Princess Julie Furstin von Waldburg-Wurzach (27 April 1841 – 7 December 1914) was an Austrian composer who published over 60 works for voice and/or piano. She was born in Vienna to Count Frans and Frantiska Dubsky von Trebomyslicz. In 1858, she married Prince Eberhard Waldburg-Wurzach, becoming his second wife. They had two daughters, Marie and Elizabeth Sophie.
One of Waldburg-Wurzach's teachers was pianist and composer Julie von Pfeilschifter, who lived with the family at Schloss Kißlegg [de] in Württemberg in 1872, then moved with them to Salzburg in 1874. Franz Liszt reviewed Waldburg-Wurzach's compositions in at least one letter in 1874. He suggested a simpler notation for her "Mondlied"; edited the text of "Comme à Vingt Ans"; and noted that her song dedicated to Mme Ehnn, "Liebeshoffnung," "please me particularly."
In addition to composing, Waldburg-Wurzach provided significant help to several people. In 1875, she used her social contacts at Cotta Verlag (today Klett-Cotta Verlag) to help her half-sister Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach begin publishing some of her writing, She visited Ferdinand von Zeppelin after he crashed his aircraft in Allgau, Germany, on 17 January 1906. In 1908, she helped organize a fundraiser and signed an ad in a Wiesbaden newspaper to raise money for her teacher Julie von Pfeilschifter.
Waldburg-Wurzach's music was published by Bosworth & Company and Carl Ruhle. Her compositions include:
Piano
- Five Piano Keys for Small Hands, Op. 34
- Hochzeitsfanfare (march)
- Mitzi-polka
- Ohne Ende (polka-mazurka) Op. 15
- Sonnenblumenwalzer
- Tagesneuigkeiten, Op. 12 (polka)
Vocal
- "Comme a vingt ans" Op. 32 (text by Emile Barateau)
- "Drie Lieder" Op. 31 (text by Heinrich Heine and Baron von Eschenbach)
- "Es faelit ein Stern herunter" Op. 26 (text by Heinrich Heine)
- "Es hat nicht sollen sein" Op. 50 (text by Joseph Victor von Scheffel)
- "Frau Nachtigall" Op. 25
- "Herbstklage" Op. 29 (text by Nikolaus Lenau)
- "Lass' mich vor dir niedersinken" Op. 48 (text by Barbara Elisabeth Gluck as Betty Paoli)
- "Lebe wohl" Op. 15
- "Lehn deine Wang' an meine Wang' " Op. 45 (text by Heinrich Heine)
- "Lieder Album" Op. 33 (text by Nikolaus Lenau; Eduard Morike; Hermann Oelschlager; Robert Reinick, and Emanuel von Geibel)
- "O du, vor dem die Stuerme schweigen" Op. 24
- "O Herz du musst dich fassen" Op. 23 (text by Robert Prutz)
- "Schilflied Auf dem Teich dem regungslosen" Op. 60
- "To the Moon" Op. 27
- "Ungarisches Lied" Op. 13
- "Verriet Mein blasses Angesicht" Op. 7 (text by Heinrich Heine)
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