Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein

Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein and her daughter Flora, portrayed by Friedrich von Amerling , 1833

Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1841

Henriette Freifrau von Pereira-Arnstein , born von Arnstein (born November 29, 1780 in Berlin , † May 13, 1859 in Vienna ), was the pianist and hostess of a Viennese salon.

family

She was the daughter of the Viennese pianist and salonnière Fanny Arnstein and Nathan Arnstein (1748–1838), a wealthy banker. She received her pianistic training from Muzio Clementi and from the piano maker Andreas Streicher . She made her first appearances there and in the Viennese salons in 1808 and 1809.

marriage

In 1802 Henriette von Arnstein married the banker Heinrich Freiherr von Pereira (1773-1835), whom her parents Fanny and Nathan Arnstein had already adopted. The couple had three sons (including Ludwig von Pereira-Arnstein 1803-1859) and a daughter. The Pereira couple converted from Judaism to Catholicism.

salon

After her mother's death, Henriette Pereira continued the tradition of the literary-musical salon introduced by her mother on a smaller scale. Every week she organized a musical soirée in which she herself participated as a pianist. She was the host of important artists such as Beethoven , Liszt , Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Grillparzer , Stifter , Brentano and Theodor Körner , who wrote the lyre and sword song cycle for them . She was in contact with the late Joseph Haydn .

In line with family tradition, she committed herself to charity and was the patroness of the Marienspital in Baden near Vienna .

In 1864, Henriettenplatz in Vienna's Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th district) was named after her.

Trivia

Henriette Pereira and her salon are treated in Peter Hack's poem The Dying Singer . In it she appears to the dying Theodor Körner and gives him a dissolute patriotic speech.

Letters

• Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy , yours forever. Letters to Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein , ed. by Wolfgang Dinglinger and Rudolf Elvers , Hanover: Wehrhahn-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86525-133-6

literature

• Czeike:  Henriette Pereira-Arnstein. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 414 f. (Direct links on p. 414 , p. 415 ).
• Johann Friedrich Reichardt : Familiar letters , written on a trip to Vienna and the Austrian states at the end of 1808 and beginning of 1809, included. and ext. by Gustav Gugitz, 2 vols. (= Memories from Old Austria 16), Munich 1915.
• Hilde Spiel : Fanny von Arnstein or The Emancipation. A woman's life at the turn of the ages 1758-1818 . New edition Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 1989, ISBN 3-596-22131-5 .
• Verena von der Heyden-Rynsch: European salons. Highlights of a lost female culture . Artemis & Winkler, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7608-1942-7 .
• Georg Gaugusch : 'Whoever was. The Jewish upper middle class in Vienna 1800-1938 '. Amalthea, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85002-750-2 .

Web links

Commons : Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lexicon article "Pereira, Henriette" by the Sophie Drinker Institute