Caroline Esterházy
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Caroline Esterházy | |
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| Born | 2 September 1805 |
| Died | 14 March 1851 (aged 45) |
Countess Caroline Esterházy de Galántha (Hungarian: galánthai grófnő Esterházy Karolina; 2 September 1805 – 14 March 1851) was a Hungarian noblewoman, and a friend and muse to composer Franz Schubert. A dedication of his Fantasia in F minor D 940 to her can be found in the posthumous first edition.
The Countess was born in 1805,[1][2] in Penzing (Vienna) to János Károly, Count Esterházy de Galántha and Countess Róza Festetics de Tolna. By birth she was a member of the wealthy and illustrious Esterházy family.
She received music lessons from Franz Schubert during the summers of 1818 and 1824 on her family estate at Zseliz (today Želiezovce).[3] To judge from her collection of music scores and the markings in them, it appears she was an accomplished pianist. After the summer of 1824, she and Schubert remained friends until his death in 1828.
On 8 April 1844, she married Count Karl Folliott de Crenneville-Poutet,[4] but the marriage broke down within a few months and the couple separated. She died in Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Bratislava in Slovakia), on 14 March 1851, from an intestinal disorder.
