Julie Waldburg-Wurzach

Princess Julie Furstin von Waldburg-Wurzach (27 April 1841 – 7 December 1914) was an Austrian composer who published over 60 works for voice and/or piano. She was born in Vienna to Count Frans and Františka Dubský of Třebomyslice. In 1858, she married Eberhard, 4th Prince of Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach, becoming his second wife. They had five daughters, including Countess Marie and Countess Elizabeth Sophie of Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach. One of Waldburg-Wurzach’s teachers was pianist and composer Julie von Pfeilschifter, who lived with the family at in Württemberg in 1872, then moved with them to Salzburg in 1874. Franz Liszt reviewed Waldburg-Wurzach’s compositions in at least one letter in 1874. He suggested a simpler notation for her “Mondlied”; edited the text of “Comme à Vingt Ans”; and noted that her song dedicated to Mme Ehnn, “Liebeshoffnung,” “please d me particularly.” In addition to composing, Waldburg-Wurzach provided significant help to several people. In 1875, she used her social contacts at Cotta Verlag (today Klett-Cotta Verlag) to help her half-sister Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach begin publishing some of her writing, She visited Ferdinand von Zeppelin after he crashed his aircr