Theresia Bruckner, nee Helm, mother of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner.
Theresia Helm was born at Sierning near Steyr in Upper Austria. Her father, Johann Ferdinand Helm, was the administrator, host and the hostel father of the rafters in the inn "Zum Krößwang" in Neuzeug. Her mother Anna Maria, born Mayrhofer , also came from Neuzeug.
Theresia grew up in a well-off household, her father having ample property, he received income as the administrator of the Gschwendt estate in Neuzeug, ran the above-mentioned inn and also had a knife and publisher shop. Her mother died when Theresia Helm was ten years old, whereupon her father married a second time, but he himself passed away after a few years. Now her stepmother also married a second time, in 1821, after which Theresia Helm had stepparents from that point on.
In 1817 she can be identified as a housekeeper in the nearby Wolfern parsonage; around 1820 she temporarily ran the household for her paternal widowed uncle, but must have returned to Wolfern in 1822, where she met her future husband, the teacher Anton Bruckner (senior, born in 1791). On September 30, 1823, they married in Ansfelden´s Saint Valentine church. Together they had eleven children, of which only five survived. At the baptism of their first child Joseph Anton, born on September 4, 1824 at 4:15 a.m. and baptized at 5:00 p.m. on the same day in St. Valentine' s. After the death of her husband, who died in 1837, Theresia had to vacate the official apartment within two weeks and moved to Ebelsberg with her four younger children, her remaining possessions that fit on a handcart, and her blind sister-in-law. At Ebelsberg she worked as an assistant maid and laundress worked, while she placed her son Anton Bruckner in the St. Florian Monastery as a choir boy.
Theresia Bruckner died on Sunday, November 11th, 1860 in Linz-Ebelsberg (Ebelsberg No. 70) of tuberculosis. Anton Bruckner, who had supported his mother financially, adored her and always had a photo of her hanging in his respective apartment, then had a photographer brought from Linz to have his mother photographed on her deathbed. He wrote to his sister Rosalia: “Dear Sali ! Unfortunately I have to report to you that the matter had a surprising outcome. Our good mother went to the better afterlife today at 4 a.m. The funeral is Tuesday morning, and I hope you will be present. Perhaps the brother-in-law will also come ... “. The photograph by the Linz photographer was then, as Bruckner's students relate, hung up behind a green curtain in his apartment for the rest of his life. He prayed, especially in times of crisis, in front of this picture.
Theresia Bruckner was buried in Ebelsberg, but was reburied in 1924 in her husband's grave at Ansfelden, close to St. Valentine.
Anton Bruckner mentioned his mother several times in his letters. In a letter to Leopold Hofmeyr in Steyr z. B. he noticed in 1882 that on October 15th (St. Theresa of Ávila) he always [...] celebrated the dear name feast of my blessed mother [...]. [13] He informed his friend Josef Kluger that in 1872, in memory of his mother, he had composed the Andante (Misterioso) in the Adagio of his 3rd Symphony on her name day. [14]
Theresia Helm was born at Sierning near Steyr in Upper Austria. Her father, Johann Ferdinand Helm, was the administrator, host and the hostel father of the rafters in the inn "Zum Krößwang" in Neuzeug. Her mother Anna Maria, born Mayrhofer , also came from Neuzeug.
Theresia grew up in a well-off household, her father having ample property, he received income as the administrator of the Gschwendt estate in Neuzeug, ran the above-mentioned inn and also had a knife and publisher shop. Her mother died when Theresia Helm was ten years old, whereupon her father married a second time, but he himself passed away after a few years. Now her stepmother also married a second time, in 1821, after which Theresia Helm had stepparents from that point on.
