Therese Malfatti

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Therese Malfatti, excerpt from an anonymous pastel picture
Therese Malfatti at the piano with her family, around 1810

Therese von Droßdik , née Malfatti (born January 1, 1792 in Vienna ; † April 27, 1851 ibid) from 1806 Malfatti von Rohrenbach zu Dezza was an Austrian musician and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven .

Life

Therese Malfatti was the daughter of the Viennese merchant Jacob Friedrich Malfatti (1769–1829) and a cousin of the famous and wealthy doctor Johann Baptist Malfatti (1775–1859). Her father, who owned an estate in Walkersdorf am Kamp from 1804, was raised to hereditary nobility on April 2, 1806 with the title "Edler von Rohrenbach zu Dezza". Her younger sister Anna (1792–1869) married Beethoven's friend Ignaz von Gleichenstein on May 29, 1811 in Etsdorf am Kamp .

Through Gleichenstein, Beethoven came into contact with Therese's family in 1810, with whom he felt very comfortable. At that time, the Malfatti family lived in the house at Rotenturmstrasse 771, where the company was also located, from 1820 No. 725, today Rotenturmstrasse 24. Beethoven wrote:

"Thank you good g. that you brought me there. "

The musicologist Ludwig Nohl later learned from her sister Anna:

“The family was very musical and Beethoven gave his daughter Therese, who played beautifully, piano lessons, fell in love with her and also wanted to marry her. But his friend Gleichenstein held him back with good reason. "

Another source says:

"His affection for her developed as quickly as it was passionate, but was not reciprocated by the young girl either now or later ."

The plan to marry Therese Malfatti is also expressed in several letters from the composer:

  • Beethoven's letter to Nikolaus Zmeskall of April 18, 1810: “Do you not remember the situation in which I am, like Hercules once did with Queen Omphale ??? [...] I have never felt the power or the weakness of human nature as much as izt. "
  • His request to Gleichenstein to get him 300 fl. Shirt and scarves.
  • His request to his childhood friend Franz Gerhard Wegeler in Bonn on May 2, 1810 to send him a baptismal certificate.
  • His letter to Therese at the end of May 1810 with the statement "Forget the great thing"
  • Stephan von Breuning's communication to Wegeler on August 11, 1810, Beethoven's "Heyrath's part has broken up."
  • The reaction to Therese's obvious rejection: "Your message plunged me down again from the regions of the greatest delight."

Therese married on June 14, 1816 in Worms the Imperial and Royal Hofrat Johann Wilhelm von Droßdik (1771-1852). When she was still old, Therese von Droßdik described herself as a student of Beethoven and played his sonatas with “incomparable virtuosity”. Little attention is paid to her friendship with Franz Schubert , whom she invited to one of her annual house balls in Mardi Gras in 1828. A friend of Schubert, the composer Joseph Lanz (1797–1873), dedicated his Rondeau pour le Pianoforte op. 1 to her.

Most recently she lived at Kärntnerstrasse No. 1038, where she died at the age of 59 "of dropsy ". It is today's house at Kärntner Straße 38, in which the lawyer Johann Nepomuk Zizius (1772–1824) also temporarily lived, who organized the popular musical soirees there.

Album sheet "For Elise"

Beethoven sent Therese the Piano Sonata op. 78. She also owned the now lost autograph of the Bagatelle WoO 59 called Für Elise (“Für Elise on April 27 in memory of L. v. Bthvn”). Ludwig Nohl discovered it in 1865 at Babette Bredl's in Munich . The autograph came there through Bredl's illegitimate son, the pianist and composer Rudolph Schachner , who was Therese Malfatti's house friend and who inherited her music. Although Nohl expressly states that the piece was “not written for Therese”, Max Unger put forward the thesis in 1923 that Nohl had misread and that the dedication should be “For Therese”.

