Therese Bartolozzi

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Therese Bartolozzi , b. Jansen (* around 1770 in Aachen ; † June 28, 1843 in Pimlico , London ) was a German pianist and composer .

Life

Therese Jansen was born in Aachen around 1770. Her father was a successful dance master there and moved to London with his family in 1787. The family business of teaching wealthy customers dance was quite successful and was continued for some time by Therese and her younger brother Louis Charles Jansen (* 1774 Aachen, † 1840 in Marylebone ). According to an anonymous biography of Jansen's daughter, the company brought in over £ 2,000 a year.

Both Therese and her brother Louis studied in London with the famous pianist Muzio Clementi . In 1791, her reputation as an outstanding pianist was so solid that Johann Peter Salomon gave her and her family free tickets to the concerts that Joseph Haydn held in the Hanover Square Rooms. The lady-in-waiting Charlotte Papendiek reports this in her diaries.

On May 16, 1795 Therese Jansen married the art dealer Gaetano Bartolozzi (1757–1821), a son of the engraver Francesco Bartolozzi. One of the witnesses was Joseph Haydn. Bartolozzi's work often took him to Venice , near which he bought a large estate. Like his wife, he was very musical and played the violin and viola .

In 1797, Bartolozzi closed his art business and auctioned his shares at Christie's . The family then traveled to Paris , then to Vienna , where they stayed in 1797/98 and probably renewed their acquaintance with Haydn. You were among the subscribers to the first edition of the oratorio The Creation , which Haydn himself published in 1800. In 1799, the Bartolozzi family traveled to Venice and discovered that their property had been looted by French forces during the recent invasion of the area. In around January 1800 the family returned to London, where Bartolozzi began giving drawing lessons.

On May 28, 1806, Therese Bartolozzi appeared in public for the first time in the King's Theater on Haymarket , together with the pianist Joseph Woelfl .

family

Therese Bartolozzi was the mother of the then famous actress, singer and theater director Lucia Elisabeth Vestris (1797–1856).

Works dedicated to Therese Bartolozzi

  • Muzio Clementi , Three Piano Sonatas op.33 (1794)
  • Johann Ladislaus Dussek , Three Violin Sonatas op.13 (1793), Piano Sonata op.43
  • Joseph Haydn , Three Piano Trios Hob. XV: 27–29, Three Piano Sonatas Hob. XVI: 50–52
  • Louis Jansen, Piano Sonata op.6 (1802)

literature

  • Oliver Strunk , Notes on a Haydn autograph , in: Musical Quarterly , vol. 20 (1934), pp. 192–205 ( digitized version )
  • HC Robbins Landon , Haydn in England: 1791–1795 , Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1976
  • Nicholas Salwey, Women pianists in eighteenth century London , in: Susan Wollenberg and Simon McVeigh (eds.), Concert life in eighteenth-century Britain , Ashgate Publishing 2004, pp. 273–290
  • Katelyn Clark, The London Pianist: Theresa Jansen and the English Works of Haydn, Dussek and Clementi , 2009 ( digitized )
  • The Haydn Lexicon , ed. by Armin Raab, Christine Siegert and Wolfram Steinbeck , Laaber 2010, p. 88

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine , August 1843, p. 216 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Morgenblatt für educated readers , No. 308 of November 25, 1840, p. 1232 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Strunk (1934)
  4. ↑ Charlotte Papendiek, Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte: Being the Journals of Mrs Papendiek, Assistant Keeper of the Wardrobe and Reader to Her Majesty, edited by her Grand-Daughter, Mrs Vernon Delves Broughton , London 1887, Volume 2 , P. 294 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Bartolozzi, Therese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jansen, Therese (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1843
Place of death Pimlico near London