Background
She was born on 19 October 1825 in Bremen, Germany.
She was born on 19 October 1825 in Bremen, Germany.
She arrived in Weimar in 1853, as one of Peter Cornelius" pupils for harmony. Shortly after she began having piano lessons with Franz Liszt, whom she befriended and maintained a vast correspondence with between the spring of 1855 and 1861, when he finally took up residence in Rome. Her third child was named Fernande (16 December 1856 – 23 August 1857), daughter of the composer and revolutionary activist Ferdinand Lassalle.
She died in the surroundings of Paris on 25 December 1906 at the age of 81.