Therese von Zandt

Anna Therese Friederike von Zandt zu Reichartshausen (18 June 1771 – 26 December 1858) was a German pianist and singer.

Born in Düsseldorf, Zandt was the youngest daughter of the married couple Her mother was accepted in 1795 into the Order of the Starry Cross;[2] Therese was from 1783 to 1805 a Stiftsdame of the aristocratic liberal Stift Asbeck [de] in Westphalia.

From 1838 she advocated the publication of compositions left by her son Norbert and sold some to Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag in Leipzig.

[5] The Beethoven scholar Klaus Martin Kopitz put forward the thesis that Zandt worked from 1798 for the Leipzig paper Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, edited by Friedrich Rochlitz, and that she was the author of those articles signed "Z...".

[2] She possibly travelled to Vienna in the autumn of 1803 and may have recommended to Beethoven the Fidelio-story, which Rochlitz had translated from French, for an opera.

Ivory miniature of an unknown lady from Beethoven's Nachlass (about 1805), possibly Therese von Zandt; original in the Beethoven House . [ 1 ] [ a ]
Therese and August Burgmüller as spectators at the entry of Napoleon into Düsseldorf on 3 November 1811, coloured engraving by Johann Petersen (excerpt); Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf [ de ] . - As in the portrait from Beethoven's Nachlass , Therese here has short brown hair and wears a white dress and a red sash over her left shoulder.