Julie Weber from Webenau

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Julie Weber, Edle von Webenau , née Baroni von Cavalcabò (also Julia von Webenau or Julia Baroni von Cavalcabò ), later married de Britto (born October 16, 1813 in Lemberg , Austrian Empire , † July 2, 1887 in Graz ) was an Austrian Pianist and composer .

Life

Adolf Baroni-Cavalcabò, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber

Julie was a daughter of the main government council member Ludwig Cajetan Baroni-Cavalcabò (1765-1847) and the amateur singer Josephine Baroni-Cavalcabò (1788-1860). She had a sister Laura, married Pawlikowska (1810-1892). In Lemberg she was a student of Mozart's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart . Her mother Josephine Baroni-Cavalcabò became his lover and sole heir. She also had a brother, Adolf Baroni-Cavalcabò (1809–1847).

Robert Schumann dedicated his Humoresque op. 20 to Julie in 1839. He had already met her in Leipzig in 1835 and renewed his acquaintance in Vienna. Originally he wanted to dedicate the Arabesque op. 18 to her. On March 13, 1839, he wrote to his bride Clara Wieck : “The 'arabesque' was given to the Webenau, the 'flower piece' to the Serre , the 'humoresque' - nobody; Strange, I also think of something in my dedications, which should always have a connection with the origin, and could not find anyone, but the world hardly understands the subtleties. "

Julie von Webenau dedicated the composition L'Adieu et le Retour to Schumann . Morceaux de Fantaisie pour Pianoforte, Op. 25, published in March 1840 by the Leipzig publishing house Kistner . According to a review by Schumann in his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1836/37, the names of all composers could easily be written on a "rose leaf". That had to do with the social ostracism of the artistically creative woman and her gender role in general.

family

Laura Pawlikowska b. Baroni-Cavalcabò, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber

On March 29, 1838, in Lemberg, she married the lawyer Wilhelm Weber Edler von Webenau (1796–1841), Appellationsrat and member of the legislative court commission in Vienna , with whom she moved to Vienna that same year. Her son was the imperial and royal embassy counselor in Constantinople Arthur Weber Edler von Webenau. Her husband died on August 16, 1841.

In July 1842 she married the Brazilian Legation Secretary Dr. Johann Alois Ritter by Britto. The couple had two daughters and a son. In 1877 her second husband died and Julie lived with her sister Laura Pawlikowska until her death.

Laura Pawlikowska, b. Countess Baroni-Cavalcabò (1810-1892), was the wife of the art collector Johann Gualbert Ritter von Pawlikowsky (1792-1852).

Her granddaughter was the composer Vilma von Webenau .

Works

  • op. 1 - Variation for piano (May 1830)
  • op. 2 - Caprice for piano No. 1
  • op. 3 - Piano Sonata in E flat major, published by Breitkopf & Härtel , Leipzig, 1830
  • op. 4 - Fantasy in C minor for piano
  • op.5 - Introduction et Rondeau for piano (December 1830)
  • op. 6 - The grave rose for bass, baritone or alto ("You grave rose rooted well"), poem by Anastasius Grün from the leaves of love (November 1837)
  • op.8 - Allegro di Bravura for piano (July 1834)
  • op. 9 - Farewell! , Poem by Heinrich Heine ("Beautiful cradle of my sorrows"), dedicated to the singer Francilla Pixis (December 1836)
  • op. 10 - Three German songs , published by Friedrich Hofmeister , Leipzig 1836
The bleacher night song ("waves blinked through the night") by Robert Reinick
The Elf Queen (“What is like us elves under the moon”) by Friedrich von Matthisson
Echoes ("Forever yours!") By Friedrich von Matthisson
  • op. 11 - The Unnamed , poem by Johann Ludwig Uhland ("On the summit of a mountain") (May 1838)
  • op.12 - Capriccio No. 2 in A major for piano, dedicated to Sigismund Thalberg (February 1837)
  • op. 13 - Reiterlied for bass or baritone ("We walk through life") (May 1837)
  • op. 15 - Dispute and Atonement , duet for soprano and bass (“Schnür 'Dein Bund because for hiking”), text by Karl Simrock (November 1837)
  • op. 16 - Il rimprovero , song in A flat minor, text by Iacopo Vittorelli , self-published, undated
  • op. 17 - It sails gently on silver waves , text by Anastasius Grün (from the leaves of love ) (November 1838)
  • op.18 - Caprice for piano No. 3 (February 1838), published by Pietro Mechetti quondam Carlo, Vienna 1838
  • op.19 - Fantasy in E minor for piano, published by Artaria , Vienna 1838
  • op. 21 - The young man and the nymph ("He stood there pensively, at the hot spring") (April 1838)
  • op. 22 - Why? , Lied in D flat major, text by Ludwig Bechstein (“You ask why only complaints”), published by Anton Diabelli , Vienna 1838
  • op. 24 - To the Swallows (August 1842)
Airy fellows
I lay in the forest
  • op. 25 - L'Adieu et le Retour. Morceaux de Fantaisie pour Pianoforte , dedicated to Robert Schumann (March 1840)
  • op. 26 - Au Bord du Lac , Morceau de Salon (May 1843)
  • op. 27 - Nocturne (October 1843)
  • op. 28 - Morceaux de Salon (September 1844)
  • op. 29 - Barcarolle for piano
  • op. 30 Two songs, published by AO Witzendorf, Vienna, undated
The Modest , text by Hermann Kletke
Faithful love , lyricist anonymized ("N. B ... n")
  • Shepherd's lament , poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • La Chasse
  • Own railway (August 1840)
  • Your picture , text by Franz Freiherr von Dingelstedt (November 1851)
  • Ask the moon , cycle of four songs Julie of Webenaus ( Why? , Resteigne train , The Modest , The Lead Cherin Night Song ), orchestrated by Catherine Blassnigg, Monika Ciernia, Philipp Hribernig and Stefano Penzo (UA Vienna in 2013 by the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the University of Economics , Lt. George Jackson).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letters from Clara and Robert Schumann , Vol. II: September 1838 to June 1839 , ed. by Anja Mühlenweg (= Schumann Letter Edition , Series I, Volume 5), Cologne: Dohr, 2013, p. 342
  2. ↑ See Hofmeister's musical monthly report , Leipzig, March 1840, p. 37 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Cf. Wiener Zeitung , No. 229 of August 20, 1841, p. 1715: “Dies zu Wien. August 16. Mr. Wilhelm Edler v. Webenau, kk Ni. Oest. Appellationsrath and assessor of the kk Hof-Commission in judicial-legal matters, old 45 years, in the small Schulenstrasse No. 850, am Blutbruch. "( Digitalisat )

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personal data
SURNAME Webenau, Julie Weber from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baroni-Cavalcabò, Julie; de Britto, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1887
Place of death Graz