Marianna Auenbrugger (19 July 1759 – 25 August 1782) was an Austrian pianist and composer.

Biography

Born in

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, Auenbrugger was the daughter of the physician

Leopold Auenbrugger Josef Leopold Auenbrugger or Avenbrugger (19 November 1722 – 17 May 1809), also known as Leopold von Auenbrugger, was an Austrian physician who invented percussion as a diagnostic technique. On the strength of this discovery, he is consid ...

. She was a highly regarded pianist and composer in Vienna. Together with her sister Caterina Franziska, she was a student of

Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

and

Antonio Salieri Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg monarchy ...

. In 1780, Haydn dedicated a cycle of six sonatas to the two sisters (Hob XVI :35-39 and 20). When Marianne died in 1782, Salieri, at his own expense, published her Keyboard Sonata in E-flat together with his own funeral Ode ''De si piacevoli''.

External links

* Melanie Unseld, "Auenbrugger, Katharina". In: Lexikon "Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts", https://www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/auenbrugger-katharina. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Auenbrugger, Marianna 1759 births 1782 deaths 18th-century Austrian musicians 18th-century Austrian women 18th-century Austrian women writers 18th-century Austrian writers 18th-century classical composers 18th-century keyboardists Austrian classical composers Austrian classical pianists Austrian women composers Musicians from Vienna Pupils of Antonio Salieri Pupils of Joseph Haydn Austrian women classical pianists Musicians from the Holy Roman Empire