Pachler-Koschak, Marie Leopoldine

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Pachler-Koschak, Marie Leopoldine

Pachler-Koschak, Marie Leopoldine, Austrian pianist; b. Graz, Oct. 2, 1792; d. there, April 10, 1855. She was an enthusiastic admirer of Beethoven, who wrote to her in 1817: “I have found no one, not excepting the great pianists, who interprets my compositions as well as you” In 1816 she married Dr. Karl Pachler, a lawyer in Graz. In their house Franz Schubert spent several weeks in the summer of 1827. Schubert wrote a little 4-hand march for their son, Faust Pachler, who pubi. Beethoven und M. Pachler-Koschak (Berlin, 1866), which contains valuable details concerning Beethoven’s last days.

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