Therese Malfatti

Therese of Droßdik ( born Malfatti; * January 1, 1792 in Vienna, † April 27, 1851 ibid, 1806, Malfatti von Rohr Bach to Dezza ) was an Austrian musician and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Life

Therese Malfatti was the daughter of the Viennese merchant Jacob Malfatti Friedrich (1769-1829) and a cousin of the famous and wealthy physician Johann Baptist Malfatti ( 1775-1859 ). Her father, who had an estate in Walkersdorf 1804 am Kamp, was charged on April 2, 1806 entitled " Edler von Rohr Bach to Dezza " in the hereditary peerage. Her younger sister Anna (1792-1869) married on 29 May 1811 in Etsdorf am Kamp Beethoven's friend, Ignaz von Gleichenstein.

By Gleichenstein 1810 Beethoven came into contact with Therese's family, he felt at the well. He wrote:

" I thank you good g that thou hast brought me there. "

Beethoven Therese made ​​in the spring of 1810, a marriage proposal, as the musicologist Ludwig Nohl later learned from her sister, but obviously got a rejection. The plan for a marriage to Therese Malfatti also comes in several letters by the composer to the expression:

• Beethoven's letter to Nicholas Zmeskall of Domanovecz of 18 April 1810: "Do not witch was the situation in which I am, as once the Queen Omphale Hercules bey? [ ... ] I never had the power or the weakness of human nature as felt as izt. "
• His request to Gleichenstein to get him to 300 fl shirting and Scarves
• His request to Wegeler on May 2, 1810 to receive a baptismal certificate
• His letter to Therese end of May 1810 with the statement " you in Forgot the Great "
• Breuning message to Wegeler August 11, 1810 Beethoven's " Heyraths Parthie has been shattered. "
• The response to Therese's obvious rejection: "Your message threw myself from the regions of highest rapture again deep down. "

Therese married on 14 June 1816 in Worms the Imperial Councillor Johann Wilhelm von Droßdik ( 1771-1852 ). Therese of Droßdik described himself in his old age as a pupil of Beethoven and played his sonatas with " incomparable virtuosity ". Little is observed her friendship with Franz Schubert, whom she invited in the carnival in 1828 as one of its annual house balls.

Album Leaf "Für Elise"

Beethoven sent Therese the Piano Sonata op 78 They also owned the now lost autograph of the mentioned Für Elise Bagatelle WoO 59 ( ' Für Elise on April 27 in memory of L. v. Bthvn "). Ludwig Nohl discovered it in 1865 at Babette Bredl in Munich. Thither the autograph came through Bredl `s illegitimate son, the pianist Rudolf Schachner, who had been Therese Malfatti family friend and had inherited their music. Even though Nohl expressly noted, the piece was "not written for Therese ," said Max Unger, 1923, the thesis that Nohl misread and dedication should be " For Therese ". It was in 2010 asked by Klaus Martin Kopitz in question, who is presumed to have the Beethoven piece for Elisabeth Rockel composed.