Franz Brunsvik

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Count Franz Brunsvik, painting by Heinrich Thugut, around 1830 (Vienna, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde )

Count Franz Brunsvik de Korompa (born September 25, 1777 in Pressburg , † October 23, 1849 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian nobleman, cellist and theater entrepreneur.

Life

Brunsvik comes from an old Hungarian noble family. His uncle was Count Joseph Brunswick (* 1750, † 1827), Tavernicus (treasurer?) At the Hungarian royal court and chief clan of Pest County , on whose estate in Unterkrupa the Brunsvik children often spent the summer months. His father was Count Anton II. Brunsvik (1745–1793), his mother Countess Elisabeth Brunsvik geb. Freiin Wankel von Seeberg (1752-1830). Therese Brunsvik , Josephine Brunsvik and Karoline Brunsvik were his sisters.

The family lived mainly in Ofen , in a palace on the Schlossberg, above the town. It had a well-known gallery with 300 valuable paintings, including works by Leonardo da Vinci , Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt . The town house also had an extensive library with around 6,000 books and a mineral cabinet.

Brunsvik often stayed in Vienna, where his sister Josephine had lived in Palais Deym at Rotheturmstrasse 691 since they married in 1799. He played the violoncello excellently and met Ludwig van Beethoven through his sisters in autumn 1799  . He soon became one of his closest friends; both spoke on terms. Their friendship was particularly intense from 1806 to 1812. During this time Beethoven dedicated two of his most important piano works to the Count: the Sonata in F minor op. 57 (first edition 1807), the so-called Appassionata , and the Fantasy in B major op. 77 (1810).

In 1809 Brunsvik became co-administrator of the family estate in Martonvásár , but remained in contact with Beethoven by letter until 1814. In 1819 he took over the management of the Pest theater, in 1823 he married the pianist Sidonie Justh (1801–1866).

The couple's circle of friends included the pianist and composer Stephen Heller . On August 25, 1838, the Brunsvik couple listened to the debut of the seven-year-old violinist Joseph Joachim , which he gave in the Pest Adelskasino, and subsequently encouraged him.

literature

  • Anonymous: Beethoven's letters from Teplitz to Franz von Brunsvik and Amalie Sebald . In: Die Grenzboten , vol. 18 (1859), 1st semester, 1st volume, pp. 236–240.
  • La Mara : Beethoven and the Brunsviks. Siegel, Leipzig 1920 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Stephan Ley : Beethoven and the Count's Brunsvik family. In: Atlantis , Vol. 12 (1940), Issue 3, pp. 101-104.
  • Mária Hornyák: Ferenc Brunszvik, a friend of Beethoven. In: Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae , Vol. 32 (1990), pp. 225-233 ( JSTOR 902256 ).
  • Ulrich Noering: Beethoven and Hungary . 2nd Edition. TóKa-PR-System, Budapest 1995, ISBN 9-6304-169-5 .
  • Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Eds.) A. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , p. 137 f.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Letter to Count Franz Brunsvik from 1811. Facsimile and commentary, ed. by Michael Ladenburger (= annual editions of the Beethoven-Haus association , issue 29). Beethoven-Haus, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-88188-134-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Tschischka: Art and antiquity in the Austrian imperial state . Vienna 1836, pp. 278–279 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Franz Schams: Complete description of the royal freyen main city of oven in Ungern . Ofen 1822, pp. 328–346 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ See Rudolf Schütz: Stephen Heller. An artist's life . Leipzig 1911, p. 5 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ^ Website about Joseph Joachim
personal data
SURNAME Brunsvik, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunsvik de Korompa, Count Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian nobleman, cellist and theater entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1849
Place of death Vienna