Lachner, Vinzenz

Lachner, Vinzenz – Ouvertüre und Marsch zu Schillers «Turandot», Op.33 No.1 & 2

b. Rain am Lech, 19 July 1811 – d. Karlsruhe, 22 January 1893)

Preface
It was music that was at the centre of the Lachner family. Vinzenz Lachner was born in 1811 as the eighth and youngest surviving of ten children of the clockmaker and organist Anton Lachner (1756-1820) and his second wife Maria Anna Kunz (1774-1846). His family home was characterised by the love of music and the encouragement to take it seriously. Like his siblings, he received early organ lessons from his father, who served as organist at the church in Rain. This was the only systematic musical instruction the young man received; as a conductor and composer, he remained self-taught. His older brothers Franz and Ignaz and his half-brother Theodor were also to pursue a musical career as composers, while his sisters Thekla (1801-1869) and Christina (1805-1858) worked as organists.

Vinzenz’s time at the Augsburg grammar school, which he had attended since 1822, ended prematurely and for unknown reasons. To earn a living, the young man scraped through by teaching music until his brother Franz helped him find a permanent position in 1830 as music teacher to the daughters of Count Theodor Mycielski; in 1834 he followed his brother Ignaz as organist at the Reformed Church at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. In the same year, he married Antonia Brand (1820-1871), the daughter of the Mannheim choirmaster and theatre accompanist Franz Brand. The couple had three children, all of whom died before their father. …

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