Georg (Georges) Ferdinand von Petersenn (13 September 1849 – 14 November 1930) was a German music educator.
Life
Born in
Valmiera
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(Latvia), Petersenn was the youngest of five children of Heinrich von Petersenn and his wife Jutta, ''née'' Baroness von Engelhardt. After finishing secondary school, he studied law in
Dorpat
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from 1870 until 1872, then music in Würzburg and Munich until 1875. Additionally he gave private piano lessons. On 11 April 1882 he married his pupil Bertha Rindfleisch, 13 years younger than him, daughter of the respected pathologist
Eduard von Rindfleisch. The marriage produced one child: daughter Jutta (born 1888 in Berlin). In 1911 Jutta von Petersenn married
Hermann Lietz, founder of the first German .
In 1884, the couple moved to Berlin. There, Petersenn was appointed professor at the "Königl. Hochschule für Musik" (now merged with the
Universität der Künste Berlin
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). When his wife, , moved her "Landerziehungsheim für Mädchen" from
Stolper See to
Gaienhofen
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Castle on
Lake Constance
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(which was first leased and bought by Georg von Petersenn in 1905) in 1904, he taught music there. The nobleman remained associated with the school of the same name until his death in at the age of 81.
Further reading
* Berger, Manfred: "Wahre Erziehung, das heißt Herzensbildung". Bertha von Petersenn: Pionierin des ersten Deutschen Landerziehungsheims für Mädchen, in ''Zeitschrift für Erlebnispädagogik'', 24/2004,
External links
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German music educators
Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts
1849 births
1930 deaths
Latvian musicians