Anna Schuppe

Anna Marie Wilhelmine Antonie Leopoldine Benfey Schuppe (September 19, 1829 - May 27, 1903){{Cite web |title=Anna Marie Wilhelmine Antonie Leopoldine Benfey |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Benfey/6000000068149370039 |access-date=2023-01-12 |website=geni_family_tree |date=19 September 1829 |language=en-US}} was an Austrian author and composer who wrote songs,{{Cite book |last=Stewart-Green |first=Miriam |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6815939 |title=Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice |date=1980 |publisher=G.K. Hall |isbn=0-8161-8498-4 |location=Boston, Mass. |oclc=6815939}} operas, and music for theatre.{{Cite web |title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of Woman's Work in Music, by Arthur Elson. |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20571/20571-h/20571-h.htm |access-date=2023-01-12 |website=www.gutenberg.org |page=163}} She published under the names Anna Benfey Schuppe and Anna Benfey.{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846 |title=International encyclopedia of women composers |date=1987 |isbn=0-9617485-2-4 |edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged |location=New York |pages=74 |oclc=16714846}}

Schuppe was born in Landeck.{{Cite book |last=Wier |first=Albert E. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/861908 |title=The Macmillan encyclopedia of music and musicians : in one volume |date=1938 |publisher=The Macmillan Company |pages=155 |oclc=861908}} Her music teachers included Georg Bierling (possibly Georg Vierling), Moritz Brosig, Ludwig Meinardus, and Hubert Ries. She taught at the Ursuline Convent in Glogow, Poland, then in Dresden, Germany, and in Graz, Austria. She married the writer Rudolf Benfey in 1879.{{Cite web |title=ccm :: Benfey Schuppe, Anna Benfey Schuppe |url=https://composers-classical-music.com/b/BenfeySchuppeAnna.htm |access-date=2023-01-12 |website=composers-classical-music.com}}

Schuppe moved to Weimar, Germany, in 1892, following her husband’s death. She continued her husband’s correspondence with the composer Franz Liszt,{{Cite book |last=Liszt |first=Franz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XT5GAQAAIAAJ&dq=Anna+Benfey+Schuppe&pg=PA368 |title=From Rome to the end |date=1894 |publisher=C. Scribner |language=en}} as well as his work on a pamphlet entitled Beethoven and Liszt.{{Cite book |last=Comini |first=Alessandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYBAFG01FOsC&dq=Anna+Benfey+Schuppe&pg=PA444 |title=The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking |date=2008 |publisher=Sunstone Press |isbn=978-0-86534-661-1 |language=en}}

Schuppe composed works through at least opus 7.{{Cite web |title=Anna Schuppe Song Texts {{!}} LiederNet |url=https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=25611&View=Opus |access-date=2023-01-12 |website=www.lieder.net}} She was best known for her incidental music for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which was performed in Wroclaw, Poland; Coburg, Germany; and Dresden. (N) Her publications included: