Christa Landon
Christa Landon (born Christa Fuhrmann ; born September 23, 1921 in Berlin ; † November 19, 1977 in a plane crash near Madeira ) was an Austrian musician and music researcher.
Life
Landon studied piano, organ, harpsichord and theory at the Vienna Music Academy .
In 1949 she married the American musicologist HC Robbins Landon and was then employed by the Haydn Society , which her husband founded, until 1958 . From 1959 she was a freelance editor and from 1964 to 1977 research assistant for the New Schubert Edition . In this role she discovered around 50 Schubert autographs in the archive of the Vienna Men's Choir in 1969 .
She specialized in Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert and especially her edition of the Haydn piano sonatas is recognized in musicology.
In 1975 she was awarded an honorary professorship by the City of Vienna.
literature
- Alexander Rausch : Landon, married couple. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
- Christa Landon in memory. International Schubert Society Tübingen, Tübingen 1978 (56 pages).
Web links
- Literature by and about Christa Landon in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Schubert. New edition of all Works. Series VII, Dept. I, Vol. 2, Page V.
- ↑ Schubert chronicle ; Retrieved October 5, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landon, Christa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fuhrmann, Christa (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian musician and music researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th November 1977 |
| Place of death | next Madeira (plane crash) |