Ludwig Landsberg

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Ludwig Landsberg (* 1807 in Breslau ; † May 6, 1858 in Rome ) was a German music teacher and autograph collector.

Life

Landsberg was initially a tenor in the choir of the Royal Opera in Berlin . In 1835 he went to Rome, where he opened a music shop, rented musical instruments, organized concerts and later became director of the local conservatory. He also did a great job as a “disinterested patron and protector of all young artists who came to Rome.” Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his sister Fanny Hensel , who lived in Landsberg's house on Via del. 1839/40 during their stay in Rome, were among his friends Corso 133 ran.

Through the mediation of the Viennese sculptor Karl Radnitzky , Landsberg was able to acquire several manuscripts by Franz Schubert in 1844 . He also owned valuable Beethoven autographs , including some sketchbooks. Today they are called “Sketchbook Landsberg 1” to “Sketchbook Landsberg 11”.

Landsberg died unexpectedly of a stroke in 1858 .

A year after his death, most of his collection came to the Royal Library in Berlin.

literature

  • Autographs from the estate of Prof. Landsberg zu Rome , Berlin: Ernst Kühn 1859 ( digitized version )
  • Hermann Mendel and August Reissmann , Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon , 2nd edition, Volume 6, Leipzig 1880, p. 239 ( digitized version )
  • Robert Lachmann , Die Schubertautographen der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , in: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft , vol. 11 (1928/29), pp. 109–119 ( digitized version )
  • Remo Giazotto , Quattro secoli di storia dell ' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia , Verona: Mondadori 1970
  • Douglas Porter Johnson, Alan Tyson , Robert Winter, The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory , Los Angeles: University of California Press 1985, pp. 31-33
  • Schubert Lexicon , ed. by Ernst Hilmar and Margret Jestremski, 2nd edition, Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt 1997, p. 263f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Günter Klein , Fanny Hensel in Rome. Experiences of self-discovery, awakening and liberation from social shackles , in: Christina Ujma, Paths to Modernity - Travel Literature by Writers of the Vormärz , Bielefeld 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Landsberg, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and collector of autographs
DATE OF BIRTH 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1858
Place of death Rome