Caroline Perthaler

Caroline Josefa Ottilia Perthaler (also Karoline , Karolina ; born December 15, 1810 in Klausen , † October 9, 1873  in Gries im Sellrain ) was an Austrian pianist and music teacher .

Life

Caroline Perthaler was born as the daughter of Anna von Perlath zu Kaltenburg, daughter of the mayor from Klausen, and Johann Perthaler from Kufstein in Klausen. She started playing the piano at the age of four and studied with Carl Czerny in Vienna from 1822 to 1825 . She first appeared in public when she was 15. A year later, a composition by her, a variation on a theme from Gioachino Rossini's Barber of Seville , was announced in Graz under the name Charlotte Perthaler. In 1828 she set out from Graz on a concert tour lasting several months, including Prague , Leipzig , Dresden , Berlin and Weimar . The nine-year-old Clara Wieck performed for the first time at one of her concerts in the Leipzig Gewandhaus . In Weimar Perthaler played several times for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , whom she impressed very much.

In 1831 Caroline Perthaler moved to Munich , where she worked as a sought-after piano teacher and gave concerts. In 1834 she traveled through Austria, in 1835 to Greece , where she also gave piano lessons. From around 1840 until the end of the 1860s she lived and taught in Munich again. She spent her twilight years with her brother Johann (1816–1875), who had worked as a priest (premonstratensian of Wilten Abbey with the religious name Sigismund) in Gries im Sellrain since 1835 , but had also distinguished himself as a church musician and composer.

plant

• Variations on a Theme favorit de l'opera Barbier de Seville de G. Rossini op.2 , 1826

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Perthaler, Karolina . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1870, p. 43 f. ( Digitized version ).
• E. Fässler:  Perthaler, Karoline Josefa Ottilia. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 430.
• Barbara Boisits: Perthaler, Karoline (Caroline) Josefa Ottilia. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
• Anja Herold / Marlies Nussbaumer: Perthaler, Caroline, Karoline, Karolina, Charlotte (Josefa Ottilia) . In: Lexicon of Instrumentalists , Sophie Drinker Institute.