Marianne Willmann (''née'' Anna Maria Antonetta de Tribolet; 17 February 1768 – 21 April 1813)
[ was a German operatic soprano. She was one of a family of musicians.
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Life
Marianne was born in Paderborn
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in 1768,[ the daughter of a professor of French at the ]University of Bonn
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. She did not belong to the Court music of Bonn, but sang in the opera, her first recorded appearance being in November 1790.Maximilian
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, Walburga
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and Magdalena Willmann Johanna Magdalena Willmann (13 September 1771 – 23 December 1801) was a German soprano, one of a family of musicians. She appeared in Bonn and at the court opera in Vienna.
Life
Willmann's father, Johann Ignaz Willmann (1739–1815) was a musicia ...
. Their daughter Caroline
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, an opera singer, was born in 1796.["Willmann, Familie"]
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''Sophie Drinker Institut''. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
Marianne accompanied Ignaz and Magdalena to Venice in 1793; she sang in Graz
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the next year, and in 1795 made her first appearance in Vienna, in Ignaz Umlauf Ignaz Umlauf (1746-1796) was an Austrian composer. He was Kapellmeister of the new German National Singspiel of Emperor Joseph II beginning from 1778 to his death. His son Michael Umlauf (1781-1842) was also a notable composer, and his daughter Elis ...
's ''Die Schöne Schusterin'', and "greatly pleased". In Hamburg (20 September to 4 October 1801) she sang to crowded houses, departing from the city, wrote the correspondent of the ''Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung
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'', "delighted with her extraordinary reception and emoluments."[
In 1803 she sang at the ]Theater an der Wien
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in Vienna, and in July 1804 in Munich. She was next engaged for the Opera in Kassel
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. Upon the organisation of Jérôme Bonaparte
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's French Theatre there, she retired for a time, and sang only in concerts, including a concert for Ferdinand Ries
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in January 1811. In October and November of that year she was again in Munich, where she was a favourite, and returned to Munich in March 1812 to take part in a concert.[
Marianne died in 1813 in ]Klosterneuburg
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.[ The correspondent of a Leipzig journal summed up her qualities thus: "A splendid execution, an imposing voice, practised skill and science in singing, distinguish her most favourably above many celebrities."][
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1768 births
1813 deaths
German operatic sopranos
18th-century German women opera singers
19th-century German women opera singers