The Marriage Letters of Joseph Deym and Josephine Brunsvik-Deym

Documents from Beethoven’s Milieu 1799–1804

Rita Steblin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

500 Seiten

2024
Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
978-3-99094-227-7 (ISBN)

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Countess Josephine Brunsvik-Deym-Stackelberg was the woman Beethoven loved, his "only beloved," his "everything," and the "angel of my heart." Nowhere does she come more vividly to life than in the 108 surviving letters that Josephine and her first husband, Count Joseph Deym exchanged between 1800 and 1803. They reveal the day-to-day concerns and social circumstances of a young wife and mother of noble birth, highly intelligent and musical, in the early nineteenth century. Joseph was a famous entrepreneur and wax-figure artist, and the Deym house on Rotenturmtor was Vienna's largest tourist attraction. The richly annotated first edition of the marriage letters is rounded off by official documents and letters concerning the Deym's wedding and Joseph's death. Beethoven, who was Josephine's piano teacher for several years and often performed in her Viennese home, is mentioned repeatedly in other Brunsvik family letters of these years, here edited in English translation together with the memoirs of Josephine's elder sister Therese. Two final chapters provide detailed biographical material on Joseph Deym and his wax museum, and on the Brunsvik family.

Rita Steblin (1951-2019) studied musicology in Canada and the U.S.A., and harpsichord and performance practice at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna. Her research centred on the life and works of Schubert and Beethoven. Her books include "Die Unsinnsgesellschaft. Franz Schubert, Leopold Kupelwieser und ihr Freundeskreis" and "Beethoven in the Diaries of Johann Nepomuk Chotek".

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Wiener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikwissenschaft ; 57
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
Schlagworte	Joseph Deym • Josephine Brunsvik-Deym-Stackelberg • Ludwig van Beethoven • marriage letters • Musikgeschichte • Musikwissenschaft • Rita Steblin
ISBN-10	3-99094-227-1 / 3990942271
ISBN-13	978-3-99094-227-7 / 9783990942277
Zustand	Neuware