Franz Schoberlechner

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Franz Schoberlechner. Lithograph by Andreas Staub , around 1830

Franz de Paula Jakob Schoberlechner (born July 21, 1797 in Vienna , † January 7, 1843 in Berlin ) was an Austrian pianist and composer .

life and work

Franz Schoberlechner was a piano student of Johann Nepomuk Hummel , whose 2nd piano concerto he premiered in 1809 at the age of twelve. He received composition lessons from Emanuel Aloys Förster . At the age of fourteen he appeared in public with a piano concerto and a symphony of his own composition. In 1814 a concert tour followed via Graz , Trieste and Bologna to Florence , where a requiem and an opera by Schoberlechner were performed. In Lucca he became court conductor of the Duchess Marie-Louise of Austria , but returned to Vienna in 1820 . His operetta The Young Uncle was premiered at the Kärntnertortheater there . Concert tours to Germany and St. Petersburg followed in 1823 , where he married the singer Sophie Dall'Occa (1807–1863) in 1824 . With her he went on longer concert tours. From 1827 his wife sang for three years at the Italian Opera in Petersburg and Franz Schoberlechner wrote the opera Il Barone di Dolzheim for her . During this time Alexander Dargomyschski also became his piano student. In 1831 the couple moved to Italy and settled in a country estate near Florence, but made other concert tours. Schoberlechner died during a stay in Berlin in 1843.

Franz Schoberlechner composed, among other things, several operas, two piano concertos, three series of variations for piano and orchestra, and solo works for piano, including a variation contribution to Anton Diabelli's collection of the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein .

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SURNAME Schoberlechner, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoberlechner, Franz de Paula Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1843
Place of death Berlin