Eugenie Sendrey (20 August 1884 in Vienna – 27 November 1959) also ''Eugenie Szendrei'' (wedding name), ''Eugenie Weisz'' (birth name) and ''Eugenie Wilms'' (stage name), was an American soprano of Austrian-Hungarian origin who worked under her birth name ''Eugenie Weisz'' at the

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under

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. Sendrey was the wife of the composer, conductor and musicologist

Alfred Szendrei Alfred Szendrei, also ''Alfred Sendrey'' and ''Aladár Szendrei'' (29 February 1884 – 3 March 1976) was an American musicologist, organist, conductor, composer of Hungarian origin. He was one of the leading conductors and pioneers of German radio ...

(later Alfred Sendrey) and the mother of the composer and arranger

Albert Richard Sendrey Albert Richard Sendrey, also Albert Richard Szendrei, (26 December 1911The Riemann Musiklexikon (1972) incorrectly gives the date of birth of Albert Richard Sendrey as 26 December 1922. – 18 May 2003) was an American composer, conductor and arra ...

. One of her siblings was the violinist, conductor and composer Paul Weiss (1888–1967, originally Paul Weisz). Sendrey was born in Vienna in 1884 as the daughter of Leopold Weisz and his wife Franciska, ''née'' Frankel. She grew up in Vienna with four siblings. Sendrey fled as a Jew around 1933 with her family from the National Socialists, first to Paris. The

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in May and June 1940 forced the family to continue fleeing to the United States. There she changed her Hungarian surname "Szendrei" to the Americanized spelling "Sendrey". Sendrey's mother Franciska was deported to the

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in August 1942 and died there on 31 December 1942. Her father had already died in 1921. Sendrey died in Los Angeles at age 76.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sendrey, Eugenie Austrian operatic sopranos 1884 births 1955 deaths Singers from Vienna Austrian emigrants to the United States

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