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Gabriele (or Gabriella) Baumberg (or Bamberg) (24 March 1766 – 24 July 1839), wife of János Batsányi (also Bacsányi), was an Austrian author and poet.
Baumberg was born in Vienna, the daughter of an Austrian civil servant. She received a humanistic education and from early on was fascinated by literature. As a result of her interest she later frequented the literary circles of Vienna.
She married the Hungarian author János Batsányi in 1805. Her husband translated Author: Gabriele von Baumberg (1766–1839)
Lieder.Net In 1793, she set the theme of the first movement of Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 50, No. 1 to words, for inscription on a monument honouring Haydn in the composer's home town of
* ''Amor und Hymen'' (1807) (volume of poetry)
zgedichte.de
''Sämmtliche Gedichte Gabrielens von Baumberg'' (1800)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baumberg, Gabriele 1766 births 1839 deaths Writers from Vienna Austrian women poets
Gabriele (or Gabriella) Baumberg (or Bamberg) (24 March 1766 – 24 July 1839), wife of János Batsányi (also Bacsányi), was an Austrian author and poet.
Life
Baumberg was born in Vienna, the daughter of an Austrian civil servant. She received a humanistic education and from early on was fascinated by literature. As a result of her interest she later frequented the literary circles of Vienna.
She married the Hungarian author János Batsányi in 1805. Her husband translated Napoleon
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's proclamation into Hungarian after which, as a traitor, he was obliged to flee to Paris, taking his wife with him.
After the end of the Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...
Batsányi was handed over to the Austrian authorities, who at first imprisoned him in Vienna and then exiled him to Linz
Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846.
In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
. Gabriele accompanied him to both places, and died in Linz in 1839.
She wrote short poems and prose pieces throughout her life. Several of Baumberg's poems were set to music by W. A. 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 r ...
, Franz Xaver Mozart
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (26 July 1791 – 29 July 1844), also known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jr., was the youngest child of six born to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younger of his parents' two surviving children. ...
, and Schubert.Lieder.Net In 1793, she set the theme of the first movement of Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 50, No. 1 to words, for inscription on a monument honouring Haydn in the composer's home town of
Rohrau, Austria
Rohrau (german: Marktgemeinde Rohrau) is a village in the state of Lower Austria. The name comes from two German words: ''Rohr'' (reed) and ''Au'' (riparian forest). South of the village is a riparian forest and a swamp covered with reed.
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Selected works
* ''Sämmtliche Gedichte'' (1800) 'Complete Poems''br>online* ''Amor und Hymen'' (1807) (volume of poetry)
Notes
References
Sources * * *Further reading
* Wolfram Seidler: ''Gabriele Baumberg (1766–1839), ihr Nachlass in der Bibliothek der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.'' In: István Németh, András Vizkelety (ed.): ''Ex libris et manuscriptis. Quellen, Editionen, Untersuchungen zur österreichischen und ungarischen Geistesgeschichte.'' Akad. Kiadó, Budapest 1994, , pp. 79–90 (''Schriftenreihe des Komitees Österreich-Ungarn'' 3). *External links
* * *zgedichte.de
''Sämmtliche Gedichte Gabrielens von Baumberg'' (1800)
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