Anne-Marie Krumpholtz

Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (née Steckler) was a French harpist and composer.

Anne-Marie Steckler was the daughter of Christian Steckler, an instrument maker frequented by harpist and composer Johann Baptist Krumpholtz in Metz, France.

[citation needed] Steckler married Krumpholtz on the death of his first wife and they had three children, but she left France with pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek to live in London about 1788.

[1] Anne-Marie Krumpholtz was a leading soloist and founded a tradition of professional stage performance on harp for women.

[citation needed] Joseph Haydn wrote an aria accompaniment for her in his opera L’anima del filosofo: Orpheus & Eurydice.