Agnes Street-Klindworth, née Denis-Street, was the illegitimate daughter of journalist, actor and diplomat Georg Klindworth (1798–1882) and a Danish actress named Brigitta Bartels (1786–1864). 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.
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19 October 1825 Bremem
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Died |
25 December 1906 (aged 81)
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Zodiac | Libra |
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