Marie von Erdődy

Memorial plaque with portrait relief on the Beethoven memorial in Jedlesee

Countess Anna Maria (Marie) von Erdődy b. Countess von Niczky (born September 8, 1779 in Arad (Banat) , † March 17, 1837 in Munich ) was a Hungarian noblewoman and one of Ludwig van Beethoven's closest confidants .

Life

On June 6, 1796, she married Count Péter von Erdődy zu Monyorokerék and Monte Claudio, who came from the famous Erdődy family. With him she had three children, two daughters and a son. On May 3, 1798, she was given the great honor of being accepted into the Star Cross Order . In 1805 she separated from her husband and later lived in a marriage-like community with her secretary and music teacher of her children, Franz Xaver Brauchle (1783-1838), who also emerged as a composer.

Marie Erdődy was one of Beethoven's great admirers from an early age. From 1808 to 1809 the composer even lived in her large apartment at 1074 Krugerstraße in Vienna . She also owned a small estate in Jedlesee near Vienna, which today houses the Beethoven Memorial Vienna-Floridsdorf. Beethoven dedicated Marie Erdődy the two piano trios op. 70 no. 1 and op. 70 no. 2 , the cello sonatas op. 102 no. 1 and op. 102 no. 2 , which for the cellist Josef Linke emerged, and the canon lucky Happy New Year (WoO 176, 1819).

From 1815 she lived in Paucovec in Croatia , later in Padua . In December 1823 she was expelled from Austria and moved to Munich . She is buried in the Schäftlarn monastery .

literature

• Alfred Schöne , letters from Beethoven to Countess Marie Erdödy, b. Countess Niszky, and Mag. Brauchle , Leipzig 1867 ( digitized in the Google book search).
• Günther Haupt, Countess Erdödy and JX Brauchle , in: Der Bär. Breitkopf & Härtel yearbook , Leipzig 1927, pp. 70–99.
• The will of Countess Maria Erdödy, b. Niczky , ed. by Erich Krapf and Rudolf Hösch, in: Festschrift on the occasion of the ten-year existence of the "Association of Friends of the Beethoven Memorial in Floridsdorf" , Vienna 1981, p. 27 f.
• Robert Münster : Anna Maria Countess Erdödy . In: Johannes Fischer (Ed.): Munich Beethoven Studies . Katzbichler, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87397-421-5 , pp. 217-224.