Maria Antonia of Bavaria
April 23, 1780: Death of Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony. The Electress of Saxony was the fourth child of Maria Amalia of Austria and Elector Karl Albert of Bavaria (later Emperor Karl VII). Passionate about the arts, she became a member of the Accademia dell’Arcadia of Rome, an institution devoted to the preservation of opera. Upon her marriage to Friedrich Christian at the age of twenty-three she moved to Dresden to join her husband's court. Here she was able to give full rein to her love of music, writing the libretti for two operas and a number of compositions of her own. Not content with this, she performed as a singer and musician at court and studied under Johann Adolph Hasse.
[Portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs]
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