Katharina Cibbini

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Katharina Cibbini (born Catharina Maria Leopoldina Koželuch ; baptized February 20, 1785 in Vienna , † August 12, 1858 in Reichstadt , Bohemia ) was an Austrian pianist and composer .

Life

Katharina Cibbini was a daughter of the composer Leopold Koželuch , who taught her herself. Her first demonstrable appearance took place in the spring of 1805 in the house of the wholesaler Joseph von Würth with her father's C major piano concerto. The composer and music writer Johann Friedrich Reichardt , who met her at the banker Joseph Henikstein's (1768–1838) - presumably as part of a lovers' concert like the one that Henikstein held in his house, spoke about her with great appreciation . Reichardt wrote in a letter from Vienna on February 25, 1809: "At Kozeluch's fine, educated daughter, I [last] met a very beautiful, tasteful pianist in the dear Hennigstein house." On November 12, 1809 she married him Court attorney Anton Cibbini (1774–1836), who came from South Tyrol . The couple had two children, Maria (born 1813) and Mathilde (born 1817), and lived at Dorotheergasse 1107, where the Cibbinis law firm was also located. One of Katharina Cibbini's piano students was the highly gifted Leopoldine Blahetka .

The high point of her career was probably her appearance in the concert that took place on January 17, 1819 in the university hall for the benefit of the widows and orphanage of the law faculty. Here she played the extremely virtuoso solo part of the “Variations brillantes” in C major op. 6 on the French song “La sentinelle” for piano and orchestra by Jan Václav Voříšek , which was premiered in the concert. One reviewer noted, “Mr. Worczischeck's extremely difficult composition should perhaps be performed here in Vienna - not with the exception of himself - together with Mr. Moscheles, nobody wants to perform more perfectly than Mad. Cibbini Kozeluch; She undoubtedly deserves first place among our most excellent piano players. ”In the same concert Beethoven conducted his 7th Symphony in A major op. 92 .

By these years at the latest, Katharina Cibbini should have already belonged to Beethoven's close circle of friends. The young musician Louis Schlösser , who visited Beethoven frequently in the spring of 1823, writes in his memoirs that Beethoven once asked him if he knew his Scottish songs and “with pleasure” heard “that I only recently played them with Frau von Cibbini and heard singing. 'You just go there often,' he said, 'you hear good music there, just say, I sent you. She plays my sonatas best in Vienna. ' (I was even assured that he always gave this lady his piano compositions to play first). "

On September 11, 1825, she was one of the few guests who attended the private premiere of Beethoven 's Quartet in A minor op. 132 in the hotel “Zum wilden Mann” . The violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh then wrote in Beethoven's conversation book : “The Cibbini was gone today, she didn't use an eye on him [Beethoven], why not? It's not bad. ”The publisher Maurice Schlesinger , who was also present, asked Beethoven a few days later:“ I was told you would have wanted to marry Cibbini once, is that true? ”Beethoven's answer has not been passed down. If he had such an intention, it was probably before 1809, before she married Anton Cibbini.

Archduchess Sophie of Austria was one of Katharina Cibbini's pupils, to whom she dedicated her “Deux divertissements brillants” op. 3 in 1828. She also apparently had good relationships with other members of the imperial family. So on January 14, 1831 - with an annual salary of 1200 guilders - she finally got a job as First Chamberlain of Princess Maria Anna of Savoy , who was married to Crown Prince Ferdinand I and in 1835 became Empress of Austria. She apparently retained this position until her death.

Works without opus number

  • Variations for piano, Vienna around 1822.
  • Divertissement for piano, Vienna 1822.
  • Polonaise for piano, Vienna 1822.
  • XXV Valses… for piano, Vienna around 1822.
  • Polonaise for piano, Vienna 1825.
  • Première fantaisie for piano, Vienna 1825.
  • Impromptu in E flat major for piano, Vienna no year

Works with opus number

  • Introduction et variations brillantes sur un thème de Caraffa for piano op.2, Vienna 1828.
  • Deux divertissements brillants et d'un style élégant… sur des motifs favoris… for piano op. 3, Vienna 1828.
  • Marche et Trio for piano op.4, Vienna undated
  • Introduction et variations in E flat major for piano op.5, Vienna 1830.
  • Six valses for piano op. 6, Vienna 1830.
  • Impromptu sur un thème de Mad.Clary di Zentner for piano op.7, Vienna no year
  • Introduction et polonaise for piano op.8, Vienna 1833.
  • Seize valses for piano op.9 , Vienna 1833.
  • La rimembranza. Grand trio concertant sur des motifs favoris for two pianos and violoncello op.10 , Vienna 1834.

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Cibbini, Katherina . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 367 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Rudolf Müller:  Koscheluch, Katharina . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 741.
  • Michaela Krucsay: "I hope in the Cibbini like an angel". Between art and the imperial court. In: Elena Ostleitner, Gabriele Dorffner (ed.): "An inexhaustible wealth of ideas ...". Female composers in Mozart's time (= Frauentöne , Volume 6). Vier-Viertel-Verlag, Strasshof et al. 2006, ISBN 3-902141-25-5 , pp. 53-62.
  • Michaela Krucsay: Katharina Cibbini-Koželuch. Musician and patroness (= women's tones , volume 7). Vier-Viertel-Verlag, Strasshof et al. 2008, ISBN 3-902141-32-8 .
  • Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Eds.) A. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 .
  • Michaela Krucsay: Katharina Cibbini-Koželuch. A life between music and power. In: Sarah Chaker (Ed.): Making women audible and visible. 20 years “Woman and Music” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502987-0-3 , pp. 165–178.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , Vol. 7, No. 29 of April 17, 1805, Col. 470.
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Vertraute Letters written on a trip to Vienna and the Austrian States at the end of 1808 and at the beginning of 1809 , Amsterdam 1810, Volume 1, p. 444.
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , Vol. 21, No. 8 of February 24, 1819, Col. 127.
  4. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz, Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , p. 809.
  5. ↑ Ludwig van Beethoven's conversation books , Volume 8, ed. by Karl-Heinz Köhler and Grita Herre, Leipzig 1981, p. 130.
  6. ↑ Ibid., P. 164.
personal data
SURNAME Cibbini, Catherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koželuch, Catharina Maria Leopoldina; Cibbini-Kozeluch, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH baptized February 20, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1858
Place of death Reichstadt , Bohemia