In 1817 she can be identified as a housekeeper in the nearby Wolfern parsonage; around 1820 she temporarily ran the household for her paternal widowed uncle, but must have returned to Wolfern in 1822, where she met her future husband, the teacher Anton Bruckner (senior, born in 1791). On September 30, 1823, they married in Ansfelden´s Saint Valentine church. Together they had eleven children, of which only five survived. At the baptism of their first child Joseph Anton, born on September 4, 1824 at 4:15 a.m. and baptized at 5:00 p.m. on the same day in St. Valentine' s. After the death of her husband, who died in 1837, Theresia had to vacate the official apartment within two weeks and moved to Ebelsberg with her four younger children, her remaining possessions that fit on a handcart, and her blind sister-in-law. At Ebelsberg she worked as an assistant maid and laundress worked, while she placed her son Anton Bruckner in the St. Florian Monastery as a choir boy.
Theresia Bruckner died on Sunday, November 11th, 1860 in Linz-Ebelsberg (Ebelsberg No. 70) of tuberculosis. Anton Bruckner, who had supported his mother financially, adored her and always had a photo of her hanging in his respective apartment, then had a photographer brought from Linz to have his mother photographed on her deathbed. He wrote to his sister Rosalia: “Dear Sali ! Unfortunately I have to report to you that the matter had a surprising outcome. Our good mother went to the better afterlife today at 4 a.m. The funeral is Tuesday morning, and I hope you will be present. Perhaps the brother-in-law will also come ... “. The photograph by the Linz photographer was then, as Bruckner's students relate, hung up behind a green curtain in his apartment for the rest of his life. He prayed, especially in times of crisis, in front of this picture.
Theresia Bruckner was buried in Ebelsberg, but was reburied in 1924 in her husband's grave at Ansfelden, close to St. Valentine.
Anton Bruckner mentioned his mother several times in his letters. In a letter to Leopold Hofmeyr in Steyr z. B. he noticed in 1882 that on October 15th (St. Theresa of Ávila) he always [...] celebrated the dear name feast of my blessed mother [...]. [13] He informed his friend Josef Kluger that in 1872, in memory of his mother, he had composed the Andante (Misterioso) in the Adagio of his 3rd Symphony on her name day. [14]
Theresia Bruckner, nee Helm, mother of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner.
Theresia Helm was born at Sierning near Steyr in Upper Austria. Her father, Johann Ferdinand Helm, was the administrator, host and the hostel father of the rafters in the inn "Zum Krößwang" in Neuzeug. Her mother Anna Maria, born Mayrhofer , also came from Neuzeug.
Theresia grew up in a well-off household, her father having ample property, he received income as the administrator of the Gschwendt estate in Neuzeug, ran the above-mentioned inn and also had a knife and publisher shop. Her mother died when Theresia Helm was ten years old, whereupon her father married a second time, but he himself passed away after a few years. Now her stepmother also married a second time, in 1821, after which Theresia Helm had stepparents from that point on.
In 1817 she can be identified as a housekeeper in the nearby Wolfern parsonage; around 1820 she temporarily ran the household for her paternal widowed uncle, but must have returned to Wolfern in 1822, where she met her future husband, the teacher Anton Bruckner (senior, born in 1791). On September 30, 1823, they married in Ansfelden´s Saint Valentine church. Together they had eleven children, of which only five survived. At the baptism of their first child Joseph Anton, born on September 4, 1824 at 4:15 a.m. and baptized at 5:00 p.m. on the same day in St. Valentine' s. After the death of her husband, who died in 1837, Theresia had to vacate the official apartment within two weeks and moved to Ebelsberg with her four younger children, her remaining possessions that fit on a handcart, and her blind sister-in-law. At Ebelsberg she worked as an assistant maid and laundress worked, while she placed her son Anton Bruckner in the St. Florian Monastery as a choir boy.
