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Anna Leopoldine Theresia Elisabetha von Schaden (* 2 June 1763 in Ebelsberg near Linz; † 17 January 1834 in Regensburg) was an Austrian-German pianist, composer and singer.

Life

Nanette von Schaden was born in 1763 as the illegitimate daughter of Leopold Count Pranck (1728-1793), Director of the Salzburg Court War Council, and Walburga Stadler in Ebelsberg, Upper Austria (today a district of Linz). She moved to Vienna with her mother when she was about eleven and received a good education, including piano lessons, at the home of Imperial Court Councillor Friedrich von Mauchart (1736-1781).

In 1779, she married the Wallerstein court counsellor Joseph von Schaden (1754-1814) and settled with him in the Wallerstein residence, where she soon gained an excellent reputation as a pianist and performed with the Wallerstein court orchestra. In 1787, the Schadens moved to Augsburg, where Joseph von Schaden took up the post of Imperial City Councillor.

In 1787, she made the acquaintance of Ludwig van Beethoven. In the same year, she also wrote her first composition, a short rondo. Two piano concertos, which she probably wrote together with Antonio Rosetti, were published by 1788.

At the beginning of 1793, Nanette von Schaden separated from her husband and moved with her two daughters Maria Anna Antonia (1784-1819) and Josepha Amalia (1786-1843) to Regensburg to live with her father, where she died in 1834.

Nanette von Schaden dedicated her Concerto in Bb Major to Madame la Baronne de Schlammersdorf nee Baronne de Lentersheim, and her Concerto in G Major to Madame la Comtesse de Taufkirchen.

At least two works were dedicated to her: Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel’s Keyboard Concerto in Bb Major StWV 152, and Heinrich Marchaud’s Ten Variations for Piano in Bb Major Opus 1.

Although von Schaden is reported to have composed piano sonatas and other pieces, only three remain today, all published by Speier.

Source Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_von_Schaden