A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Karajan, Theodor

KARAJAN, Theodor Georg, Ritter von, Dr. juris, philologist and historian, born at Vienna Jan. 22, 1810; clerk (1841) and custos (1854) in the court library, appointed vice-president (1851) and president (1859) of the Akademie der Wissenschaften; received the order of Leopold in 1870, and died April 28, 1873. His philological works are numerous and important; but his title to admission here is his pamphlet, 'J. Hadyn in London, 1791 and 1792' (Vienna, Gerold, 1861). In addition to matter from the well-known pamphlets of Dies and Griesinger, it contains a number of Hadyn's letters, chiefly from London and Estoras, to his friend Maria Anna von Genzinger, the wife of Leopold Peter, Edler von Genzinger, an esteemed physician, with four from the lady herself. She played the piano well, and even composed. Haydn wrote several sonatas for her, and whenever he was in Vienna spent much of his time at her house, where a pleasant musical society was generally to be found. Karajan also furnished his friend Otto Jahn with valuable material for his book on Mozart.

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