In 2010, Unger's thesis was questioned by Klaus Martin Kopitz , especially since he was able to prove for the first time that Beethoven was actually  close friends with a woman named “Elise” - at the time 17-year-old Elisabeth Röckel - at the time in question . In 2015 Kopitz published further, previously unknown sources on her relationship with Beethoven.

literature

  • Ludwig Nohl (Ed.), Beethoven's New Letters. In addition to some unprinted occasional compositions and excerpts from his diary and his reading , Stuttgart: Cotta 1867, pp. 28–33 (digitized version )
  • Albert Leitzmann , Beethoven and Therese Malfatti. A critical study. In: Deutsche Rundschau , vol. 38 (1911), issue 2, pp. 276–290 (digitized version )
  • Max Unger , Beethoven and Therese von Malfatti. In: The Musical Quarterly , Vol. 11 (1925), pp. 63-72
  • Sieghard Brandenburg (ed.), The Friends of the Malfatti Family in Vienna. Drawn by Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld , Bonn: Beethoven-Haus 1985 (= annual editions of the Beethoven-Haus Association , No. 4)
  • Virginia Beahrs, The Beethoven-Malfatti Connection Revisited. In: The Beethoven Journal , vol. 13 (1998), no. 1, pp. 12-16
  • Michael Lorenz , "Baroness Droßdik and the various nightingales". Biographical notes on a Schubert document. In: Schubert durch die Brille , Vol. 26 (2001), pp. 47-88
  • Michael Lorenz, Studies on the Schubert Circle . Vienna 2001 (Vienna, Univ., Diss., 2001)
  • Michael Lorenz, article "Malfatti von Rohrenbach zu Dezza, Therese", in: Das Beethoven-Lexikon , ed. by Heinz von Loesch and Claus Raab , Laaber 2008, p. 476f.
  • 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 Studies , Volume 11 (2014), pp. 141–163

Remarks

  1. ↑ Michael Lorenz: Baroness Droßdik and the "verschneyten nightingales" (= Schubert through glasses 26). Schneider, Tutzing 2001, p. 64.
  2. ↑ Brandenburg (1985), pp. 33f.
  3. ↑ Directory of the new house numbers [sic] of the imperial and royal capital Vienna , Vienna 1820, p. [19] ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Vienna History Wiki
  5. ^ A b Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition , ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Munich 1996–1998, Vol. 2, No. 436
  6. ↑ Ludwig Nohl, Beethoven's Unprinted Briefe , in: Westermann's illustrated German monthly books , Volume 19 (1865), pp. 306-313, here p. 306 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ Alexander Wheelock Thayer , Ludwig van Beethovens Leben , edited in German by Hermann Deiters , revised by Hugo Riemann , Volume 2, Leipzig 1922, p. 322
  8. ^ Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Munich 1996–1998, vol. 2, no. 430
  9. ^ Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition , ed. von Sieghard Brandenburg, Munich 1996–1998, Vol. 2, No. 432
  10. ^ Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition, ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Munich 1996–1998, Vol. 2, No. 439
  11. ^ A b Ludwig van Beethoven, Correspondence. Complete edition , ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg, Munich 1996–1998, Vol. 2, No. 442
  12. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a., Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories, Volume 1, Munich: Henle 2009, p. 125
  13. ^ Michael Lorenz: Studies on the Schubert circle . Vienna 2001, (Vienna, Univ., Diss., 2001).
  14. ↑ 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 ).
  15. ^ Rita Steblin : The composer Joseph Lanz (1797-1873). A forgotten friend of Franz Schubert from Upper Austria. In: Streifzüge II. Contributions to Upper Austrian music history. Edited by Klaus Petermayr and Erich Wolfgang Partsch . Volksliedwerk, Linz Upper Austria, pp. 77-107.
  16. ^ Wiener Zeitung , No. 107 of May 4, 1851, p. 1334 ( digitized version )
  17. ^ Vienna History Wiki
  18. ↑ Ludwig van Beethoven: New letters: together with some unprinted occasional compositions and excerpts from his diary and his reading . 1867 ( google.de [accessed on February 16, 2020]).
  19. ↑ Michael Lorenz: The "Unmasked Elise": Elisabeth Röckel's short career as Beethoven's "Elise" . In: Bonn Beethoven Studies 9 . Bonn 2011, pp. 169–190. Essay online .
  20. ↑ Max Unger, Beethoven's piano piece “Für Elise”. In: Die Musik , vol. 15.1 (February 1923), pp. 334–340, here p. 335
  21. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz, Beethoven's "Elise" Elisabeth Röckel. New aspects of the creation and transmission of the piano piece WoO 59. In: Die Tonkunst , vol. 9, no. 1 from January 2015, pp. 48–57 ( PDF)

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personal data
SURNAME Malfatti, Therese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Droßdik, Therese von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1851
Place of death Vienna