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Auguste Auspitz-Kolár (19 March 1844 – 26 December 1878 was a Bohemian-born Austrian pianist and composer.

The daughter of Josef Jiří Kolár, actor, director and translator, and Anna Manetinská Kolárová, a singer, she was born Auguste Kolár in Prague and studied piano with Bedřich Smetana and then Josef Proksch in Prague and with Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady in Paris. In 1865, she travelled to Vienna where she performed in concerts held by the Hellmesberger Quartet. She also performed in concert with Clara Schumann. Auspitz-Kolár performed in London during the summers of 1868 and 1870.

In 1868, she married physician Heinrich Auspitz. She continued performing until her son Hans was born in 1875.

Auspitz-Kolar died in Vienna.

External resources

• Auguste Auspitz-Kolár papers, ca. 1858-1902 (her personal papers) in the Music & Recorded Sound Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

References

1. Birth record Prague, St. Jindřich, 1842-1845, scan 167
2. Death records, Vienna, Unsere liebe Frau zu den Schotten, 1873-1889, scan 99
3. ^ "Auguste Kolar papers". New York Public Library.
4. ^ "Auspitz-Kolár, Auguste, Augusta, geb. Kolár, Kolaróva". Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (in German). Sophie Drinker Institut.

• 1844 births
• 1878 deaths
• Musicians from Prague
• Austrian classical pianists
• Women classical pianists
• Austrian women classical composers
• Pianists from Austria-Hungary
• 19th-century Austrian musicians
• 19th-century women pianists
• 19th-century Austrian women composers
• 19th-century Austrian composers