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Emmy Lisken
Emmy Lisken (3 February 1923 in Moers – 11 October 2020 in Berlin) was a German contralto in opera and concert. Career Born in Moers, Lisken studied voice at the Konservatorium Düsseldorf with Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann. She was engaged from 1955 at the Theater Basel and the Cologne Opera. In Cologne, she participated in 1957 in the premiere of Wolfgang Fortner's ''Bluthochzeit'' in the role of Leonardo's Wife. A live recording of the premiere was issued 50 years later. From 1958 she worked mainly as a concert and oratorio singer, performing in European countries and at international festivals such as Festival du Marais in Paris. She recorded compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach with conductors such as Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Helmut Kahlhöfer, Hans Thamm Hans Thamm (1921 – 13 March 2007) was a German choral conductor, the founder and for more than three decades director of the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor. Career Thamm was born in Kamenz, Saxony. He receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moers
Moers (; older form: ''Mörs''; archaic Dutch language, Dutch: ''Murse'', ''Murs'' or ''Meurs'') is a German List of cities and towns in Germany, city on the western bank of the Rhine, close to Duisburg. Moers belongs to the district of Wesel (district), Wesel. History Known earliest from 1186, the county of Moers was an independent principality within the Holy Roman Empire. During the Eighty Years' War it was alternately captured by Spanish and Dutch troops, as it bordered the Upper Quarter of Guelders. During the war it Siege of Meurs (1597), finally fell to Maurice of Orange. As it was separated from the Dutch Republic by Spanish Netherlands, Spanish Upper Guelders it did not become an integral part of the Republic, though Dutch troops were stationed there. After the death of William III of England, William III of Orange in 1702, Moers was inherited by the king of Prussia. All Dutch troops and civil servants were expelled. In 1795 it was annexed by France. At the Congress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contralto
A contralto () is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type. The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare; similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to that of a countertenor, typically between the F below middle C (F3 in scientific pitch notation) to the second F above middle C (F5), although, at the extremes, some voices can reach the D below middle C (D3) or the second B above middle C (B5). The contralto voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic contralto. History "Contralto" is primarily meaningful only in reference to classical and operatic singing, as other traditions lack a comparable system of vocal categorization. The term "contralto" is only applied to female singers; men singing in a similar range are called "countertenors". The Italian terms "contralto" and "alto" are not synonymous, "alto" technically denoting a specific vocal range in choral singing without regard to factors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theater Basel
Theater Basel is the municipal theatre of the city of Basel, Switzerland, which is home to the city's opera and ballet companies. The theatre also presents plays and musicals in addition to operas and operettas. Because the theatre does not have its own orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra is usually contracted to perform for opera and ballet productions as needed. For baroque-opera productions, La Cetra, the baroque orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, is engaged. History Theater Basel was founded in 1834 under the name Basler Stadttheater. The first theatre was designed by Swiss architect Melchior Berri. In 1873 work on a new theatre began which was designed by Johann Jakob Stehlin Jr.. This second theatre opened in 1875 and was used until it was destroyed by fire on 7 October 1904. Plans for a third theatre were soon made, but it was five years before the theatre finally opened in 1909. The fourth theatre opened in 1975. In October 2018, the company announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cologne Opera
The Cologne Opera (German: Oper der Stadt Köln or Oper Köln) refers both to the main opera house in Cologne, Germany and to its resident opera company. History of the company From the mid 18th century, opera was performed in the city's court theatres by travelling Italian opera companies. The first permanent company in the city was established in 1822, and performed primarily in the Theater an der Schmierstraße (built in 1783 as a private theatre and also used for plays and concerts). The opera company later performed in Theater in der Glockengasse (built in 1872) and in the Theater am Habsburger Ring (built in 1902). The Theater am Habsburger Ring was constructed by the city of Cologne and became its first theatre to be specifically designed as an opera house. The opera house The current opera house was designed by the German architect, Wilhelm Riphahn. It was inaugurated on 8 May 1957 in the presence of Konrad Adenauer, then the Chancellor of Germany and a former mayor of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann
Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann, née Meyer-Estorf (6 October 1887 – 2 February 1971) was a German soprano who focused on Lieder singing, and a voice teacher who gave master classes internationally, in collaboration with her husband. She wrote books about teaching singing which have remained standards in the field. Life She was born Carolina Wilhelmine Franziska Meyer-Estorf in Bromberg in northern Poland, where she received vocal training. She studied piano in Leipzig with Robert Teichmüller, graduating in 1911. The following year, she married Carl Adolf Martienssen, a pianist and piano teacher. She studied voice in Berlin with Johannes Messchaert, and first appeared in concert in 1914. She became known as a lieder singer in Germany and abroad. Divorced in 1927, she became a teacher at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich. She met Paul Lohmann (1894–1981), who became her closest colleague, and they married. From 1930 to 1945, she worked at the Akademie für Kirchen- und Schu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluthochzeit
(''Blood Wedding'') is an opera () in two acts by Wolfgang Fortner. The libretto, also by Fortner, is based on German translation of García Lorca's 1933 play '' Bodas de sangre''. It premiered at the Cologne Opera on 8 June 1957. Composition Fortner was asked by Karl-Heinz Stroux to write incidental music for a performance of Lorca's play ''Bodas de sangre'' in Hamburg in the early 1950s. The composer was impressed by the drama and felt that acting was not enough to "sing the tragedy to an end" ("die Tragödie zu Ende zu singen"), and decided to set longer sections to music. Fortner wrote the opera's libretto himself based on Enrique Beck's German translation of the play. ''Bluthochzeit'', a "literary opera" like Alban Berg's ''Wozzeck'' and '' Lulu'', is driven by the action, as the composer comments: "The compulsion of the words drives the music." He scored the work for singing and speaking parts, following the text which is at times in prose, at times in poetry. Fortner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard works such as the ''Goldberg Variations'' and ''The Well-Tempered Clavier''; organ works such as the '' Schubler Chorales'' and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the ''St Matthew Passion'' and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Gönnenwein
Wolfgang Gönnenwein (29 January 1933 – 26 July 2015) was a German conductor and an academic teacher. Biography Born in Schwäbisch Hall, Wolfgang Gönnenwein studied music and German studies at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Tübingen. In 1959 he became the conductor of the choir (South German Madrigal Chorus). He also conducted the choir of the from 1969 until 1973.Wolfgang Gönnenwein on the bach-cantatas website In 1968 he was appointed Professor for choral conducting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, in 1973 he was elected Rektor (president), serving until 1982. He also directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Kahlhöfer
Helmut Kahlhöfer (25 July 1914 – 12 April 1988) was a German church musician and academic teacher. He was the founder and for decades the conductor of the choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke. Life and career Born in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal), Kahlhöfer studied Protestant church music at the Musikhochschule Köln, organ with Heinrich Boell and Michael Schneider, piano with Karl Hermann Pillnay, and choral conducting with . Kahlhöfer graduated in 1937 with the A-Examen and the concert exam for organ. He worked as a church musician (''Kantor'') in Cologne from 1937 to the beginning of World War II. He then continued his studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum, conducting with Clemens Krauss and piano with Walter Lampe. Kahlhöfer worked in Wuppertal from 1945. In 1946 he became Kantor of the Reformed Immanuelskirche in Barmen-Gemarke and founded there in 1946 the choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke which he conducted to 1986. He worked also from 1950 to 1960 as a lecturer for organ at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Thamm
Hans Thamm (1921 – 13 March 2007) was a German choral conductor, the founder and for more than three decades director of the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor. Career Thamm was born in Kamenz, Saxony. He received his first musical training in the boys' choir Dresdner Kreuzchor, where he was active as a soprano singer, also in solo parts, and later as a choir prefect. Rudolf Mauersberger, then the Kreuzkantor, organist Herbert Collum and Alfred Bull, then the head of Protestant church music in Saxony, were among his teachers. During World War II, Thamm was severely injured three times. After the war, Thamm took a job as a piano and organ teacher at the Institute of Sacred Music at the University of Erlangen. In March 1946 he was appointed both prefect of music at the former parish orphanage and music teacher at the Gymnasium (Germany), Gymnasium in Windsbach. The same year he founded the choir that became internationally known as the Windsbacher Knabenchor as a regional choir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Seiltgen
Annette Seiltgen (born 26 June 1964 in Wuppertal) is a German operatic mezzo-soprano/ dramatic soprano. Career Seiltgen grew up in an artistic environment. Her father, , was intendant and long-time director of the Stadttheater Ingolstadt, her mother is the opera, concert and oratorio singer Emmy Lisken. During her school days in Ingolstadt, where she attended the Reuchlin-Gymnasium, Article from 24 November 2014 in the ''Kulturkanal Ingolstadt'', retrieved on 16 September 2016. she played in the statistery (?) of the theater and sang in several choirs. Seiltgen studied singing with her mother at the |