Theresia Bruckner died on Sunday, November 11th, 1860 in Linz-Ebelsberg (Ebelsberg No. 70) of tuberculosis. Anton Bruckner, who had supported his mother financially, adored her and always had a photo of her hanging in his respective apartment, then had a photographer brought from Linz to have his mother photographed on her deathbed. He wrote to his sister Rosalia: “Dear Sali ! Unfortunately I have to report to you that the matter had a surprising outcome. Our good mother went to the better afterlife today at 4 a.m. The funeral is Tuesday morning, and I hope you will be present. Perhaps the brother-in-law will also come ... “. The photograph by the Linz photographer was then, as Bruckner's students relate, hung up behind a green curtain in his apartment for the rest of his life. He prayed, especially in times of crisis, in front of this picture.
Theresia Bruckner was buried in Ebelsberg, but was reburied in 1924 in her husband's grave at Ansfelden, close to St. Valentine.
Anton Bruckner mentioned his mother several times in his letters. In a letter to Leopold Hofmeyr in Steyr z. B. he noticed in 1882 that on October 15th (St. Theresa of Ávila) he always [...] celebrated the dear name feast of my blessed mother [...]. [13] He informed his friend Josef Kluger that in 1872, in memory of his mother, he had composed the Andante (Misterioso) in the Adagio of his 3rd Symphony on her name day. [14]
Theresia Helm was born at Sierning near Steyr in Upper Austria. Her father, Johann Ferdinand Helm, was the administrator, host and the hostel father of the rafters in the inn "Zum Krößwang" in Neuzeug. Her mother Anna Maria, born Mayrhofer , also came from Neuzeug.
Theresia grew up in a well-off household, her father having ample property, he received income as the administrator of the Gschwendt estate in Neuzeug, ran the above-mentioned inn and also had a knife and publisher shop. Her mother died when Theresia Helm was ten years old, whereupon her father married a second time, but he himself passed away after a few years. Now her stepmother also married a second time, in 1821, after which Theresia Helm had stepparents from that point on.
In 1817 she can be identified as a housekeeper in the nearby Wolfern parsonage; around 1820 she temporarily ran the household for her paternal widowed uncle, but must have returned to Wolfern in 1822, where she met her future husband, the teacher Anton Bruckner (senior, born in 1791). On September 30, 1823, they married in Ansfelden´s Saint Valentine church. Together they had eleven children, of which only five survived. At the baptism of their first child Joseph Anton, born on September 4, 1824 at 4:15 a.m. and baptized at 5:00 p.m. on the same day in St. Valentine' s. After the death of her husband, who died in 1837, Theresia had to vacate the official apartment within two weeks and moved to Ebelsberg with her four younger children, her remaining possessions that fit on a handcart, and her blind sister-in-law. At Ebelsberg she worked as an assistant maid and laundress worked, while she placed her son Anton Bruckner in the St. Florian Monastery as a choir boy.
Theresia Bruckner died on Sunday, November 11th, 1860 in Linz-Ebelsberg (Ebelsberg No. 70) of tuberculosis. Anton Bruckner, who had supported his mother financially, adored her and always had a photo of her hanging in his respective apartment, then had a photographer brought from Linz to have his mother photographed on her deathbed. He wrote to his sister Rosalia: “Dear Sali ! Unfortunately I have to report to you that the matter had a surprising outcome. Our good mother went to the better afterlife today at 4 a.m. The funeral is Tuesday morning, and I hope you will be present. Perhaps the brother-in-law will also come ... “. The photograph by the Linz photographer was then, as Bruckner's students relate, hung up behind a green curtain in his apartment for the rest of his life. He prayed, especially in times of crisis, in front of this picture.
Theresia Bruckner was buried in Ebelsberg, but was reburied in 1924 in her husband's grave at Ansfelden, close to St. Valentine.
Anton Bruckner mentioned his mother several times in his letters. In a letter to Leopold Hofmeyr in Steyr z. B. he noticed in 1882 that on October 15th (St. Theresa of Ávila) he always [...] celebrated the dear name feast of my blessed mother [...]. [13] He informed his friend Josef Kluger that in 1872, in memory of his mother, he had composed the Andante (Misterioso) in the Adagio of his 3rd Symphony on her name day. [14]
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