Leopold von Sonnleithner

Leopold von Sonnleithner

Leopold Andreas Ignaz Sonnleithner , from 1828 Leopold Edler von Sonnleithner (born November 15, 1797 in Vienna ; †  March 3, 1873 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer and a well-known personality on the Viennese music scene.

family

Leopold von Sonnleithner was a grandson of the composer Christoph Sonnleithner and son of Ignaz von Sonnleithner . His father was raised to the Austrian nobility on April 20, 1828 in Vienna with a diploma from June 14, 1828 ; with him also his son Leopold.

On May 6, 1828, he married the wholesaler daughter Louise Augusta Gosmar, who was born in Hamburg (August 11, 1803 - June 7, 1850).

Life

Sonnleithner, who received his doctorate in law on May 4, 1819, was court attorney , court judge of the Schottenstift , director and lawyer of the "Österreichische Sparcasse".

As a private citizen, like his father, he was an active member of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna and a committed music collector. He was a personal friend and patron of the Viennese composers Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert and his cousin, the playwright Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872). Schubert ( D 921) and Grillparzer (text) dedicated their serenade “ Hesitatingly quiet ” to his wife Louise.

Sonnleithner was buried in 1873 in the Matzleinsdorf cemetery in the 5th district of Margareten in Vienna (today the cemetery is in the 10th district of Favoriten ).

His estate as a music collector is now in the archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

Works

• About Mozart's operas from his early youth , in: Cäcilia , issue 94/1845 and issue 98/1846, Schott publishing house, Mainz 1845/1846
• Beethoven and Paër . A correction , in: Reviews and Mittheilungen über Theater und Musik , Vol. 6, No. 27 of July 4, 1860, pp. 412f. ( Digitized version )
• Musical sketches from Old Vienna. I , in: Reviews and Mitheilungen über Theater und Musik , Vol. 7, No. 47 of November 24, 1861, pp. 737-741 ( digitized version )
• Musical sketches from Old Vienna. II , in: Reviews and communications on theater and music , vol. 7, no. 48 of December 1, 1861, pp. 753-757 ( digitized version )
• Musical sketches from Old Vienna. III , in: Reviews and communications on theater and music , Vol. 8, No. 1 of January 5, 1862, pp. 4–7 ( digitized version)
• Musical sketches from Old Vienna. IV , in: Reviews and Mitheilungen über Theater und Musik , Vol. 8, No. 12 of March 23, 1862, pp. 177-180 ( digitized version )
• Musical sketches from Old Vienna. V , in: Reviews and Mittheilungen über Theater und Musik , Vol. 8, No. 24 of June 15, 1862, pp. 369–375 (by Wilhelm Böcking about Sonnleithner himself) ( digitized version)
• Musical sketches from Old Vienna. VI , in: Reviews and communications on theater and music , vol. 9, no. 20 of May 17, 1863, pp. 305–307 ( digitized version )
• Musical sketches from Old Vienna. VI. (End) , in: Reviews and communications on theater and music , Vol. 9, No. 20 of May 17, 1863, pp. 322–325 ( digitized version )
• To save an artist's honor , in: Reviews and Mittheilungen über Theater und Musik , Vol. 11, No. 51 of December 23, 1865, pp. 801f. (about Caroline Unger and the world premiere of Beethoven's 9th Symphony ) ( digitized version )

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Sonnleithner, Leopold Edler von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, pp. 11–16 ( digitized version ).
• A. Brandtner:  Sonnleithner Leopold von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 426 f. (Direct links on p. 426 , p. 427 ).
• Gerhart Baumann:  Grillparzer, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 69-75 ( digitized version ). (Secondary entry)

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library