Ludwig von Stainlein
Ludwig von Stainlein , also Louis de Stainlein , full name Ludwig Karl Georg Cornelius von Stainlein-Saalenstein (born July 3, 1819 in Horné Semerovce, Hont county , † November 22, 1867 in Angleur , Belgium) was a Bavarian count , composer and cellist .
Descent and origin
He was born in the Hungarian county of Hont, the son of Baron Johann Gottlieb Eduard von Stainlein (1785–1833) and his wife Susanne geb. from Hellenbach . His sister Malwina married Heinrich Wilhelm Joseph von Wilczek, son of the Austrian politician Friedrich von Wilczek (1790–1861). The father Eduard von Stainlein came from the Upper Franconian court , was a diplomat valued by King Maximilian I Joseph and acted as the Bavarian envoy in Vienna. In 1830 the Protestant family was raised to the count of the Kingdom of Bavaria , with the additional title of Saalenstein ; In 1841 the count was recognized in the Kingdom of Hungary .
Live and act
Ludwig von Stainlein first attended school in Pest , after the death of his father the Hollandeum educational institution in Munich , which was run by the Catholic priest Benedict von Holland , where he had already developed a preference for the cello under his teacher Ignaz Sigl († 1863).
From 1837 to 1842 Count Stainlein served as an officer in the Moravian Cuirassier Regiment "Count Wallmoden" No. 10 . Then he went to Paris for musical training . He played the cello enthusiastically and also composed pieces of music himself; he had a close friendship with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy († 1847). In 1848 he met the banker's daughter Valerie Nagelmackers in Angleur, Belgium, whom he married on October 31, 1849. Her nephew was the future railroad entrepreneur Georges Nagelmackers (1845-1905).
The couple settled in Vienna , where several of Stainlein's compositions were performed. Due to illness, Ludwig von Stainlein stayed in Baden-Baden for two years , where u. a. King Wilhelm I of Württemberg and Prince Friedrich of Prussia attended his concerts. In Paris he met Giacomo Meyerbeer , who encouraged him in his musical work. The nobleman fell seriously ill in Nice and returned to his Hungarian homeland. Here he contracted cholera and was expected to die. On the alleged deathbed he converted to Catholicism and was the most 5 July 1858 last rites grant entered what an unexpected and sudden recovery.
After his recovery, Ludwig von Stainlein visited Aachen and Cologne , at the end of 1860 he came to Munich, where he felt at home because of his school days. In order to settle here permanently, he bought a building site in front of the Siegestor and had a villa built, which should be ready for occupancy in 1866. In the meantime he stayed in Rome in 1864, in Würzburg in the winter of 1865 and again in Rome in 1866. There he made friends with Franz Liszt , who had entered the clergy. Camillo Sivori , already known to Stainlein from Baden-Baden, performed several of his works here. Liszt, various cardinals and other dignitaries of Roman society were among the visitors to the concerts. This period is seen as the high point of Graf Stainlein's musical output.
Since the Munich house was not yet completely finished at the end of 1866, the Count and his family went to Angleur, to the Nagelmackers Castle , his wife's family castle . Ludwig von Stainlein died here on November 22nd, 1867 after a long illness.
He wished to be buried in Rome, which with the permission of Pope Pius IX. happened. Bavarians who served in the papal army transferred his coffin there and Stainlein was buried in May 1868 in the Basilica of Santa Sabina .
His compositions include a. three orchestral fantasies, a piano trio and two string quartets. The best known is Stainlein's Serenade for four violoncellos (1856), which has been relocated to the present.
In 1854 Stainlein acquired a cello from Antonio Stradivari from Niccolò Paganini's estate, on which he mostly played. In 1862 he arranged a meeting with the poet Emanuel Geibel for his friend, the composer Max Bruch , in Munich, in order to be able to set his poem The Loreley to music as an opera.
literature
- Ludwig Schönchen: Ludwig Graf Stainlein von Saalenstein: a sheet of memory , Munich, 1868; (Digital view of biography)
- David August Rosenthal : Convertite Pictures from the Nineteenth Century , Volume 1, Part 3, pp. 205–212, Hurter Verlag, Schaffhausen, 1872; (Digital view)
- Pierer's Universal-Lexikon , Volume 16, Altenburg, 1863, p. 675; Digital view
- Sabine Henze-Döhring: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Briefwechsel und Tagebücher , Volume 7, P. 645, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-018030-8 ; (Digital scan)
- Julius Ferdinand Georg Schuberth: Small musical Conversations Lexicon , Philadelphia, USA, 1871, p. 388; (Digital scan)
Web links
- Genealogical website about the person
- Website with a death notice that can be enlarged
- Collection of works
- Further list of works
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical website about the couple
- ^ Friedrich August Schmidt: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 11 (1833), Volume 2, p. 909; (Digital scan)
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German Count Houses of the Present , Volume 3, p. 380 u. 381; (Family history digital scan)
- ↑ Tagblatt for the district capital Augsburg , No. 259, from September 16, 1830
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 8, p. 596, Leipzig, 1868; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Biographical page on Ignaz Sigl
- ↑ PDF document with biographical information
- ^ Obituary, Augsburger Postzeitung from November 22, 1869
- ↑ To the Serenade op. 12 by Ludwig von Stainlein
- ^ Website on the history of the violoncello
- ↑ Christopher Fifield: Max Bruch: His Life and Works , Boydell Press, 2005, p. 40, ISBN 1-84383-136-8 ; (Digital scan)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stainlein, Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Louis de Stainlein, Ludwig Karl Georg Cornelius von Stainlein-Saalenstein |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Graf, composer and cellist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Horné Semerovce, Hont county |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1867 |
| Place of death | Angleur , Belgium |