Walburga Willmann
Maximiliana Valentina Walburga Willmann (born on May 18, 1769 in Bonn ; died on June 27, 1835 in Mainz ) was a German pianist and composer .
Life
Willmann was the daughter of the musician Johann Ignaz Willmann from the Electorate of Cologne and born from Maria Elisabeth. Erdmannsdorfer (died 1789). She was the sister of the cellist and composer Max Willmann and the soprano Magdalena Willmann . The singer Caroline Willmann (1796-1860) was a half-sister.
She is said to have been a piano student of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , but this cannot be verified. Already in 1784 she gave her father-organized concert debut in Vienna with her siblings. About a concert by the three musical “child prodigies” in 1792:
“Everywhere they went their merits were done justice; and encouraged them with a warm welcome and appropriate gifts. So in Mainz, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Mannheim and Munich. [...] The Aeltere [di Walburga Willmann] knows how to combine skill with precision and feeling in her piano playing. "
In 1788 she appeared as a piano teacher in Frankfurt am Main , from 1791, like her father, she was in the service of the Electorate of Cologne and chamber virtuoso at the Bonn National Theater . On September 28, 1797, she married the librettist Franz Xaver Huber in Vienna . The best man was the composer Franz Xaver Süßmayr .
From 1800 Willmann went on concert tours, concerts in 1801 in Leipzig , 1802 in Dresden and 1803 in Bonn are documented . In 1804 she followed her husband into exile after he had to leave Austria as part of Napoleon's party. In the following years, the couple stayed in the French-dominated parts of Germany, including Mainz and Munich. Huber died in Mainz in 1814 and she died there in 1835 at the age of 66.
Her works include a piano concerto composed in Leipzig in 1801, which has now been lost.
literature
- Christian Fastl: Willmann family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
- Karl Maria Pisarowitz: The Willmanns. The restituted novel by a potentiated family of musicians. In: Mitteilungen der Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, XV (1967), pp. 7–12.
- Karl Maria Pisarowitz, SL: Willmann, (Maximiliana Valentina) Walburga. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Web links
- Walburga Willmann in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Anja Herold: Willmann, (Maximiliana Valentina) Walburga, m. Huber. In European instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Sophie Drinker Institute .
- Karl Maria Pisarowitz: (Maximiliana Valentina) Walburga Willmann. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musical monthly writing. Edited by Johann Friedrich Reichardt , Berlin 1792, p. 20 f. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willmann, Walburga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Willmann, Walpurga; Willmann, Maximiliana Valentina Walburga (full name); Willmann-Huber, Marie (married name); Huber, Walburga (married name); Willmann, Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1835 |
| Place of death | Mainz |