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Harnoncourt
The Harnoncourt-Unverzagt family is an old Austrian noble family, which came to Austria from the Duchy of Lorraine, but originated in Luxembourg. History Counts d'Harnoncourt intermarried with Unverzagt family in the 18th century when Joseph Ludwig Matthias de la Fontaine, Count of Harnoncourt (1736–1816) married Countess Maria Leopoldine Unverzagt (1754–1835), who was the last of her line. Their son Count Herbert Ludwig de la Fontaigne, Count of Harnoncourt (1789–1846), took over her coat of arms in 1839 and called himself Graf von Harnoncourt-Unverzagt. All members of the family have descended from him and his wife, Countess Sophie von Haugwitz (1798–1859). Notable members * Alice d'Harnoncourt (1930–2022), Austrian violinist, wife of Nikolaus * Anne d'Harnoncourt Anne Julie d'Harnoncourt (September 7, 1943 – June 1, 2008) was an American curator, museum director, and art historian specializing in modern art. She was the director and CEO of the Philadelphia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt (6 December 1929 – 5 March 2016) was an Austrian conductor, known for his historically informed performances. He specialized in music of the Baroque period, but later extended his repertoire to include Classical and early Romantic works. Among his best known recordings are those of Bach, whose 193 cantatas he recorded with Gustav Leonhardt. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble, Concentus Musicus Wien, in 1953, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement. Around 1970, Harnoncourt began conducting opera and concert performances, soon leading international symphony orchestras, and appearing at leading concert halls, operatic venues and festivals. In 2001 and 2003, he conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert. Harnoncourt was also the author of several books, mostly on subjects of performance history and musical aesthetics. Early life Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt was born as an Austrian citizen i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Harnoncourt
Philipp Harnoncourt or Philipp Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt (9 February 1931 – 25 May 2020) was an Austrian theologian, priest and musician. Born into a noble family, he grew up in Graz and decided to become a priest at age 17. He studied in Graz and Munich. In 1963 he founded a department of church music at the later Kunstuniversität Graz. He was appointed professor at the University of Graz in 1972 and was head of the institute of liturgics, Christian art and hymnology until his retirement in 1999. Inspired by the Second Vatican Council, he contributed to the first common Catholic hymnal in German, '' Gotteslob'', and supported ecumenism especially with Orthodox Churches, as a member of the board of '' Pro Oriente'' from 1986. He focused on the Trinity, founded the art prize ''1+1+1=1'' for new works related to the concept, and initiated the restoration of a chapel first dedicated to the Trinity. Life Philipp Harnoncourt was born into nobility in Berl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladislaja Harnoncourt
Ladislaja Harnoncourt, née Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven (8 October 1899 – 22 July 1997) was a member of the Austrian Harnoncourt family. She raised seven children, two of them from her husband's first marriage, including the conductor and pioneer of historically informed performance, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and the priest and patron of the arts Philipp Harnoncourt. Life Ladislaja Johanna Franziska Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven, was born in 1899. She was the great-granddaughter of the Habsburg Archduke Johann, the 13th child of Emperor Leopold II, a descendant of various Holy Roman Emperors and other European royalty. Her grandfather was Franz, Count of Meran, who bought Schloss Stainz, a former monastery in Styria, where she was born. Her father was his son, , and her mother Ladislaja Maria Karoline Franziska Therese Gräfin von Lamberg. As a girl, she was regarded as ineducable, and was nicknamed "Die wilde Laja" (The wild Laja). She was a good dancer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Harnoncourt
Alice Harnoncourt (; 26 September 1930 – 20 July 2022) was an Austrian classical violinist. She was a pioneer in the movement of historically informed performance, founding with her husband Nikolaus Harnoncourt the Concentus Musicus Wien ensemble playing on period instruments, of which she was principal violinist. Life and career Born on 26 September 1930 in Vienna, Alice Hoffelner studied violin and other stringed instruments. She first pursued a career as a soloist, but then became interested in Baroque violin, and studied it with , together with her future husband Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In 1953, they married and founded the period instrument ensemble Concentus Musicus Wien (CMW). Their ensemble strongly influenced and changed the performance and recording of early music by contemporary musicians, as it emphasized the use of period instruments, and knowledge about how to play them. She was the ensemble's concertmaster and often played as a soloist, until 1985. Until 1968, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne D'Harnoncourt
Anne Julie d'Harnoncourt (September 7, 1943 – June 1, 2008) was an American curator, museum director, and art historian specializing in modern art. She was the director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), a post she held from 1982 until her sudden death in 2008."Anne d'Harnoncourt Papers: Historical Notes" Philadelphia Museum of Art, Retrieved 18 June 2014. She was also an expert scholar on the works of French artist . Biography Early life and education d'Harnoncourt was born on September 7, 1943, in |
Franz Harnoncourt
