Reinhold von Warlich (May 24, 1877 - November 10, 1939) was a musician.

Biography

He was born in

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on May 24, 1877. His father was the musical director for the private orchestra of

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. He studied at the Hamburg Conservatory and then in

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. He sang in Florence with G. Sulli and I. Braggiotti, and in Cologne with R. Thiele. He made his solo début in Florence in 1899. He toured England, Germany and France. He spent some years in Paris as a singing teacher. His

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début was in 1909 at Mendelssohn Hall in

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. In 1910 in Paris he married Georgia Cheatham Maize, the widow and second wife of Edward Judson Ovington, who owned the Ovington Gift Shop in Manhattan. Georgia and von Warlich divorced in 1917. In 1923 he married Bertha von Turk-Rohn, daughter of Baroness Olga von Turk-Rohn. He died on November 10, 1939 in

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warlich, Reinhold von 1877 births 1939 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States