Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Amalie von Sachsen! 👑🙏🏼 Composer: Amalie von Sachsen (1794-1870) Work: Stabat Mater in f-moll () Performers: Felicitas Wrеdе (soprano); Henriette Göddе (alto); Martin Lаttkе (tenor), Tomáš Krаl (bass); Sächsischеs Vocalensemble; Musica Flοrea; Mаtthiаs Jung (conductor) Painting: Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) - Blick auf Dresden bei Sonnenuntergang () HD image: Painting: Vicente López Portaña (1772-1850) - Porträt der Amalie von Sachsen HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Amalie von Sachsen [Maria Amalia Friederike Augusta Karolina Ludovica Josepha Aloysia Anna Nepomucena Philippina Vincentia Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal] (Dresden, 10 August 1794 - Dresden, 18 September 1870) German writer and composer. Daughter of Prince Maximilian of Saxony (1759-1838) and Princess Carolina of Parma (1770-1804), she was taught the piano by Joseph Schuster, singing by Vincenzo Rastrelli and Johann Miksch, and music theory by Franz Anton Schubert and Carl Maria von Weber. She began writing music in 1811 and composed numerous operas, popular among the Dresden elite. She published her musical works under the pseudonym A. Serena. Her most popular compositions were her comedic operas, among them, Le nozze funeste (1816), L’Americana (1820), Vecchiezza e gioventù (1826) and La casa disabitata (1835). She portrayed her characters with innovation and color. She also wrote several sacred works, which included a Stabat Mater (), a Litaniae, a Magnificat (1831) and two Salve Regina. She spent her whole life in Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden and in 1817 she married to Franciscus de Merendonque. After 1835 she stopped composing and wrote comedies, using the pseudonym Amalie Heiter.
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