Marianne Auernhammer

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Marianna Clara Auernhammer , married Czegka , b. Bessenig (born December 13, 1786 in Vienna , † August 26, 1849 in Linz ) was an Austrian singer , pianist and composer .

Life

She was a daughter from the marriage of the pianist Josepha Auernhammer and the civil servant Johann Bessenig and was baptized on December 13, 1786 in the Michaelerkirche with the name Marianna Clara. Already in her youth she performed several times as a pianist, mostly together with her mother. Her first demonstrable appearance as a singer took place in the spring of 1804, also in a concert by her mother. The Viennese correspondent for the Leipziger Allgemeine Musical Zeitung reports: “The daughter of Madame Auernh. sang an aria and a duet not without skill. "

On May 26, 1806 she took part in a private performance of Ferdinando Paër's opera Leonora , which took place in the palace of Prince Joseph Lobkowitz , and played the role of Marzelline. Louise Müller performed the title role in this performance . This is borne out by a note in the diary of Count Karl von Zinzendorf . She also played the Marzelline on February 8, 1809 at the first public performance of the opera in the Theater am Kärntnertor . From 1809 to 1814 she was a member of the Vienna Court Opera and married Johann Franz Vinzenz Czegka in 1810.

She then moved to Prague and became a teacher at the prestigious Prague Conservatory . On March 14, 1820, “Mad. Marianne Czegka, born von Auernhammer, singing teacher at the Conservatory ”, there a musical and declamatory academy. Another concert was “Mad. Mariane Czegka ”on November 5, 1839.

She was later engaged in Leipzig and Ulm.

Marianne Auernhammer was the teacher of the singer Henriette Sontag and also emerged as a composer of songs.

literature

  • Catalog of the portrait collection of the kuk General-Intendanz of the kk Hoftheater. At the same time a biographical guide in the field of theater and music. Second division. Group IV. Wiener Hoftheater , Vienna 1892, p. 351f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , Vol. 6, No. 28 of April 11, 1804, Col. 471 (digitized version)
  2. ^ Vienna, Austrian State Archives , Cabinet Archives , Zinzendorf Diaries, Volume 51 (1806), fol. 54v (French); German translation by Walther Brauneis , Ludwig van Beethoven in the mirror of the diaries of Count Karl von Zinzendorf. In: Mitteilungsblatt Wiener Beethoven-Gesellschaft , No. 3/1980, pp. 9–11.
  3. ↑ See notice (digital copy)
  4. ↑ Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , Vol. 22, No. 17 of April 26, 1820, Col. 288 (digitized version)
  5. ↑ Bohemia, an entertainment journal , No. 143 of November 29, 1839 (digitized version)
personal data
SURNAME Auernhammer, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Auernhammer, Marianne Clara (full name); Czegka, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer, pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1849
Place of death Linz