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Empress Marie Therese and music at the Viennese Court, 1792 - 1807 Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. The Temple of Night at Schönau, architecture, music, and theater in a late eighteenth-century Viennese garden.

Empress Marie Therese and music at the Viennese Court, 1792 - 1807 Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Philadelphia, PA ; American Philosophical Society (2006).

Empress Marie Therese, second wife of Emperor Franz II, devoted much of her life to music. She played piano and sang. In this work Rice introduces readers to the musical and cultural worlds of the Viennese court at the end of the eighteenth century. She played piano and sang, compiled a large music library and supported professional musicians and composers. This comprehensive survey of the Empress as musician and patron is based upon John Rice's discovery and analysis of extensive unpublished material from her private collection Empress Marie Therese, second wife of Emperor Franz II, devoted much of her life to music.

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Marie Therese's influence on music in the public sphere-. 8. The empress as conceiver, commissioner and shaper of musical works-. 9. Il conte Cl-: a birthday cantata from inception to performance-. 10. Joseph Haydn and Beethoven between court and nobility- Epilogue-. Appendix 1: Marie Therese's collection of church music-.

Study of Empress Marie Therese as music patron in the Vienna of Haydn and Beethoven. Cambridge University Press.

Marie Therese was the daughter of the King of Naples and Sicily; she married her cousin Franz in 1790 and from 1792 when he became Holy Roman Emperor she was Empress at Vienna until her death at the age of 34 in 1807. She died of postnatal complications after giving birth to twelve children in fifteen years. She came from a musical family, she played the clavier and sang, and her husband was an enthusiastic violinist and singer