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Countess Anna Maria (Marie) von Erdődy Born Countess von Niczky (8 September 1779 in Arad (Banat); died 17 March 1837 in Munich) was a Hungarian noblewoman and among the closest confidantes and friends of Ludwig van Beethoven.[1]
Life
On June 6, 1796, she married Count Péter Erdődy of Monyorokerék and Monte Claudio, scion of the noted Erdődy line of the Hungarian/Croatian aristocracy. They had three children, two daughters and a son. On May 3, 1798, Marie was honoured by induction into the imperial Order of the Starry Cross. In 1805 she separated from her husband and later settled into a marriage-like relationship with Franz Xaver Brauchle (1783-1838), her secretary and childrens' music teacher, who later became a composer.[1]
Marie Erdődy was one of the great admirers of Beethoven early on. In 1808 Beethoven moved into her large apartment on the Krugerstraße, No. 1074, residing there with Marie until 1809. In addition, the Countess inherited a small estate in Jedlesee near Vienna, which today houses the Beethoven Memorial Vienna-Floridsdorf.[1]
Beethoven dedicated to Marie Erdődy the two Piano Trios opus 70 no. 1 and opus 70 no. 2, the cello sonatas opus 102 nos. 1 and 2, written for the cellist Joseph Linke, and the canon Glück, Happy New Year (WoO 176, 1819).
From 1815 she lived in Paucovec in Croatia, later in Padua. In December 1823 she was expelled from Austria and moved to Munich.
Further reading
- Gail S. Altman, Beethoven: A Man of His Word - Undisclosed Evidence for his Immortal Beloved (Anubian Press, 1998)
- Alfred Schöne, Briefe von Beethoven an Marie Gräfin Erdödy, geb. Gräfin Niszky, und Mag. Brauchle, Leipzig 1867 (Digitalisat at Google Books).
- Günther Haupt, Gräfin Erdödy und J. X. Brauchle, in: Der Bär. Jahrbuch von Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1927, S. 70–99.
- Das Testament der Gräfin Maria Erdödy, geb. Niczky, hrsg. von Erich Krapf und Rudolf Hösch, in: Festschrift anläßlich des zehnjährigen Bestandes des „Vereines der Freunde der Beethoven-Gedenkstätte in Floridsdorf“, Wien 1981, S. 27 f.
- Robert Münster: Anna Maria Gräfin Erdödy. In: Johannes Fischer (Hrsg.): Münchener Beethoven-Studien. Katzbichler, München 1992, ISBN 3-87397-421-5, S. 217–224.
Notes
- ^ a b c Gail S. Altman, Beethoven: A Man of His Word - Undisclosed Evidence for his Immortal Beloved (Anubian Press, 1998)