Antonie Adamberger

Antonie “Toni” Adamberger (* December 31, 1790 in Vienna; † December 25, 1867 in Vienna) was an Austrian stage actress.

Born to the tenor Valentin Adamberger and the actress Maria Anna Jacquet, she was raised after the death of her parents by the poet Heinrich Joseph von Collin. Debuting at the age of sixteen on New Year’s Day 1807 at the Burgtheater, she was immediately engaged as a Court Actress and “straightway found great acclaim as an , in both sentimental and some tragic parts.” Antonie Adamberger quickly became the darling of the Viennese public, displaying her abilities as Beatrice in The Bride of Messina and also as Desdemona and Emilia Galotti.

Beethoven composed Klärchen’s songs “Die Trommel gerühret” (“The drum is a-stirring”) and “Freudvoll und leidvoll” (“Joyful and woeful”) (first introduced at the Burgtheater on June 15, 1810) in his incidental music for Goethe’s Egmont with Adamberger specifically in mind. She would later repeatedly and enthusiastically recall her collaboration with him.

In 1812 Theodor Körner was employed as a principal author for the Burgtheater. Adamberger saw him for the first time at a rehearsal for his comic piece, Der grüne Domino (“The Green Domino”). In the same year she and the poet were betrothed. In February 1812, Körner write his drama Toni, in which his fiancée later undertook the leading part. Antonie Adamberger belonged to the circle of the Austrian novelist Karoline Pichler, who later wrote of her appearance in Toni:

...
Wikipedia