Altenburg (Weimar)
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 57 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 7.1 ″ E
The Altenburg is a three-story building rich in tradition and history in Weimar on Jenaer Straße. Franz Liszt lived here from 1848. Today the house is used by the Liszt School of Music Weimar .
About history
The name of the house goes back to the former field name "Die Alte Burg".
The builder, Oberstallmeister Friedrich von Seebach, had the house built in 1811 - he had accompanied Duke Karl August and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on the campaign in France in 1792.
From 1848 the house was the home of Franz Liszt and his partner Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein for 13 years .
Many famous people came and went here, such as Goethe, Bettina von Arnim , Richard Wagner , Hector Berlioz , Friedrich Hebbel , Hoffmann von Fallersleben , Peter Cornelius , Joseph Joachim and Hans von Bülow .
Important employees of the Goethe and Schiller Archives, located just across the street, such as Bernhard Suphan and from 1936 Max Hecker lived in the Altenburg; the writer Jutta Hecker was at home here for many years.
present
Today the Liszt School of Music Weimar uses the Altenburg for its own purposes. The following rooms and departments can be found here: the Franz Liszt Center (Head: Detlef Altenburg ), the Chair for the History of Jewish Music, the DFG research projects "Voice and Singing in Popular Music in the USA (1900-1960)" and "Melodic-rhythmic design of jazz improvisations. Computer-based music analysis of unanimous jazz solos", the Liszt Salon and the documentation "Liszt, the Altenburg and Europe".
literature
- La Mara (ed.): From the heyday of the Weimar Altenburg. Pictures and letters from the life of Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein , Leipzig 1906
- Jutta Hecker : The Altenburg - history of a house . Berlin 1983. ISBN 3-373-00216-8
Web links
- Information about Altenburg on the website of the Liszt School of Music Weimar (accessed on June 11, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the blurb of: Jutta Hecker: Die Altenburg - history of a house . Berlin 1983. ISBN 3-373-00216-8
- ↑ The Jazzomat Research Project , English, accessed on June 26, 2014
- ^ The Altenburg ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )