ANNA JOHANNE SCHYTTE, ALSO KNOWN AS ANNA
JUTTA SCHYTTE (COPENHAGEN, 20 NOVEMBER, 1877 – COPENHAGEN, 16 MARCH, 1953)
Schytte was born in Copenhagen. Her father and first
music teacher was the composer Ludwig Schytte. Later, she studied music with
Ove Christensen, Franz Neruda and Julius Rontgen in the Netherlands, and with
Alfred Reisenauer and Ignaz Friedman in Germany.
Schytte gave piano performances in Amsterdam, Denmark
(as the soloist in her father’s piano concerto), Germany (at the Leipzig
Gewandhaus under conductor Arthur Nikisch), London, Paris (at the Salle Pleyel)
and Stockholm. She performed with the Brussels Quartet and the Bohemian String
Quartet, and taught in Copenhagen. She recorded her father’s Berceuse op. 26,
Nr. 7, for Welte Mignon.
Schytte composed at least one piece for piano,
Capriccietto, A Study in Staccato. Both her father and Ignaz Friedman dedicated
compositions to her: Four Preludes, Opus 61 by Friedmann, and Petit Preludes,
Opus 65 by Ludwig Schytte.
TRACKLIST
970 WELTE-MIGNON SCHYTTE – Berceuse (Cradle Song) Op.
26, No. 7, G
975 WELTE-MIGNON SJOGREN – Fantasiestück (Fantasy
Piece), Ab: On the Sea
980 WELTE-MIGNON TCHAIKOVSKY – Romance, Op. 5, f
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