Fanny Hünerwadel

Fanny Hünerwadel ( born January 26, 1826 in Lenzburg, † April 27, 1854 in Rome) was a Swiss composer of Lenzburg.

Fanny Hünerwadel was in Lenzburg home right and came of an old established family of this city. She was the eldest child of physician Johann Friedrich Hünerwadel and regulators Speerli, which were both avid music lovers. After she was initially taught by his mother, Hünerwadel in Lenzburg Philipp Tietz, Joseph Breitenbach and Ludwig learned short to play the piano and was a member of the local choral society. From 1846 she studied with Hans Naegeli and at the Wagner -boyfriend Alexander Müller in Zurich piano, singing, music theory and composition. In the Zurich time she made ​​the acquaintance of Johann W. Kalliwoda, Richard Wagner, Ferdinand Huber, Franz Liszt, Franz Abt, Wilhelm Baumgartner and Henri Vieuxtemps.

From 1849 they had public appearances. Than singer and pianist, so in benefit concerts of her teacher Müller, Wagner concerts and at the Music Society, in Zurich She sang in 1851 for the inauguration of the new organ Lenzburger. Also in 1851, she visited Paris and London. In 1852 she played the " Rondo brillant " by Johann Nepomuk Hummel in a subscription concert of the Music Society, Zurich, from which today's Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. For further they traveled in 1853 to Rome and Florence.

In Florence, she took singing lessons in Romani. In Rome, she was the 1853 guest artist families Corrodi and Imhof and took lessons with the singing teacher Parisotti. Hünerwadel died on 27 April 1854 in Rome with typhus and was buried there on 30 April. Six of the seven extant piano songs Hünerwadels were published posthumously ( in 1854 ).