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Marie Jahoda über ihren Bruder Fritz Jahoda I seem to remember the day Fritz [Jahoda] was born, but perhaps it is only a family story told to me later. We three are in a room most distant from my parents' bedroom Edi [Jahoda] and Rosi [Kuerti, née Jahoda] discuss the forthcoming event: if it is another girl we tear its arms and legs off and throw it out of the window. Then the door opens and Uncle Doctor proudly announces as if it were an his doing: children, I have brought you a brother. Even for very small children, mother's desires, moods -good and bad ones - and preferences were never a secret. To begin with the youngest was her [i.e. Betty Jahoda, née Propst] favourite, particularly after his musical gift became obvious. At the age of 4 he sat down at the grand piano and played with both hands Die Mühle im Schwarzwald,1 a tune that the then Kinderfräulein had practised ad nauseam. When the little boy played it without instruction it acquired a transcendent musical quality. [...] The delight of my parents was boundless. [...] Fritz was my early playmate. As soon as I went to school, playing school with me as the teacher became a favourite pastime. But soon his musical gift drew him away from me. I see a scene - I do not know whether it really happened, or whether I made it up - with me sitting under the grand piano, desolate; he playing and the rest of the family standing admiringly around him. [...] When Lotte [Lazarsfeld, married Bailyn] was about 5 or so, Fritz and I organised and ran a course for about a dozen children aged 5-8 in music appreciation. Lotte and Franz [Jahoda] participated together with children of families we knew. I cannot remember whether we did it for love only, or also for money; nor how the idea for it arose. Perhaps because I had learned so much from Fritz; before he went to an opera, he went over the score with me, playing the motifs as various instruments picked them up, explaining, etc. In any case, this is what happened; we concentrated on Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin.2 I explained that music could make you feel different things, Fritz played examples. Every composer had his own language; after a while, they could identify the composer of an unknown typical piece. It was most enjoyable for Fritz and me. [...]
Marie
Jahoda Albu: Reconstructions. [Keymer,
Sussex: Published by the author] 1996, S. 11, 18, 44-45.
1 Die
Mühle im Schwarzwald: Idyll für Piano von Richard Eilenberg
(1848-1925), opus 52. Anmerkung
Reinhard Müller.
2 Aufzählung
klassischer Komponisten und Pianisten: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Salzburg 1756 - Wien 1791), Franz Schubert (Lichtental [zu Wien]
1797 - Wien 1828), Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn 1770 - Wien 1827)
und Frédéric Chopin (Żelazowa-Wola bei Warschau 1810 - Paris
1849). Anmerkung
Reinhard Müller.
© Reinhard Müller -- Graz, im Oktober 2006 |
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