Amalie Mauthner

Austro-Hungarian pianist and composer (1832–1951)

Amalie Mauthner

Born| 1832 (1832)

Pest, Kingdom of Hungary

Died| December 15, 1915(1915-12-15) (aged 82–83)

Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Resting place| Wiener Zentralfriedhof
Spouses|

Leopold Rawack

(m. 1853; div. 1861)​

Julius Epstein

(m. 1865)​

Musical career
Occupation(s)| Musician, composer, educator
Instrument(s)| Pianoforte

Musical artist

Amalie Mauthner (m. Epstein; 1832 – 15 December 1915) was an Austro-Hungarian pianist and composer.

## Biography[edit]

Mauthner was born in Pest to Jewish parents Zacharias and Theresia Mauthner. She received her early musical training in Vienna from Anton Halm [de], and began appearing in concert at the age of 12.[1] By the mid-1840s she had begun performing in concerts across Central Europe.

She married affluent Silesian merchant and amateur violinist Leopold Rawack in 1853, and the couple moved to Sydney amid the Australian gold rush. A daughter was born after three years of marriage, but died in infancy in February 1858.[2] Mauthner took up work as a music teacher,[3] joined the Sydney Philharmonic Society,[4] and performed in several highly praised concerts as a soloist.[5][6] Her only surviving composition, the waltz Novara-Klänge, was published in Germany in 1860 in celebration of the SMS Novora's visit to Australia.[7]

By 1861 she and Rawack had divorced, and she returned to Vienna that February.[4] She married pianist Julius Epstein in 1865, with whom she raised three children.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Seyfried, Ferdinand Ritter von (5 February 1845). "Kurier der Theater und Spectakel". Der Wanderer. Vol. 32, no. 31\. Vienna. p. 124.
2. ^ "Deaths". Empire. No. 2223\. Sydney. 19 February 1858. p. 4.
3. ^ Scherzer, Karl (1862). Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara. Vol. 3\. London: Saunders, Otley, and Co. p. 55\. ISBN 9781108059770.
4. ^ a b Skinner, Graeme (15 October 2016). "Leopold Rawack (Ravac) and Amalia Rawack". Australharmony. University of Sydney. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
5. ^ "Madame Rawack's Concert". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. 39, no. 6192\. 10 April 1858. p. 4.
6. ^ Moore, Joseph Sheridan (May 1858). "Madame Rawack's Concerts". The Month: A Literary and Critical Journal. 2. Sydney: J. R. Clarke: 249.
7. ^ Bergmann, Hanna; Babbe, Annkatrin. "Mauthner, Amalie". Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (in German). Bremen: Sophie Drinker Institut für musikwissenschaftliche Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung.

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