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Raimund Von Zur-Mühlen
Baron Raimund von zur-Mühlen (sometimes "Raymond", "Raimund von Zur Mühlen") (10 November 1854 in Uusna Manor (''Neu-Tennasilm''), Viljandi Parish (now in Viiratsi Parish), Viljandi County, Governorate of Livonia – 11 December 1931 in Wiston, West Sussex, Wiston, near Steyning, England) was a celebrated tenor Lieder singer who also became a famous teacher of singing, instructing many famous artists. His Lieder-interpretations are legendary. Life and career He was a student of Auguste Hohenschildt, Felix Schmidt, Adolf Schulze, Julius Stockhausen and Clara Schumann. He made his debut in 1878, together with Hans Schmidt (musician), Hans Schmidt, in Riga. He then continued working on his capabilities as a singer, above all with Manuel García (baritone), Manuel Garcia, Beniamino Carelli and Pauline Viardot.This paragraph derived from German wikipedia. He is recognised as the founder of the Lieder-abend or evening recital of the German concert Lieder as a distinct performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimund Von Zur-Mühlen (Sport Und Salon 1900)
Raimund is thought to be a variant of the name Raymond. It is closely related to . Raimund may refer to: People Given name * Raimund Abraham (1933–2010), Austrian architect * Raimund Bethge (born 1947), East German bobsledder * Raimund Herincx (1927-2018), British operatic bass baritone * Raimund Krauth (1952–2012), German footballer * Raimund Kull (1882–1942), Estonian conductor and composer * Raimund Hermann Siegfried Moltke (1869–1958), German writer and economist * Raimund Marasigan (born 1971), Filipino rock musician and record producer * Raimund Pigneter (20th century), Italian luger * Raimund Riedewald (born 1986), Dutch footballer * Raimund von Stillfried (1839-1911), Austrian photographer Surname * Ferdinand Raimund (1790-1836), Austrian actor and dramatist Other uses * Raimond, a name, variant spelling of Raimund * Raimund Theater, a theatre in Vienna, Austria See also * Raymund Schwager (1935-2004), Swiss Roman Catholic theologian {{disambig, given name, su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Viardot
Pauline Viardot (; 18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a French dramatic mezzo-soprano, composer and pedagogue of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García,FitzLyon, p. 15, referring to the baptismal name. Thbirth recorddigitized at Paris's ''État civil reconstitué (XVIe-1859)'' reads instead: "Michelle Pauline Ferdinande Laurence Garcia". she came from a musical family and took up music at a young age. She began performing as a teenager and had a long and illustrious career as a star performer. Name Her name appears in various forms. When it is not simply "Pauline Viardot", it most commonly appears in association with her maiden name García or the unaccented form, Garcia. This name sometimes precedes Viardot and sometimes follows it. Sometimes the words are hyphenated; sometimes they are not. She achieved initial fame as "Pauline García"; the accent was dropped at some point, but exactly when is not clear. After her marriage, she referred to herself simply as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristocracy
Aristocracy (; ) is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocracy (class), aristocrats. Across Europe, the aristocracy exercised immense Economy, economic, Politics, political, and social influence. In Western Christian countries, the aristocracy was mostly equal with magnates, also known as the titled or higher nobility, however the members of the more numerous social class, the untitled lower nobility (petty nobility or gentry) were not part of the aristocracy. Classical aristocracy In ancient Greece, the Greeks conceived aristocracy as rule by the best-qualified citizens—and often contrasted it favorably with monarchy, rule by an individual. The term was first used by such ancient Greeks as Aristotle and Plato, who used it to describe a system where only the best of the citizens, chosen through a careful process of selection, would become rulers, and hereditary monarchy, hereditary rule would actually have been f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Weißenborn
