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Walburga Willmann
Walburga Willmann (full name Maximiliana Valentina Walburga Willmann; 18 May 1769 – 27 June 1835) was a German pianist and composer, one of a family of musicians. Life Walburga's father, Johann Ignaz Willmann (1739–1815) was a musician, playing flute, violin and cello. Walburga and her siblings Maximilian and Magdalena were born in Bonn between 1767 and 1771; her half-sister Caroline, daughter of Ignaz and his second wife Marianne de Tribolet, was born in 1796. ''Sophie Drinker Institut''. Retrieved 21 February 2023. Ignaz became in 1767 a member of the chamber orchestra of the in Bonn. The family moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximilian Willmann
Maximilian Willmann (full name Maximilian Friedrich Ludwig Willmann; 21 September 1767 – 7 March 1813) was a German cellist, one of a family of musicians. He played in the court orchestra of Bonn, and in Vienna. Life Willmann's father, Johann Ignaz Willmann (1739–1815) was a musician, playing flute, violin and cello. Maximilian and his sisters Walburga Willmann, Walburga and Magdalena Willmann, Magdalena were born in Bonn between 1767 and 1771; his half-sister Caroline Willmann, Caroline, daughter of Ignaz and his second wife Marianne de Tribolet, was born in 1796. ''Sophie Drinker Institut''. Retrieved 21 February 2023. Ignaz became in 1767 a member of the chamber orchestra of the Electorate of Cologne, Elector of Cologne in Bonn. The family moved to Vienna in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Willmann
Johanna Magdalena Willmann (13 September 1771 – 23 December 1801) was a German soprano, one of a family of musicians. She appeared in Bonn and at the court opera in Vienna. Life Willmann's father, Johann Ignaz Willmann (1739–1815) was a musician, playing flute, violin and cello. Magdalena and her siblings Maximilian and Walburga were born in Bonn between 1767 and 1771; her half-sister Caroline, daughter of Ignaz and his second wife Marianne de Tribolet, was born in 1796. Ignaz became in 1767 a member of the chamber orchestra of the Elector of Cologne in Bonn. The family moved to Vienna in the 1770s, and Ignaz joined the '' Tonkünstler-Sozietät''. In 1784 he arranged a concert in which Magdalena and her siblings Maximilian and Walburga gave their Viennese concert debut."Willmann, Familie" ''Oesterreichisches Musikle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Willmann
Caroline Willmann (full name Maria Anna Magdalena Caroline Willmann; 25 February 1796 – c. 1860) was a German operatic soprano, and in her early career a pianist. She was one of a family of musicians. Life Caroline was the daughter of Johann Ignaz Willmann (1739–1815), a musician, playing flute, violin and cello; and his second wife Marianne de Tribolet, an opera singer. Caroline was the half-sister of Maximilian, Walburga and Magdalena Willmann."Willmann, Familie" ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online'', 15 May 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2023. She was a pupil of in |
Marianne De Tribolet
Marianne Willmann (''née'' Anna Maria Antonetta de Tribolet; 17 February 1768 – 21 April 1813) was a German operatic soprano. She was one of a family of musicians. Life Marianne was born in Paderborn in 1768, the daughter of a professor of French at the University of Bonn. She did not belong to the Court music of Bonn, but sang in the opera, her first recorded appearance being in November 1790. She married in 1793 Ignaz Willmann (1739–1815), a musician, who played flute, violin and cello. She was his second wife, becoming stepmother to Maximilian, Walburga and Magdalena Willmann. Their daughter Caroline, an opera singer, was born in 1796."Willmann, Familie" ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online'', 15 May 2006. Retrieved 25 February 2023. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electorate Of Cologne
The Electorate of Cologne (german: Kurfürstentum Köln), sometimes referred to as Electoral Cologne (german: Kurköln, links=no), was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the 10th to the early 19th century. It consisted of the Hochstift — the temporal possessions — of the Archbishop of Cologne, and was ruled by him in his capacity as prince-elector. There were only two other ecclesiastical prince-electors in the Empire: the Electorate of Mainz and the Electorate of Trier. The Archbishop-Elector of Cologne was also Arch-chancellor of Italy (one of the three component titular kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire, the other two being Germany and Burgundy) and, as such, ranked second among all ecclesiastical and secular princes of the Empire, after the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, and before that of Trier. The capital of the electorate was Cologne. Conflicts with the citizens of Cologne caused the Elector to move to Bonn. The Free Imperial C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester
The Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester was an orchestra association in Vienna, which existed until 1933. History The predecessor institution was the Tonkünstler-Sozietät, which was founded in 1771 on the initiative of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann. The partnership was to organise musical events for the public in Vienna. The oratorio '' Betulia liberata'', composed by Gassmann and premiered on 19 March 1772, was the first performance of the partnership, whose main task was to care for the widows and orphans of deceased members. The name of the orchestra goes back to this historical musical institution and lived on in the Wiener Tonkünstler-Orchester, founded at the beginning of the 20th century, which gave its first concert on 10 October 1907 in the Wiener Musikverein under the conductors Oskar Nedbal, Hans Pfitzner and Bernhard Stavenhagen with works by Goldmark, Grieg, Liszt and Beethoven. The Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra made music history in 1913 with the world premi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture". Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurt Am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its namesake Main River, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.6 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, lies about northwest of the geographic center of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhine Franconian dialect area. Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the most import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Münster
Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state district capital. Münster was the location of the Anabaptist rebellion during the Protestant Reformation and the site of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648. Today it is known as the bicycle capital of Germany. Münster gained the status of a ''Großstadt'' (major city) with more than 100,000 inhabitants in 1915. , there are 300,000 people living in the city, with about 61,500 students, only some of whom are recorded in the official population statistics as having their primary residence in Münster. Münster is a part of the international Euregio region with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants (Enschede, Hengelo, Gronau, Osnabrück). History Early history In 793, Charlemagne sent out Ludger as a miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Xaver Süssmayr
Franz Xaver Süssmayr (German: ''Franz Xaver Süßmayr'', or ''Suessmayr'' in English; 1766 – September 17, 1803) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Popular in his day, he is now known primarily as the composer who completed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished Requiem. In addition, there have been performances of Süssmayr's operas at Kremsmünster, and his secular political cantata (1796), ''Der Retter in Gefahr'', SmWV 302, received its first full performance in over 200 years in June 2012 in a new edition by Mark Nabholz, conducted by Terrence Stoneberg. There are also CD recordings of his unfinished clarinet concerto (completed by Michael Freyhan), one of his German requiems, and his Missa Solemnis in D. Works His works include the following: * Two masses (SmWV 101–102) * Two requiems (SmWV 103–104) * Seven offertories (SmWV 112–115, 117–119, 123, 125, 144–145, 156) * A gradual (SmWV 143) * Psalms * A magnificat * Hymns * ''Agonia e morte di Mozart'' (fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He was the ''de facto'' leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804, then Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814 and again in 1815. Napoleon's political and cultural legacy endures to this day, as a highly celebrated and controversial leader. He initiated many liberal reforms that have persisted in society, and is considered one of the greatest military commanders in history. His wars and campaigns are studied by militaries all over the world. Between three and six million civilians and soldiers perished in what became known as the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica, not long af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Mainz on the left bank, and Wiesbaden, the capital of the neighbouring state Hesse, on the right bank. Mainz is an independent city with a population of 218,578 (as of 2019) and forms part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Mainz was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans in the 1st century BC as a military fortress on the northernmost frontier of the empire and provincial capital of Germania Superior. Mainz became an important city in the 8th century AD as part of the Holy Roman Empire, capital of the Electorate of Mainz and seat of the Elector of Mainz, Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, the Primate (bishop), Primate of Germany. Mainz is famous as the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
