Julie von Webenau

Julie von Webenau (; October 16, 1813 – July 2, 1887) was a German-Austrian composer. Life von Webenau was born to the government council member Ludwig Cajetan Baroni-Cavalcabò (1765-1847) and the amateur singer Josephine Baroni-Cavalcabò (1788-1860) in Lemberg, Austrian Empire (modern-day Lviv, Ukraine). She had a sister, Laura, and a brother, Adolf. In Lemberg, she was a student of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, of whom her mother had a close relationship with. Under Mozart’s tutelage, she published her first songs under her maiden name. In July 1842, she married Johann Alois Ritter von Britto, a Brazilian Legation Secretary, in the St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. The couple had two daughters and a son. von Britto died in 1877, after which von Webenau lived with her sister, Laura. Her granddaughter was the composer Vilma von Webenau. Music * op. 1 - Variation for piano (May 1830) * op. 2 - Caprice for piano No. 1 * op. 3 - Piano Sonata in E flat major, published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1830 * op. 4 - Fantasy in C minor for piano * op.5 - Introduction et Rondeau for piano (December 1830) * op. 6 - Die Grabesrose for bass, baritone or alto (“You Grabesrose rooted well”), p