Jeannette Ipavec Čampa
Slovenian land owner and poet
Marija Ana Ivana Ipavec, also known as Jeannette Ipavec Čampa and Ivanka Ipavska, (5 May 1817 – 30 April 1911) was a Slovenian landowner and poet. She was one of the first bourgeois women Slovenian-language poets. She took part in the founding of the First Austrian Ladies' Quartet, also known as the Graz Ladies' Quartet, in which three of her daughters also sang.
Childhood
She was born as the second child in a Slovenian family on 5 May 1817 in Šentjur. Her father was the Slovenian physician Franc Ipavec (1776–1858) from Gradac, while her mother was the Austrian pianist and harpist Katarina Schweighofer (1794–1865) from an impoverished noble family of Vienna, who would calm patients during her husband's operations by playing the piano. She had four sisters and four brothers, of whom two sisters and one brother died in childhood. Among the surviving siblings were the composers and physicians Alojz Ipavec, Benjamin Ipavec and Gustav Ipavec. The local elite often gathered in their house for her mother’s musical recitals. She inherited musical talent from her mother and often sung or played piano with her. She was educated in Graz.
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