Leopoldine Blahetka
Marie Leopoldine Blahetka (16 November 1809 – 17 January 1885) was an Austrian pianist and composer.
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Leopoldine Blahetka

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- Born
- 1809. · Guntramsdorf.
- Died
- 1885. · Boulogne-sur-Mer.
- Nationality
- Austrian Empire.
- Occupation
- composer and pianist.
- Fields
- opera.
- Teachers
- Joseph Czerny, Joachim Hoffmann, Carl Czerny and Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
- Languages
- German.
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Marie Leopoldine Blahetka (16 November 1809 – 17 January 1885) was an Austrian pianist and composer.
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Life
Life
Leopoldine Blahetka was born in Guntramsdorf near Vienna, the child of George and Barbara Joseph Blahetka Sophia, née Traeg. Her father was a history and mathematics teacher and had good relations with Ludwig van Beethoven, and her mother a physharmonica teacher and performer. Her maternal grandfather was the Viennese composer Andreas Traeg. At the age of 9, Leopoldine Blahetka made her first public appearances, and the Viennese press described her as a "child prodigy". At the age of 11 she created her first compositions, which she also performed regularly as part of her concerts. The family moved to Vienna and George Blahetka took a job with the Traeg music publishing house. Leopoldine took piano lessons from her mother and made her debut as a pianist in 1818. Afterwards, she studied with Joseph Czerny, Hieronymus Payer, Eduard Freiherr von Lannoy, Joachim Hoffmann, Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Ignaz Moscheles, and later composition with Simon Sechter. In 1821 Blahetka began touring Europe, accompanied by her mother, and continued to tour for about twenty years. In about 1830 the family moved to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, seeking a better climate. Blahetka died in Boulogne-sur Mer. In 1825/26 to Munich, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig, among others. In 1830 she gave concerts in Graz and Klagenfurt and undertook a longer concert tour via Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Gotha, The Hague and Brussels to London. Robert Schumann, who heard her on her concert tour in Germany, judged her playing to be "a truly feminine one, delicate, prudent and elaborate". He was also very impressed by her compositions.
Works
Works
Selected works include: op. 9, Grande polonaise concertante pour le piano forte et violoncello op. 13, Variations sur un thème favorite op. 14, Variations brillantes op. 15, Sonate for violin op. 16, Nr. 1, 6 Deutsche Lieder: Die Nebelbilder op. 16, Nr. 2, 6 Deutsche Lieder: Der Getröstete op. 16, Nr. 3, 6 Deutsche Lieder: Die Totenklage op. 16, Nr. 4, 6 Deutsche Lieder: Die fernen Berge op. 16, Nr. 5, 6 Deutsche Lieder: Sehnsucht op. 16, Nr. 6, 6 Deutsche Lieder: Matrosenlied op. 18, Variations brillantes sur un thème hongrois op. 19, Polonaise D-Dur op. 20, Variations brillantes sur le Siège de Corinthe op. 25, Konzertstück for piano and (optional) string quartet or orchestra op. 26, Six Valses avec Trio et Coda op. 26a, Variationen über ein Thema aus der Oper 'Die Stumme' von Portici op. 27, Variations sur un thème tyrolien op. 28, Variations sur la chanson nationale autrichienne Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser op. 29, Variations sur un thème de Gallenberg op. 32, Rastlose Liebe op. 39, Introduction and Variations for flute and piano op. 43, Piano Quartet op. 44, 2nd Piano Quartet op. 47, Grand Duo (for Piano 4-hands) op. 48, Capriccio for Piano

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1885
Leopoldine Blahetka died at Boulogne-sur-Mer.
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Guntramsdorf.
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- 1.Karin Pendle. Women and music. 2001.
- 2.Freia Hoffmann: Article "Blahetka, (Anna, Anne, Maria, Marie,) Leopoldine, Léopoldine". (In German) In: European Instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 2008. Online Encyclopedia of the Sophie Drinker Institute, ed. by Freia Hoffmann
- 3.Sadie, Julie Anne. The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. W. W. Norton & Company. 1994. 9780393034875.
- 4.Lebenslauf von Marie Léopoldine Blahetka.
- 5.Turner, Christie Susan. Leopoldine Blahetka (1811-1887): pianist and composer. 1979.
- 6.Blahetka, Maria Leopoldine - Schumann-Portal. www.schumann-portal.de.
- 7.See either or Hofmeister scan at ÖNB.
- 8.Werke sortiert nach Opuszahl.
- 9.Dedicated to Johann Peter Pixis and published in 1836 by Hofmeister, Leipzig. See Hofmeister Monatsberichte (scan).
- 10.See e.g. Hofmeister Monatsberichte - published 1837/early 1838 by Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig.
- 11.Dedicated to Clara Wieck. Digitized copy of this score uploaded to Munich Library. Published 1839, according to HMB.
- 12.Published in 1843 or 1844 by Schuberth & Co. (HMB)
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