Felicitas Blangini-Klenze

Felicitas Blangini-Klenze (born July 10, 1794 in Turin ; † November 9, 1844 in Munich ; born Felicitas Blangini ) was a singer at the court of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Kassel Theater, sister of the then famous composer and musician Felix Blangini and wife of Leo from Klenze .

She grew up in Paris , where she trained in singing. From 1810 to 1813 she was chamber singer at the court of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Kassel Theater, which was directed by her brother Felix Blangini.

In Kassel she met her future husband Leo Klenze and married him on August 28, 1813.

With the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte , Felicitas and Leo Klenze fled to Munich together with Felix Blangini at the end of October 1813 . Here Felix Blangini could turn to King Maximilian I Joseph von Wittelsbach , because he had held the position of Bavarian Kapellmeister since 1805 . In addition, his sister Therese Blangini had been a Bavarian chamber singer from 1804 and personal singing teacher of the Bavarian Electress Karoline von Baden , from 1806 Queen Karoline of Bavaria.

Since there were no career prospects for Klenze in Munich, Felicitas and Leo Klenze moved on to Paris , where their first son Hippolyt was born on July 21, 1814. After Klenze was hired as a private architect by the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig I , the family finally moved to Munich.

Felicitas lived the following years at the side of Leo von Klenze. She died on November 9, 1844 at the age of only 50 and is buried next to her husband in the Altes Südfriedhof in Munich.

literature

• Daniela Crescenzio : Italian Walks in Munich, Volume III - Italian Women in Munich , IT-INERARIO, Rosenheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-9813046-6-4 .