Franz Harnoncourt, or Harnoncourt-Unverzagt (born 2 August 1937) is an Austrian jurist, CEO of the Kastner & Öhler department store in Graz, and president and member of the advisory board of the Grazer Wechselseitige Versicherung. Life and career Harnoncourt was born in Graz, the seventh child of Eberhard Harnoncourt and his wife Ladislaja, née Countess of . He is a brother of the physician Karl Harnoncourt, the late conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the late theologian Philipp Harnoncourt. He studied law at the University of Graz and promoted to the doctorate. He then began work as a tax advisor for , including two years in the U.S. He then worked in department stores, in Germany for Karstadt, and for Marks & Spencer in the UK. He began at the Kastner & Öhler, including jobs such as sales person and storage worker, and served as CEO for decades. From 1982 to 2012, he was also president and member of the supervisory board of the Grazer Wechselseitige Versicherung insuranc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Harnoncourt
Karl Harnoncourt (born 12 August 1934) is an Austrian physician and academic teacher. Life Harnoncourt was born into nobility in Graz, the son of Eberhard Harnoncourt (1896–1970) and Ladislaja Johanna Franziska née Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven. He studied medicine at the University of Graz and was promoted to Ph.D. in 1958. He specialised as an ''internist'' at the Landeskrankenhaus (LKH) in Graz, and was habilitated in 1973. He headed a department of the LKH from 1977 to 1999. From 1989, he was president of the institute for preventive medicine of the Joanneum, and from 1989 to 1991 president of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Pneumologie. He served from 1993 as president of the Landessanitätsrats Steiermark, and from 1995 as director of the (KAGes). He was influential in the manufacturing of instruments for arterial blood gas test which were made in the 1960s by AVL based on his research. He introduced ultrasonic examinations as the basis for spirome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Nobility
The Austrian nobility () is a status group that was officially abolished in 1919 after the fall of Austria-Hungary. Austria's system of nobility was very similar to that of Germany (see German nobility), as both countries were previously part of the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806). Any noble living in the Habsburg-ruled lands, and who owed allegiance to the dynasty and therefore to the emperor, was also considered part of the Austrian aristocracy. This applied to any member of the Bohemian, Hungarian, Polish, Croatian, and other nobilities in the Habsburg dominions. Attempting to differentiate between ethnicities can be difficult, especially for nobles during the eras of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy (1867–1918). A noble from Galicia, for instance, such as the Count Jordan-Rozwadowski (see section "Noble titles" below under ''Graf/Gräfin'' (count/countess)), could call himself a Polish noble, but he also rightfully belonged to the Austrian nobil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Habsburg Empire
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm (), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities (composite monarchy) that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it is also referred to as the Austrian monarchy, the Austrian Empire () or the Danubian monarchy. The history of the Habsburg monarchy can be traced back to the election of Rudolf I as King of Germany in 1273 and his acquisition of the Duchy of Austria for the Habsburgs in 1282. In 1482, Maximilian I acquired the Netherlands through marriage. Both realms passed to his grandson and successor, Charles V, who also inherited the Spanish throne and its colonial possessions, and thus came to rule the Habsburg empire at its greatest territorial extent. The abdication of Charles V in 1556 led to a division within the dynasty between his son Philip II of Spain and his brother Ferdinand I, who had served as his lieutenant and the elected king of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchy Of Lorraine
The Duchy of Lorraine was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire which existed from the 10th century until 1766 when it was annexed by the kingdom of France. It gave its name to the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France. Its capital was Nancy. It was founded in 959 following the division of Lotharingia into two separate duchies: Upper and Lower Lorraine, the westernmost parts of the Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages, and lasted for a millennium .... The Lower duchy was quickly dismantled, while Upper Lorraine came to be known as simply the Duchy of Lorraine. The Duchy of Lorraine was coveted and briefly occupied by the dukes of Burgundy and the kings of France, but was ruled by the dukes of the House of Lorraine after 1473. In 1737, the duchy was give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luxembourg
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembourg City, is one of the four institutional seats of the European Union and hosts several EU institutions, notably the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority in the EU. As part of the Low Countries, Luxembourg has close historic, political, and cultural ties to Belgium and the Netherlands. Luxembourg's culture, people, and languages are greatly influenced by France and Germany: Luxembourgish, a Germanic language, is the only recognized national language of the Luxembourgish people and of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; French is the sole language for legislation; and both languages along with German are used for administrative matters. With an area of , Luxembourg is Europe's seventh-smallest count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
