New documents have appeared!

They can be found in:

 

Following in the footsteps of Lise Cristiani,

 

documents compiled and presented by Waldemar Kamer

with a foreword by Sol Gabetta. Digital book to be published in 2025/26 with the support of the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre for French Romantic Music.

Table of Contents

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Foreword by Sol Gabetta.
Prologue: A letter in a bottle cast into the sea…

 

1 Chronology of the life of Lise Cristiani.

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2 Biographical notes by François-Joseph Fétis, Hermann Mendel, Edmund van der Straeten, Hugo Riemann, and others.
Promotional article by Carl Gaillard, Berlin, 1846.

 

3 Birth and legitimization certificates.
Reconstructed family tree of the Barbier family.
Three portraits of women.

 

4 Posters and programs from Lise Cristiani’s concerts.
A short presentation of the “eclectic concerts” of touring virtuosos.

 

5 Her concert repertoire: among 24 pieces, many by Batta and Offenbach, few by Schubert, and none by Mendelssohn.

 

6 Works dedicated to Lise Cristiani: Felix Mendelssohn, Jacques Offenbach, as well as Charles Baudiot, Arnaud Dancla, and others.

 

7 Reviews and recollections of her concerts:

• In the press: A selection of about one hundred articles in French, English, German, Danish, Russian, etc.

• In correspondence: Letter from Eduard Grube to Karl Ernst von Baer (Dorpat/Tartu, Estonia, 1847); the Decembrist Ivan Ivanovich Pushchin (Tara/Tomsk, 1849); excerpts from the letters of Piotr N. Svistounov (Tobolsk, 1850).

• In diaries and memoirs: Lucy Atkinson (1849); Nicolai Markevitch (1852); Leo Tolstoy, Journal, Pyatigorsk, July 18, 1853; Maria Dmitrievna Frantseva, Memories of Life in Tobolsk in 1850 (1888); Charles Dancla, Notes and Memories of His Life in Paris, 1840–50 (1893); Wilhelm J. von Wasielewski, Memoirs of the Musical Life in Leipzig (1897).

 

8 Accounts of her travels:

• The major article by Alexandre Barbier (1860):
  Presentation and transcription of “Journey of a Stradivarius through Siberia, Kamchatka, and the Caucasus (1848–1853)”, Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, September 26–27, 1860. Analysis and notes.

• Dubious sources (1863–1892):
  “Journey through Eastern Siberia. Notes from the Correspondence of an Artist (Mlle Lise Cristiani)”, Le Tour du Monde (1863);
  “The Buryats Escorting Mlle Lise Cristiani” in Les Races humaines by Louis Figuier (1872);
  “Lise Cristiani” in Les Grandes voyageuses by Marie Dronsart (1892).

• Contemporary Russian sources:
  Diary of Bernhard V. Struve during the 1849 expedition;
  his article in Le Messager russe (1888); his Memoirs (1889);
  account by B. Milioutine in Istoritcheski Vestnik (1888), etc.

 

9 Newly discovered letters and album entries by Lise Cristiani:
– Transcriptions of seven autograph letters and five album pages.
– Analyses and notes.

 

Afterword: In Search of Lise Cristiani.

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Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Discography, and Filmography,
Index of Names.

 

In the Footsteps of Lise Cristiani — documents compiled and presented by Waldemar Kamer with a foreword by Sol Gabetta.

 

Digital book to be published in 2025/26 with the support of the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française.