Stephan von Breuning (librettist)

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Stephan von Breuning

Stephan von Breuning (born August 17, 1774 in Bonn , † June 4, 1827 in Vienna ) was a German civil servant and librettist .

Life

Stephan von Breuning was the son of Hofrat Emanuel Joseph von Breuning and his wife Helene, born from Kerich . In 1784 the family made the acquaintance of Ludwig van Beethoven in their house on Bonn's Münsterplatz . He gave piano lessons to the Breuning children Eleonore and Lorenz. A lifelong friendship developed with son Stephan.

In 1801 Breuning moved to Vienna, where Beethoven's Fidelio was premiered four years later . In addition to Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Friedrich Treitschke , Breuning also contributed to the libretto . In 1806 Beethoven dedicated his violin concerto op.61 to his friend . After Beethoven's death in 1827, Breuning took care of the estate settlement, but died that same year. The plan to publish a Beethoven biography, which Breuning had considered together with Beethoven's childhood friend Franz Gerhard Wegeler and Anton Schindler , could not be realized.

family

Breuning married Julie von Vering (1791–1809), the daughter of Beethoven's doctor Gerhard von Vering (1755–1823), to whom Beethoven dedicated the piano version of his violin concerto in April 1808 . After her untimely death, he entered into a relationship with Constanze Ruschowitz (* 1785/86 in Freudenthal / Austrian Silesia ; † October 5, 1856 in Vienna) around 1812 , whom he married on February 18, 1817. They had three children:

  • Gerhard von Breuning ,
  • Helena Juliana Philippina von Breuning (born August 17, 1818),
  • Mara Magdalena Barbara von Breuning (born April 2, 1821).

literature

  • Ludwig Nohl , three friends of Beethoven. On Beethoven's relationship with Ignaz von Gleichenstein, Stephan von Breuning and Johann Malfatti , in: Allgemeine Deutsche Musikzeitung , vol. 6 (1879), no. 39 of September 26th, pp. 305–308; No. 40 of October 3, pp. 313-315; No. 41, October 10, pp. 321-323; No. 42, October 17, pp. 329-331; No. 43 of October 24, pp. 337-339
  • Stephan Ley , Beethoven as a friend of the Wegeler family - von Breuning , Bonn 1927
  • Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  • Martella Gutiérrez-Denhoff, New mosaic stones in the picture of the von Breuning family. A contribution to the intellectual and social environment of the adolescent Beethoven in Bonn , in: Musical sources - sources on music history. Festschrift for Martin Staehelin for his 65th birthday , ed. by Ulrich Konrad , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, pp. 345–361

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Friederike Grigat, The genesis of Franz Gerhard Wegeler's Beethoven biography in the years 1827 to 1845 , in: dies., The Wegeler Collection in the Beethoven House. Critical Catalog , Bonn 2008 (= Bonner Beethoven Studies , Volume 7), pp. 32–75
  2. ^ Vienna, parish Alservorstadt, marriage book, Tom. 1809-1817, fol. 264, cit. based on Rita Steblin , Beethoven's Name in Viennese Conscription Records , in: The Beethoven Journal , vol. 24, no. 1 (summer 2009), pp. 4–13, here p. 13, note 47
  3. ↑ Ibid
personal data
SURNAME Breuning, Stephan von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librettist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1827
Place of death Vienna