Fanny Hünerwadel

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Fanny Hünerwadel (1854)
Fanny Hünerwadel (around 1850)

Fanny Hünerwadel (born January 26, 1826 in Lenzburg ; † April 27, 1854 in Rome ) was a Swiss composer from Lenzburg.

Fanny Hünerwadel was entitled to live in Lenzburg and came from a long-established family of this city. She was the oldest child of the doctor Johann Friedrich Hünerwadel and Regula Speerli, who were both avid music lovers.
After receiving instruction from her mother, Hünerwadel learned to play the piano in Lenzburg from Philipp Tietz , Joseph Breitenbach and Ludwig Kurz and was a member of the local choral society. From 1846 she studied piano, singing, music theory and composition with Hans Nägeli and with Wagner friend Alexander Müller in Zurich. During her time in Zurich she made the acquaintance of Johann W. Kalliwoda , Richard Wagner, Ferdinand Huber , Franz Liszt , Franz Abt , Wilhelm Baumgartner and Henri Vieuxtemps .

From 1849 she made public appearances as a singer and pianist, for example in benefit concerts by her teacher Müller, at Wagner concerts and at the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft in Zurich. She sang in 1851 at the inauguration of the new Lenzburg organ. Also in 1851 she visited Paris and London. In 1852 she played Johann Nepomuk Hummel's “Rondo brilliant” in a subscription concert of the Zurich General Music Society, from which today's Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich emerged . In 1853 she traveled to Florence and Rome for further training.

In Florence she took singing lessons from Romani. In Rome in 1853 she was a guest of the artist families Corrodi and Imhof and took lessons from the singing teacher Parisotti. Hünerwadel died of typhus on April 27, 1854 in Rome and was buried there on April 30. Six of Hünerwadel's seven surviving piano songs were published posthumously (in 1854).

Her great-nephew was the composer, painter and publicist Peter Mieg (1906–1990).

literature

in archives :

  • Peter Mieg Foundation in Lenzburg (partial estate)
  • “Introduction, Variations & Rondo”, piano composition: in the FMF (Women's Music Forum) in Bern.

Other :

  • Biographisches Lexikon des Aargau, 1803–1957, ( 1958 ): p. 371 f.
  • Répertoire International des Sources Musicales / Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik: Repertory of 19th century Swiss composers (in preparation).
  • Werner Breig , From Alexander Müller to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt: The musical album by the Swiss singer, pianist and composer Fanny Hünerwadel , in: Musical sources - sources on music history. Festschrift for Martin Staehelin for his 65th birthday , ed. by Ulrich Konrad, Göttingen 2002, pp. 405-423
  • The music in the past and present , personal 9, 22003, 529 f.
  • Lenzburger Neujahrsblätter (various years)

Discography

  • MGB CD 6153: "Richard Wagner and his Zurich composer friends" . Songs "Morgenlied" and "Im Frühling" by Fanny Hünerwadel.

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personal data
SURNAME Hünerwadel, Fanny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenzburg
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1854
Place of death Rome