Eduard Weber von Webersfeld

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Adalbert Eduard Friedrich Edler von Webersfeld (* 1812 in Galicia , Austrian Empire , † November 6, 1847 in Vienna ) was an Austrian dance teacher , conductor and musician in the orchestra of Johann Strauss Sohn .

Life

Until 1835 he was a dance teacher in the Hungarian Life Guard, then until 1841 Kapellmeister in the 1st Garrison of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 1 of Carl Graf von Palfi, then briefly at the Court Theater in Vienna and until 1847 in the orchestra of Johann Strauss Son, where he played and led the balls, u. a. in the Café Dommayer in Hietzing and at the show of the soldiers of the 2nd regiment of the bourgeois guard. He also took part in the Strauss tour, u. a. in Graz , Ungarisch-Altenburg, Pest-Ofen (today Budapest ). Webersfeld was married and had four daughters and one son.

Johann Strauss Sohn dedicated the Wilhelminen-Quadrille op. 37 (1847) to Weber von Webersfeld, whose wife was Wilhelmine (nee Zerffi).

literature

  • Lucjan Kydryński: Jan Strauss , Warszawa, 1985 (in Polish)
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , ed. By S. Sadie, vol. 18, Oxford University Press, 1990
  • N. Linke, Johann Strauss (son): in personal testimonies and photo documents , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1989
  • Catalog of the portrait collection of the kuk General-Intendanz of the kk Hoftheater: at the same time a biographical auxiliary book in the field of theater and music, 2nd department, group IV, Wiener Hoftheater, Commissions-Verlag Vienna: AW Kunast, 1892, p. 458 on archive.org .
  • M. Schönherr, Karl Reinohl, Johann Strauss: a catalog raisonné, Vienna: Universal Ed., 1954
  • A. Edler Böhm von Böhmersheim, History of the Singing Association of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna , Vienna, 1908
  • H. Jäger-Sunstenau, Johann Strauss: The Waltz King and His Dynasty: Family History, Documents , Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna, 1965

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ died in February according to another source
personal data
SURNAME Webersfeld, Eduard Weber von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Webersfeld, Adalbert Eduard Friedrich Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian dance teacher, conductor and musician in the orchestra of Johann Strauss Sohn
DATE OF BIRTH 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Galicia
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1847
Place of death Vienna