Maria Anna von Genzinger

Maria Anna Sabina (von) Genzinger (6 November 1754[1] – 26 January 1793), called Marianne, was a Viennese amateur musician, the mother of six children, and a friend of the composer Joseph Haydn. Her correspondence with Haydn preserves a personal view of the composer not available from any other biographical source.[2] Her daughter Josepa was a singer who gave the first performance of Haydn's Ariadne auf Naxos.[3]

  1. ^ Vienna University Archive, Liber Societatis Viduarum, fol. 90.
  2. ^ Geiringer 1982, 90
  3. ^ According to an OUP review of Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria. Ed by David Wyn Jones, pp. xi + 291. (Cambridge University Press, 1996, £40. ISBN 0-521-45349-6.)