Johanna Loisinger

Johanna Maria Louise Loisinger, married Countess of Hartenau ( born April 18, 1865 in Bratislava, † 20 July 1951, Vienna) was an Austrian opera singer (soprano) and piano virtuoso. She became the Countess of Hartenau through marriage.

Life

Johanna was born as the only daughter of the conductor Johann Loisinger and his wife Maria Mayr on April 18, 1865 in Pressburg, now Bratislava (Slovakia). Johanna was after her training as a soprano singer in Prague, Opava, Linz and finally at the court theater in Darmstadt. She was a well-known Mozart singer of her time.

On February 6, 1889, she married in Menton the former Prince of Bulgaria, Alexander Joseph of Battenberg, the second son of Prince Alexander of Hesse- Darmstadt and Princess Julia Hauke ​​. After marriage, the couple took the name of Count or Countess of Hartenau and withdrew from public life. Alexander joined the imperial army and lived with his family in Graz. From this marriage two children were born:

• Tsvetana ( Marie Therese Vera), Countess of Hartenau (* 1893; died on December 24, 1935 in Oberstdorf impoverished )

After the early death of her husband in 1893, she moved with her ​​children to Vienna. From the Bulgarian state of the family were granted 50,000 leva annual pension. There they sat down one in the promotion of Viennese musical life and was involved in the building of the Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg. She was among other things chair of the Vienna Mozart Society, the Vienna Concert Association of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and.

Villa Hartenau in Graz- Geidorf: Residence 1889-1893