Marianne Auenbrugger (1759-1782) - Sonata per il clavicembalo (c.1781)
Performers: Barbara Bаіrd (harpsichord)
Painting: Adele Romany (1769-1846) - A young person hesitating to play the piano in front of her family
Further info: Marianne Auenbrugger (1759-1782)
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Austrian singer, harpsichordist and composer. She was born to physician
Leopold Auenbrugger (1722-1809) and his wife Anna. Her childhood was far
from easy. Frail and in poor health, the young girl was nevertheless
enthusiastic in her studies. Together with her sister Katharina
Franziska Auenbrugger (1755-1825), she was a student of Joseph Haydn and
Antonio Salieri. In 1780 Haydn dedicated the cycle of six piano
sonatas, Opus 30, to the two sisters (Hob. XVI: 35-39 and 20). Leopold
Mozart and Haydn praised her and her sister for extraordinary
musicianship. She was highly regarded as a pianist and composer in
Vienna. Her father, Leopold, counted Haydn and Leopold Mozart among his
friends and held regular musical soirees at his home with Antonio
Salieri, a regular attendee and family friend. In fact, Leopold
Auenbrugger would later serve as best man to Salieri. Marianne and her
sister regularly performed as pianists at these events and Salieri took
her into his tutelage, deeply impressed by her talent as a composer and
musician. Sadly, her early promise was cut short and she died at age 23,
a victim of consumption (tuberculosis). Following her death in 1782,
Salieri paid to have her Keyboard Sonata in E-flat published alongside
his own funeral ode, dedicated to her memory.
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