Anna von Stubenberg

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Maria Anna von Stubenberg (born August 9, 1821 in Graz ; † December 1, 1912 in Graz) was a countess, composer and benefactress.

Birthplace: Palais Stubenberg, Graz

Life

Anna von Stubenberg comes from the old Styrian noble family of the Stubenberg . Her father was a chamberlain and first lieutenant Count Gustav Adolph von Stubenberg, her mother Franziska Maria Freiherrin von Stubenberg. Anna was born in Palais Stubenberg in today's Hans-Sachs-Gasse 2 in Graz. She spent her youth in Pest ( Hungary ), where she also received her training at a private institute specializing in art, languages ​​and sport. Her musical talent was already evident here.

At the age of 19 she married Johann Remekházy von Gurahoncz, who died three years later. In 1848 they remarried. Her second husband, Count Zichy zu Zich and Vásonykeö, succumbed to a war injury a few months after their marriage, so that at the age of 27 she was a widow of two. She tried to process her grief musically, and in the years after 1848 a series of funeral marches was set up. Her third marriage with Otto Graf Buttlar Freiherr von Brandenfels (called Treusch), she concluded at the age of 51. She also survived him because her husband committed suicide in 1907.

During her lifetime she was honored as a patron of artists and scientists, as well as a patron and benefactor of socially disadvantaged people. She was a member of 86 sociable and humanitarian associations and lived according to the motto "Doing good things for poor people's children". In its obituary, the Grazer Volksblatt writes that none of the petitions received every day went unanswered.

Anna Buttlar-Stubenberg died at the age of 91 in 1912 as a result of a stroke in Graz. Only a few weeks before that, she saw the world premiere of her last work “Das Kreuz” in Graz Cathedral .

Musical work

Anna von Stubenberg's first compositions date from 1848, when she was already 27 years old. Her complete oeuvre comprises more than 160 compositions of instrumental and vocal music, including settings of poems by Heinrich Heine . Many of her works, especially those of her later creative period after 1880, are in Styrian dialect.

Vocal works (selection)

Order of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
  • D'Liab only makes you happy, Opus 124
  • The Lament, Opus 53
  • Hearty Diand'ln's g'nua, Opus 120
  • ́S advertised bouquets, Opus 106

Instrumental works (selection)

  • My star, Opus 39
  • Philomele, Opus 46

Awards

Appreciation

  • Memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Graz, which was destroyed in the Second World War. (Hans-Sachs-Gasse 2)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Barbara Boisits: Anna Countess von.xml Stubenberg, Anna Countess von. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  2. ↑ a b Stubenberg, Anna . In: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.): Austrian biographical lexicon . tape 13 . Vienna, S. 436 .
  3. ↑ Grazer Volksblatt. July 29, 1900, p. 3 , accessed March 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Grazer Volksblatt. December 2, 1912, p. 3 , accessed March 13, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Jürgen Brunner: Master's thesis, Anna Countess von Stubenberg-Buttler-Zichy. March 2017, accessed March 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stubenberg, Anna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stubenberg, Maria Anna von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian countess, composer and benefactress
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1912
Place of death Graz