Fanny Hünerwadel (26 January 1826 – 27 April 1854) was a Swiss pianist, singer and

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Hünerwadel was a native of

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and came from a long-established family of the city. She was the oldest child of the physician Johann Friedrich Hünerwadel and Speerli Regula, who were both avid music lovers. Hünerwadel was first taught music by her mother, and then studied piano under Philipp Tietz, Joseph Breitenbach and Ludwig Kurz. She also belonged to the local choral society. In 1846 she began studied piano, voice, music theory and composition with Hans Nägeli and Alexander Müller (1808–1863) in Zurich. From 1849, she made public appearances as a singer and pianist, performing benefit concerts at the Universal Music Company in Zurich. She sang in 1851 to inaugurate the new Lenzburg organ. Also, in 1851 she visited

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and

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. In 1852, she played ''Rondo Brilliant'' by

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in a subscription concert of the General Music Society of Zurich, from which today's Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich emerged. In 1853 as part of her training, she traveled to

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and

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. In Florence, she took singing lessons with

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. In Rome in 1853 she was guest of artists and families Corrodi Imhof and took lessons in singing teacher Parisotti. Hünerwadel died of

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on 27 April 1854 in Rome. Six of her seven existing piano songs were posthumously published in 1854.

Discography

*MGB CD 6153: "Richard Wagner and his composer friends in Zurich". Songs "Morning Song" and "Spring" by Fanny Hünerwadel.

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*
Two articles in the Bulletin of the Peter Mieg Foundation (June 1998) by Beat Hanselmann and Chris Walton
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