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Anna Fischer-Maraffa
Anna Fischer-Maraffa, born Miedke or Miedtke, (11 March 1806 – 19 October 1866) was a German operatic soprano. Life Born in Ansbach, Fisher was the daughter of the actor and singer couple Carl and Charlotte Miedke Charlotte Miedke, ''née'' Pfister (1781 in Mannheim – 27 October or 22 October 1806), also Miedtke, was a German singer and stage actress. Life At the age of 15, on 11 December 1796, she was already engaged as a soubrette in Mannheim. Furthe ..., who were engaged in Ansbach. In 1806, soon after the family moved to Stuttgart, her mother died. Anna was adopted by the singer Joseph Fischer and later trained as a singer. Various concert tours took the adoptive father and daughter through Germany and Italy, where both gained a distinguished reputation. From 1820 to 1830 Anna Fischer sang her first roles on the great stages of Italy - Florence, Rome, Milan, Palermo, and Naples. In Naples she married the singer Karl Maraffa. In 1829 Anna Fischer-Maraffa was engage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880 Hz in choral music, or to "soprano C" (C6, two octaves above middle C) = 1046 Hz or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which often encompasses the melody. The soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, soubrette, lyric, spinto, and dramatic soprano. Etymology The word "soprano" comes from the Italian word '' sopra'' (above, over, on top of),"Soprano" '' |
Ansbach
Ansbach (; ; East Franconian: ''Anschba'') is a city in the German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the river Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the river Main. In 2020, its population was 41,681. Developed in the 8th century as a Benedictine monastery, it became the seat of the Hohenzollern family in 1331. In 1460, the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach lived here. The city has a castle known as Margrafen–Schloss, built between 1704 and 1738. It was not badly damaged during the World Wars and hence retains its original historical baroque sheen. Ansbach is now home to a US military base and to the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences. The city has connections via autobahn A6 and highways B13 and B14. Ansbach station is on the Nürnberg–Crailsheim and Treuchtlingen–Würzburg railways and is the terminus of line S4 of the Nuremberg S-Bahn. Name origin Ans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Miedke
Carl Gottfried Miedke, also Miedtke, (3 September 1773 – 4 January 1839), was a German actor, director and playwright. Life Miedke was born in Potsdam on 3 September 1773. His father was the ''Royal '' Gottfried Miedke at the court of Frederick the Great, the mother was Albertina Charlotta Kaebelizzen or Kaebelitz. He was active on the stage from the age of 18 and was married in his first marriage to the actress and singer Charlotte Miedke, ''née'' Pfister (1781 in Mannheim - 22 October 1806 in Stuttgart). There were three children from this marriage: * Karl August Krebs (16 January 1804 in Nuremberg - 16 May 1880 in Dresden), who, after his mother's early death from scarlet fever in 1806, was adopted in the child's place by the court singer Johann Baptist Krebs there, with his father's consent, after the couple moved to Stuttgart, and consequently took the name of his foster father Krebs; he was active as a pianist, composer, and latterly in Dresden as court conductor; * Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Miedke
Charlotte Miedke, ''née'' Pfister (1781 in Mannheim – 27 October or 22 October 1806), also Miedtke, was a German singer and stage actress. Life At the age of 15, on 11 December 1796, she was already engaged as a soubrette in Mannheim. Further stations of her career were from 1798 to 1801: Theatre Nuremberg (subject: soubrette and naive roles), 1802: Aachen (summer 1802), 1802: Düsseldorf (Oct./Nov. 1802) and 1802 to 1805: Nuremberg (as first female singer). on '''' In 1805, she came to the court theatre in Stuttgart, where she worked as an actress.Wilhelm Kosch (ed.): ''Deutsches Theaterlexikon.'' Vol II: ''Hurka– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Fischer (singer)
Joseph Fischer may refer to: * Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), German chemist * Joseph Anton Fischer (1814–1859), German artist * Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach (1693–1742), Austrian architect * Joseph Fischer (cartographer) (1858–1944), German cartographer * Joschka Fischer (Joseph Martin Fischer, born 1948), German politician * Joseph Fischer (Kentucky politician) (born 1954), American politician and state legislator in Kentucky * Josef E. Fischer (born 1937), American physician and professor * Josef Fischer (cyclist) (1865–1953), German road racer * Joseph Fischer (footballer) (1909–1986), Luxembourgian footballer * Josef Fischer (footballer), Austrian * Josef Fischer, Sr., Austrian cartwright and founder of the sporting-goods company Fischer * József Fischer József Fischer (15 December 1887 – 1952) was a Hungarian and Romanian lawyer and politician of Jewish ethnicity. He was a prominent leader of the Jewish National Party in interwar Romania. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl-Josef Kutsch
Karl-Josef Kutsch, also known as K. J. Kutsch, (born 11 May 1924) is a German physician and co-author with Leo Riemens of the ''Großes Sängerlexikon'', the standard reference for opera singers. Life and work Born in Gangelt, Kutsch studied medicine, was drafted and participated as a soldier in the Russia campaign of the Second World War. He then completed his studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1948. He practised as a physician from 1952 to 1989 in his hometown, together with his wife. From the 1950s, Kutsch built a collection of records and singers' biographies. Together with the Dutch musicologist Leo Riemens, he published a small biographical dictionary of singers in 1962 under the title ''Unvergängliche Stimmen'' (''Immortal Voices'').Jan David SchmitzSängerlexikon CD-ROMhsozkult.de In 1975 the work was revised as ''Unvergängliche Stimmen / Sängerlexikon'', which was again revised in 1985 with his and Riemens' cooperation and became the standard work. Under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Riemens
Leonardus Antony Marinus Riemens (3 December 1910 – 3 April 1985) was a Dutch musicologist and cultural journalist. He wrote a book about Maria Callas, and together with Karl-Josef Kutsch began a reference book about opera singers in 1962, which grew to ''Großes Sängerlexikon'', the standard reference in the field. Background and career Born in Zevenbergen, Riemens grew up in a family of physicians in Amsterdam. He studied musicology in Amsterdam and worked from 1931 as a feature editor for the newspaper '. Later he was a member of the extreme-right NSB. During the Second World War he worked for the nazified ''Nederlandsche Omroep''. From 1954 to 1976 he was an opera and television critic for the newspaper ''De Telegraaf''. Riemens published numerous articles in the professional journals ''Opera'', ', '' Gramophone'' and '' Opera News''. He wrote an opera guide and a biography about Maria Callas. At Radio Hilversum he designed the series ''Uren der Zangkunst''. Riemens ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großes Sängerlexikon
''Großes Sängerlexikon'' (''Biographical Dictionary of Singers'', literally: Large singers' lexicon) is a single-field dictionary of singers in classical music, edited by Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens and first published in 1987. The first edition was in two volumes and contained the biographies of nearly 7000 singers from the 1590s through the 1980s. It grew out of ''Unvergängliche Stimmen. Kleines Sängerlexikon'' (Immortal voices. Small singers' lexicon), published in 1962, which covered only singers who had made recordings. A 1992 review in ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'' described the ''Großes Sängerlexikon'' as "indispensable in the search for concise background information about those persons who are undoubtedly the most important to the performance of opera."Arndt, Michael (1992) "Reviewed Work: ''Großes Sängerlexikon Ergänzungsband'' by Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens" ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'', Vol. 153, No. 9, p. 50. Retrieved via JSTOR 26 March 2019 . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Operatic Sopranos
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1806 Births
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1866 Deaths
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