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Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (22 October[1] 1787  5 February 1836) was an Austrian poet and librettist. He is best known for his close friendship with the composer Franz Schubert.

Schwind: Johann Mayrhofer
Schwind: Johann Mayrhofer
Birthplace Steyr, Pfarrgasse
Birthplace Steyr, Pfarrgasse
Gedenktafel
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Schwind: Spaun’s Schubertiade 1828, Vogl and Schubert, Mayrhofer (right)
Schwind: Spaun’s Schubertiade 1828, Vogl and Schubert, Mayrhofer (right)
Johann Mayrhofer's handwriting 1820 (review of Schubert's Zauberharfe)
Johann Mayrhofer's handwriting 1820 (review of Schubert's "Zauberharfe")

Biography


Mayrhofer was born in Steyr, educated at Novitiate in St. Florian's Priory Upper Austria. In 1810 he began to study jurisprudence and theology at the University of Vienna, both of which courses he finished. In 1814 he met the young composer Franz Schubert and his friends (Joseph von Spaun, Franz von Schober).

Mayrhofer wrote a lot of lyric poetry and published it in 1824.

Forty-seven Schubert songs and two of his operas are based on Mayrhofer’s lyric poems.

As a young man Mayrhofer had been hopelessly in love with Mina (Wilhelmina Watteroth), the daughter of Heinrich Watteroth, who was one of Mayrhofer's professors and for a short time also his landlord. In his late years Mayrhofer (like Schubert) fell in love with a young 15-year-old girl, the daughter of his landlord Doctor Strauss. Mayrhofer was a hypochondriac all his life: in 1836, during a cholera epidemic, he committed suicide by jumping from the window of his office in Vienna.[2]


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Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (né le 22 octobre 1787 à Steyr, mort le 5 février 1836 à Vienne) est un poète autrichien, grand ami de Franz Schubert.



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