ELLA JONAS-STOCKHAUSEN (ALSO: ELLA
JONAS, ELLA STOCKHAUSEN) (DORTMUND, 1 OCTOBER 1883 -BERLIN, 6 FEBRUARY 1967)
From around 1900, Ellas Jonas-Stockhausen studied
piano with the pianist and music teacher Wilhelm Bopp at the Grand Ducal
Academy of Music in Mannheim, founded in 1899. She later studied in Berlin,
probably at the Stern Conservatory.
After her studies in 1904/05, she began her career as
a concert pianist and sought-after chamber music partner. She made her debut on
20 January 1905 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of
August Scharrer with the First Piano Concerto by Peter I. Tchaikovsky and with
the Piano Concerto in E major, op. 12 by Eugène d’Albert.
From 1907 at the latest, she worked as a piano
teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. Around 1911, she
founded a piano trio that existed until about 1929. The line-up included the
violinist Pálma von Pászthory, later replaced by Edith von Voigtländer, and the
cellist Eugenie Stoltz-Premyslav or Lotte Hegyesi.
Ella Jonas-Stockhausen was persecuted during the Nazi
era because of her Jewish origins and survived this period in Berlin. Her last
verifiable address in Berlin (Wilmersdorf) was Duisburger Str. 4. She lived
there from 1918 with her husband, the chemist Ferdinand Stockhausen
(1875–1950), a brother of Hans Stockhausen. In 1935, she was banned from
performing by the Reich Music Chamber due to the Nuremberg Race Laws. Her
husband’s extensive art collection, which he was forced to leave to Herman
Göring in his will, saved her life and kept her from being sent to a
concentration camp – she survived in seclusion in her Berlin apartment. In
1943, the art collection was taken to Silesia to protect it from bombing and is
now considered lost. In 1947, Ella Jonas-Stockhausen resumed her concert
activities, including at RIAS and Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk.
TRACKLIST
858 CHOPIN – Waltz, e (Posthumous)
859 JENSEN – Irrlichter (Will-o-the-Wisp), Op. 17,
No. 11, b
860 SAPELLNIKOFF – Gavotte, Op. 4, No. 2, E
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