Rudolph Schachner

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Rudolph Schachner, lithograph (1861)

Joseph Rudolph Schachner (born December 30, 1816 in Munich , † August 15, 1896 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German pianist and composer .

Life

Schachner was an illegitimate son of the Munich teacher Barbara (“Babette”) Bredl (born December 1, 1792 in Sendling ; † December 22, 1880 in Munich ), his father was the Vienna-born “gold wire puller” Jacob Schachner, “born in Vienna ".

He grew up with his mother and received music lessons at an early age, including with the Munich court organist Kajetan Ett, and in 1835 with Johann Baptist Cramer , who was then temporarily in Munich.

In 1836 Schachner went to Vienna and made friends there with Therese von Droßdik, née. Malfatti (1792–1851), a former friend of Ludwig van Beethoven . In 1842 he achieved great success with his concert piece op. 10 during a guest performance in Paris , and in 1848 two songs composed for the March Revolution became popular in Vienna . On February 12, 1850, Therese von Droßdik declared Schachner to be the heir to her musical items in an addition to her will.

After her death he returned to Munich and married Elisabeth Wendling (* 1815), a granddaughter of the singer Elisabeth Augusta Wendling, on December 14, 1852 . With her he moved to London in the spring of 1853. In 1868 the Schachner couple returned to Munich, went to Salzburg in 1872 and resettled in Munich in 1887. Schachner died during a summer stay in Bad Reichenhall and was buried in Salzburg.

Of musical historical importance is the fact that Schachner owned the autograph of Beethoven's album sheet Für Elise WoO 59 before 1865 , which he inherited from Therese von Droßdik in 1851. According to a study of his estate that Jürgen May presented in 2014, it is not included there. The later whereabouts of the leaf is still unclear.

Works (selection)

  • Large Concert Piece in F minor, Op. 6 for piano and orchestra
  • Concert piece op. 10 for piano and orchestra
  • Fantasy piece in c sharp minor op.15 for piano
  • Fantasy with variations on the American folk song " Yankee Doodle " op. 32 for piano
  • Elegy in E flat major op.33 for piano
  • Israel's Return from Babylon op.34, oratorio (1862)
  • Der Heini von Steier op. 42 for male choir and orchestra

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Schachner, Rudolph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1875, pp. 27–34 ( digitized version ).
  • Johann Evangelist Engl, Obituary , in: Salzburger Volksblatt , No. 195 of August 27, 1896, pp. 2–3, No. 196 of August 28, 1896, pp. 2–3, No. 198 of August 31, 1896, P. 2 f.
  • Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 , Volume 10 (Lfg. 46, 1990), p. 19 (digitized version)
  • Michael Lorenz , Baroness Droßdik and the "mixed nightingales". Biographical notes on a Schubert document , in: Schubert durch die Brille , Heft 26 (2001), pp. 47–88
  • Michael Lorenz, The "Unmasked Elise". Elisabeth Röckel's short career as Beethoven's “Elise” , in: Bonner Beethoven Studies 9 (2011), pp. 169–190, essay online
  • Michael Lorenz, "Maria Eva Hummel. A Postscript" Vienna, 2013
  • Jürgen May, A bagatelle and other little things. On the transmission of Beethoven's WoO 59 in the context of the Beethoveniana from the possession of Therese von Drosdick , in: Bonner Beethoven-Studien 11 (2014), pp. 141–163
  • Klaus Martin Kopitz , Beethoven's "Elise" Elisabeth Röckel . New aspects on the creation and transmission of the piano piece WoO 59 , in: Die Tonkunst , vol. 9, no. 1 from January 2015, pp. 48–57
  • Michael Lorenz, letter to the editors of Die Tonkunst magazine , Vienna, January 26, 2016

Web links

The estate in the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ May (2014), p. 147 u. 149
  2. ↑ On her biography cf. Lorenz (2011), pp. 185-189, May (2014), pp. 146-149 and Kopitz (2015), pp. 55f.
  3. ^ Munich, Archbishop's Ordinariate, AEM matriculation 9282, p. 347, Parish of Our Lady
personal data
SURNAME Schachner, Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schachner, Joseph Rudolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1896
Place of death Bad Reichenhall