Julie Waldburg-Wurzach

Princess Julie Furstin von Waldburg-Wurzach (27 April 1841 – 7 December 1914) [1] was an Austrian composer who published over 60 works for voice and/or piano.[2] She was born in Vienna to Count Frans and Frantiska Dubsky von Trebomyslicz.[3] In 1858, she married Prince Eberhard Waldburg-Wurzach, becoming his second wife. They had two daughters, Marie and Elizabeth Sophie.[4]

One of Waldburg-Wurzach's teachers was pianist and composer Julie von Pfeilschifter,[5] who lived with the family at Schloss Kißlegg in Württemberg in 1872, then moved with them to Salzburg in 1874.[6] Franz Liszt reviewed Waldburg-Wurzach's compositions in at least one letter in 1874. He suggested a simpler notation for her "Mondlied"; edited the text of "Comme à Vingt Ans"; and noted that her song dedicated to Mme Ehnn, "Liebeshoffnung", "please[d] me particularly."[7]

In addition to composing, Waldburg-Wurzach provided significant help to several people.  In 1875, she used her social contacts at Cotta Verlag (today Klett-Cotta Verlag) to help her half-sister Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach begin publishing some of her writing,[8] She visited Ferdinand von Zeppelin after he crashed his aircraft in Allgau, Germany, on 17 January 1906.[9] In 1908, she helped organize a fundraiser and signed an ad in a Wiesbaden newspaper to raise money for her teacher Julie von Pfeilschifter.[3]

Waldburg-Wurzach's music was published by Bosworth & Company and Carl Ruhle. Her compositions include: [10][11]

Piano
  • Five Piano Keys for Small Hands, Op. 34[12]
  • Hochzeitsfanfare (march)
  • Mitzi-polka
  • Ohne Ende (polka-mazurka) Op. 15
  • Sonnenblumenwalzer
  • Tagesneuigkeiten, Op. 12 (polka)

Vocal
  • "Comme a vingt ans" Op. 32 (text by Emile Barateau)
  • "Drie Lieder" Op. 31 (text by Heinrich Heine and Baron von Eschenbach)[13]
  • "Es faelit ein Stern herunter" Op. 26 (text by Heinrich Heine)[14]
  • "Es hat nicht sollen sein" Op. 50 (text by Joseph Victor von Scheffel)
  • "Frau Nachtigall" Op. 25
  • "Herbstklage" Op. 29 (text by Nikolaus Lenau)[15]
  • "Lass' mich vor dir niedersinken" Op. 48 (text by Barbara Elisabeth Gluck as Betty Paoli)
  • "Lebe wohl" Op. 15
  • "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang' " Op. 45 (text by Heinrich Heine)
  • "Lieder Album" Op. 33 (text by Nikolaus Lenau; Eduard Morike; Hermann Oelschlager; Robert Reinick, and Emanuel von Geibel)
  • "O du, vor dem die Stuerme schweigen" Op. 24
  • "O Herz du musst dich fassen" Op. 23 (text by Robert Prutz)[16]
  • "Schilflied Auf dem Teich dem regungslosen" Op. 60[17]
  • "To the Moon" Op. 27[18]
  • "Ungarisches Lied" Op. 13
  • "Verriet Mein blasses Angesicht" Op. 7 (text by Heinrich Heine)

References
  1. Krasny, Elke (2008). Stadt und Frauen: eine andere Topographie von Wien (in German). Wienbibliothek im Rathaus. ISBN 978-3-902517-78-4.
  2. Women Composers: A Biographical Handbook of Women's Work in Music. Chandler-Ebel. 1913.
  3. "Gräfin Julie Dubsky von Trebomyslic". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  4. Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv. Verlag Herder. 1980.
  5. "Julie von Pfeilschifter" (in German). MUGI - Musik und Gender im internet. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  6. "Pfeilschifter [Musik und Musiker am Mittelrhein 2 | Online]". mmm2.mugemir.de. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  7. Liszt, Franz (1894). From Rome to the end. Charles Scribner's Sons.
  8. Tanzer, Ulrike (2006). "Review of Letzte Chancen. Vier Einakter von Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. (MHRA Critical Texts 3), ; Macht des Weibes. Zwei historische Tragödien von Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. (MHRA Critical Texts 4), Susanne Kord". Austrian Studies. 14: 354–356. ISSN 1350-7532.
  9. "Illerschorsch - Sprache und Land". www.illerschorsch.de. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  10. Cohen, Aaron I. International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
  11. "Julie von Waldburg-Wurzach, Fürstin (b. 1841) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  12. Eicker, Isabel (1995). Kinderstücke: an Kinder adressierte und über das Thema der Kindheit komponierte Alben in der Klavierliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts (in German). Gustav Bosse Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7649-2623-6.
  13. Neue Berliner Musikzeitung (in German). Bote & Bock. 1875.
  14. Es fällt ein Stern herunter: Op. 26 : [für Alt oder Bariton (in German), Wien: A. Bösendorfer, OCLC 68626318, retrieved 31 Dec 2020
  15. Revue belge de musicologie (in French). Société belge de musicologie. 2003.
  16. Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (in German). Breitkopf & Härtel. 1873.
  17. Hofmeister, Adolf Moritz (1893). Hofmeisters Handbuch der Musikliteratur (in German). F. Hofmeister.
  18. Neues Fremden-Blatt (in German). Isidor Heller u. Wilhelm Wiener. 1872.
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