Franz Xaver Schlechta from Wschehrd

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Franz Xaver Schlechta von Wschehrd (also Wssehrd , Czech František Xaver Šlechta ze Všehrd ) (born October 20, 1796 in Písek / Böhmen ; † March 23, 1875 in Vienna ) was an Imperial and Royal civil servant and poet .

Life

Schlechta attended the Konvikt in Kremsmünster Abbey (“Philosophical Years”) from 1811–13 and the one in Vienna from 1813–17, where he studied law at the university from 1814 to 1818 and then obtained the title of Councilor as an official in the Ministry of Finance.

Because of his places of study, he was well known to various circles of friends of Franz Schubert , such as the one around the Spaun brothers in Linz and Franz von Schober . In the years after 1820 Schlechta, even if he also produced himself as a tenor singer at the Schubertiade , took part in their meetings a little less, and one looks in vain for his portrait on Moritz von Schwind's sepia drawing of a Schubertiade.

Schlechta's poem on Schubert as the creator of the (lost) Prometheus cantata D 451, which the poet had participated in the premiere, was published in the Wiener Theaterzeitung in 1817 , and is Schubert's first public appreciation . a. of his stage works.

From 1819 Schlechta was also a member of the Ludlamshöhle . In 1821 he married and then partially hosted sociable music-making by friends. After trying his hand at a drama in 1820 ( The Green Coat of Venice , world premiere at the Theater an der Wien ), his “Minnespiel” Cimburga von Masovien was premiered in the Burgtheater in 1825 . In 1826 he published another "Minnespiel", Ernst der Eiserne .

Between 1815 and 1828 Schubert set six of his poems to music. These were also Schlechta's most productive years as a poet. In 1828 he wrote a lyrical obituary and in 1840 a (lost) poem on Schubert, and he also took part in the unveiling of Carl Kundmann's Schubert monument (1872) in Vienna's city park .

The stepson of Schubert's brother Ignaz, Heinrich Hollpein, portrayed Schlechta in 1835.

In 1824 Schlechta published an anthology of his poems for the first time (new edition 1828). Towards the end of his life his daughter persuaded him again to publish his poems, the wording of which was changed many times by the author and which only came out in 1876 under the title Ephemeral (preface: Heinrich Laube ).

corrections

Both in Constant von Wurzbach's and in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon , the life data are sometimes incorrectly given. The Parte and Schlechtas grave memorial contain the correct dates. He was buried in an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

The assumption that Schubert set seven of Schlechta's poems to music (cf. the subtitle in Carmen Ottner) is based on the mistyping of Schubert's song D 458 ("From Diego Manazares. Ilmerine"). Rather, this poem comes from Ernestine von Krosigk from her story Diego Manzanares , where Almerine sings it to the guitar. This story was published in the paperback Egeria , Berlin 1805.

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  1. ↑ grave site Franz Schlechta of Weschred , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 1, no. 22,.
personal data
SURNAME Schlechta von Wschehrd, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šlechta ze Všehrd, František Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil servant and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Písek
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1875
Place of death Vienna