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Variations for Flute and Piano, op. 39
Variations for Flute and Piano, op. 39
L. Blahetka: Variations for Flute and Piano, op. 39 was written in the 1830s (published in 1835), most likely right after the Blahetka family moved from Vienna to Boulogne-Sur-Mer in France, hoping to find a better climate.
Blahetka was a child prodigy, studying piano with Joseph Czerny and composition with Simon Sechter, Vienna’s most revered teacher. She published her first compositions by the age of 11. Therefore, by the age of 21, when young Leopoldine wrote her Variations for Flute and Piano, she already was an established composer.
Blahetka Leopoldine
Leopoldine Blahetka (1809-1885) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Born in a family of teachers (her father was a history and mathematics teacher and had good relations with Ludwig van Beethoven, and her mother was a physharmonica teacher and performer) she early was exposed to music since her maternal grandfather was the Viennese composer, Andreas Traeg. After moving to Vienna where her father took a job with the Traeg music publishing house, young Leopoldine initially studied piano with her mother and later with many other renowned teachers of Vienna at that time, including Joseph Czerny, by special recommendation of L. W. Beethoven.
In 1816 she gave her first public performance at the age of seven and immediately was declared a "genius" by the Viennese press. A few years later she took composition lessons from Vienna’s most revered teacher Simon Sechter and published her first compositions by the age of 11.
In 1821 she started touring Europe as a child prodigy, accompanied by her mother.
While touring in Germany in 1825/1826 she made a great impression on Robert Schumann who later described her works as “truly feminine, delicate, considerate and elaborate.”
Around 1830, the Blahetka family moved to Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, seeking a better climate. Little is known about her life after the 1840s when she ended her European tour. Overall, she composed over 50 compositions, mostly for piano.