Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté

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Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (born Sonia Fridman-Kotschewskaja) was a Russian-born composer and virtuoso pianist and violinist.

Born in Moscow on December 24, 1901, Eckhardt-Gramatté studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where her teachers included Alfred Brun and Guillaume Rémy for violin, S. Chenée for piano, and Vincent d'Indy and Camille Chevillard for composition. She also embarked on several concert tours of Western Europe, on which she performed her own works. In 1920, she married the painter Walter Gramatté in Berlin. Following Grammaté's death in 1929, she pursued further lessons in composition with Max Trapp in Berlin. In 1934, she married the journalist and art historian Ferdinand Eckhardt and together they moved to Vienna. She dedicated herself exclusively to composition after 1935. The couple relocated again to Winnipeg in 1953. Eckhardt-Gramatté died on December 2, 1974 in Stuttgart, as a result of an accident. Her legacy is preserved through the work of the Eckhardt-Grammaté Foundation.

Eckhardt-Gramatté's compositions included: a symphony; a concerto for orchestra; a triple concerto for trumpet, clarinet, bassoon, strings, and timpani; three piano concertos; two violin concertos; a piece for two pianos and orchestra; a bassoon concerto; various chamber works; as well as numerous instrumental solos for piano and violin.

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