Elise List

They had been living in Tübingen and Stuttgart and also spent several years in the United States, where they became friends of pianist and composer Clara Schumann and her husband Robert.

[2] In 1840, Elise received an engagement at the Leipzig Gewandhaus concert hall, but she was unable to combat her stage fright.

"[6] In 1843, the king commissioned Joseph Karl Stieler to paint a portrait of her for the Gallery of Beauties Nymphenburg Castle.

At that time, Elise met the widowed Austrian industrialist Gustav Moriz Pacher von Theinburg in Bad Ischl, whom she married on 27 March 1845.

Possibly due to the loss of her daughter in 1879, Elise fell ill for a long period of time.