ABSTRACT
The name of Caroline Unger will be familiar to those with an interest in the history of opera in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Additionally, Schubertians may recall that, at the very start of her professional career, Caroline Unger was coached by Schubert for a role at the Vienna Court Opera autifully. Carl Unger's connections with Schubert are only sparsely documented. Though the connection may be no more than a coincidence, this is the appropriate place to introduce a recently published letter to Caroline Unger from Mozart's younger surviving son, Franz Xavier Wolfgang. For the literary historian probably the most interesting event in Caroline Unger's life is her love-affair with the Austro-Hungarian aristocrat and poet Nikolaus Lenau, one of the most important figures in Romantic literature. The letters to Sophie continue to rave and storm about Lenau's love for Caroline; the next letter was actually written in the lodgings of another friend from the Schubert circle, Moritz von Schwind.
