Friedrich Wranitzky

Friedrich Wranitzky (born May 14, 1798 in Vienna , † December 11, 1839 in Dresden ) was an Austrian cellist .

biography

Friedrich Wranitzky was the son of Prince Lobkowitz's Kapellmeister Anton Wranitzky and a student of Anton Kraft . From 1823 he worked as a cellist in the orchestra of the Kärntnertortheater . In May 1824 he organized an academy in which Franz Schubert's music was performed. Wranitzky later went to Berlin, where he was engaged as a cellist at the Königstädter Theater . From June 1839 he found himself in Dresden , where he fell into debt, without a permanent job and threatened with deportation, on December 10, 1839, and fell into the Elbe . He was rescued but died the next day. Wranitzky's widow Maria, b. Speil von Ostheim married the violin and lute maker Anton Stauffer (1805–1871) on February 22, 1841 .

literature

Michael Lorenz , Studies on the Schubert Circle , Phil. Diss., University of Vienna, 2001.

Individual evidence

↑ Waidelich, Till Gerrit (ed.), Schubert documents, publications by the Schubert Institute , Schneider, Vol. 10/1, texts, Tutzing 1993, 207 a. 210f.

personal data
SURNAME	Wranitzky, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian cellist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1839
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Waidelich, Till Gerrit (ed.), Schubert documents, publications by the Schubert Institute , Schneider, Vol. 10/1, texts, Tutzing 1993, 207 a. 210f.