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Zschinsky-Troxler, Elsa Margherita Baroness von, née Troxler

Zschinsky-Troxler, Elsa Margherita Baroness von, née Troxler

Violinist, Writer

born: 25.07.1890 in Milan

died: 09.05.1957 in Wiesbaden


Elsa Margherita Baroness von Zschinsky-Troxler, ca. 1950
Elsa Margherita Baroness von Zschinsky-Troxler, ca. 1950

Zschinsky-Troxler studied music in Milan and Leipzig. Her teachers included Max Reger and Carl Flesch (1873-1944). She then made a name for herself as a violin virtuoso and music writer. After her marriage to the police commissioner Georg Freiherr von Zschinsky (1880-1959), she studied literature and languages in Leipzig and received her doctorate in 1939 with a thesis on the violinist and composer Gaetano Pugnani (1731-1798).

The couple moved to Wiesbaden after her husband's transfer in 1942. On May 22, 1951, Zschinsky-Troxler founded the Società Dante Alighieri in Wiesbaden. Its first president was State Director Heinrich Köhler-Helffrich. With her educational trips, concerts and lectures, she drew the attention of Germans to Italy in the post-war period. She repeatedly succeeded in attracting well-known artists and academics to the society and its concerns.

Literature

Renkhoff, Otto: Nassau Biography. Kurzbiographien aus 13 Jahrhunderten, 2nd ed., Wiesbaden 1992 (Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Nassau 39) [p. 902].

Collection of newspaper clippings from the Wiesbaden City Archives, "Zschinsky-Troxler, Elsa Margherita Freifrau von, née Troxler".

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