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Amalie Sebald (24 August 1787 – 4 January 1846) was a German singer and was considered at the beginning of the 20th century to be Beethoven's " Immortal Beloved".
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* Wolfgang Alexander Thomas-San-Galli, ''Beethoven und die Unsterbliche Geliebte: Amalie Sebald, Goethe, Teréz Brunszvik und anderes'', Munich 1910 * Arnold Schering, ''Zum Bildnis der Amalie Sebald.'' In ''Neues Beethoven-Jahrbuch'', published by Adolf Sandberger, 5th year (1933), p. 5f. * Klaus Martin Kopitz, Rainer Cadenbach (editor) among others: ''Beethoven aus der Sicht seiner Zeitgenossen in Tagebüchern, Briefen, Gedichten und Erinnerungen.'' Volume 2: ''Lachner – Zmeskall.'' published by the Beethoven-Forschungsstelle an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Henle, Munich 2009, , .
Amalie Sebald (24 August 1787 – 4 January 1846) was a German singer and was considered at the beginning of the 20th century to be Beethoven's " Immortal Beloved".
Life
Born in Berlin, Sebald was a daughter of thealto
The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: ''altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In 4-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in choruses by ...
von Sebald, ''née'' Schwadke, and of the Justice Council Karl Christian August Sebald. Like her sister Auguste, who later married the Protestant priest Carl Ritschl
Georg Carl Benjamin Ritschl (1 November 1783 – 18 June 1858) was a German evangelist theologian, bishop and composer in Pomerania.
Biography
Carl Ritschl was born to Georg Ritschl von Hartenbach and Regina Christina Emminghaus in Erfurt ...
, she was a 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&n ...
. In the records of the Singakademie her mother is recorded for the year 1791, her daughters for 1801 and 1802 respectively; the three ladies appeared as soloists for the first time in 1794 and 1803 and 1804 respectively.
Beethoven met Sebald in the summer of 1811 in the spa resort Teplitz; she had arrived together with the countess Elisa von der Recke
Elisabeth "Elisa" Charlotte Constanzia von der Recke (née von Medem; 20 May 1754 – 13 April 1833) was a Baltic German writer and poet.
Family
Elisa von der Recke was born in Schönberg, Skaistkalne parish, Courland (present-day Skaist ...
. At that time, the heart of the composer was won, who met her again in Teplice in 1812. Sebald later, on 17 October 1815, married the Berlin Justice Councillor Ludwig Krause (around 1781–1825), whom she survived. while Beethoven remained unmarried and five years later told Gianastasio de Rio that he had little hope of winning over the woman he had fallen in love with.
Sebald apparently still worked as a singing teacher after her marriage. One of her pupils was Lili Parthey
Lili Parthey (real name ''Elisabeth Parthey'' (1800 – 1829) was a German author whose diaries are regarded as important historical testimonies to the Biedermeier era.
Life
Parthey was a granddaughter of Friedrich Nicolai and a sister of Gust ...
, to whom she gave in 1817 a medallion with hair of Queen Luise
Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie; 10 March 1776 – 19 July 1810) was Queen of Prussia as the wife of King Frederick William III. The couple's happy, though short-lived, marriage produced nine child ...
for her birthday.
Beethoven's love letter
The Beethoven scholar Wolfgang Alexander Thomas-San-Galli believed in 1910 to have found in Sebald the addressee of the famous ''Letter to the Immortal Beloved'', a letter which Beethoven had written to an unknown person in the Bohemian spa town Teplice on July 6–7, 1812. Thomas-San-Galli's thesis is no longer discussed today. Sebald died in Berlin at age 58.Further reading
*Ludwig Nohl
Ludwig Nohl (born 5 December 1831 in Iserlohn; died 15 December 1885 in Heidelberg) was a German music scholar and writer best known for discovering and publishing Beethoven's famous bagatelle, "Für Elise".
Life
After graduation from the Gymna ...
, ''Beethovens letzte Liebe.'' In ''Der Salon für Literatur, Kunst und Gesellschaft'', volume 1 (1880), Digitalisat
* Wolfgang Alexander Thomas-San-Galli, ''Beethoven und die Unsterbliche Geliebte: Amalie Sebald, Goethe, Teréz Brunszvik und anderes'', Munich 1910 * Arnold Schering, ''Zum Bildnis der Amalie Sebald.'' In ''Neues Beethoven-Jahrbuch'', published by Adolf Sandberger, 5th year (1933), p. 5f. * Klaus Martin Kopitz, Rainer Cadenbach (editor) among others: ''Beethoven aus der Sicht seiner Zeitgenossen in Tagebüchern, Briefen, Gedichten und Erinnerungen.'' Volume 2: ''Lachner – Zmeskall.'' published by the Beethoven-Forschungsstelle an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Henle, Munich 2009, , .
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sebald, Amalie Ludwig van Beethoven 19th-century German women singers 1787 births 1846 deaths Singers from Berlin