Hermann Weißenborn (10 September 1876 – 20 November 1959) was a German operatic baritone and voice teacher. Born in Berlin, Weißenborn was trained musically mostly by Raimund von Zur Mühlen. He began a career as a concert and oratorio singer. He turned early to music education. He became one of the most sought-after singing teachers of his generation in Germany. From 1920 he taught at the Musikhochschule Berlin. Since 1922 he was head of the singing department of this university. Among his many well-known students were Joseph Schmidt, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Höngen, Marga Höffgen, Hildegard Rütgers Hildegard Rütgers (born 1930) is a German classical contralto singer in opera and concert. Biography Rütgers began her training with Hermann Weißenborn in Berlin, then studied briefly in Italy and then with Hilde Wesselmann at the Folkwangsch ... and Petre Munteanu. Weißenborn died in Berlin at age 83. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Weissenborn, Hermann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naima Wifstrand
Naima Wifstrand (; 4 September 1890 – 23 October 1968) was a Swedish film actress, operetta singer, troubadour, List of opera directors, director and composer. In her later years, she was cast in several supporting roles in Ingmar Bergman films. Biography Born Siri Naima Matilda Wifstrand in Stockholm in 1890, she was raised by her mother in Fleminggatan. Wifstrand never trained acting but learned the art thoroughly when she in 1905 joined the Anna Lundberg Theatre Company, a well reputed and respected theatre company in Sweden at the time. She travelled with them for a number of years, appearing in small parts. This eventually led her to small parts at theatres in Helsinki and around Stockholm. But at this time Wifstrand did not have her mind set on acting, instead she sought to be a singer. And it was as a grand operetta singer she became famous and enjoyed a successful star career for 30 years in Sweden. Career and break-through Wifstrand studied music and singing in Stock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Opfer
Fanny Opfer (24 September 1870 – 28 March 1944) was a German soprano and singing teacher. Life Born in Berlin, Opfer was a student of Etelka Gerster, Selma Nicklass-Kempner, and Raimund von Zur Mühlen. She made her debut as a concert singer in 1892. Her repertoire was made of Lieder and Oratorios. Besides her concert activities, she taught singing at the Breslau Conservatory and also had private pupils in Berlin. The "Machtergreifung" by the Nazis (she was in her early 60s at the time) increasingly restricted her professional activities. Nevertheless, she remained living in Berlin. In August 1943 she was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination c ..., where she was murdered the following year. The exact circumstances of her death ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidé Norena
Karoline "Kaja" Eide Hansen, known professionally as Eidé Norena (April 26, 1884 – November 13, 1968) was a Norwegian soprano. Born in Horten, Norena studied in Oslo, Weimar, London, and Paris; her teachers included Ellen Gulbranson and Raimund von zur-Mühlen, and she received advice as well from Nellie Melba. She began her career as a concert singer before making her stage debut in ''Orfeo ed Euridice'' in Oslo. Soon thereafter she auditioned for Arturo Toscanini, who hired her to sing at La Scala. She sang at the Royal Opera House for several seasons, and from 1933 to 1938 she appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, making her debut there in ''La bohème'' on February 9, 1933. For six seasons she was on the roster of the Chicago Civic Opera. Norena was highly regarded as an actress, having been trained by her onetime husband, Egil Eide, to whom she was married from 1909 until 1939. Highly regarded for her work in Italian roles, she was especially noted for her performances as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Lissmann (tenor)
Hans Lissmann, also ''Hans Lißmann'', (19 September 1885 – 26 May 1964) was a German operatic tenor. Life Born in Hamburg, Lissman was the son of the bass baritone Friedrich Heinrich Lissmann (1847–1894) and the soprano Anna Marie Lissmann-Gutzschbach (1847–1928). His sister Eva-Katharina Lissmann (1883–after 1917) was also a concert singer. Lißmann studied Ochestral conducting, among others with Arthur Nikisch at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig and at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, and subsequently worked as a conductor at various German theatres. He received his vocal training with Raimund von Zur Mühlen in London and with Ernesto Colli in Milan. in 1913 he came back to Germany. After a short engagement at the Hamburg Volksoper he was first lyrical tenor at the Neues Theater (Leipzig), Opera in Leipzig from 1914 until 1933. There, he sang more than 100 parts, e.g. in 1919 in the world premiere of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, (; 9 December 1915 – 3 August 2006) was a German-born Austro-British lyric soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher internationally. She is considered one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century. Early life Schwarzkopf was born on 9 December 1915 in Jarocin, Jarotschin in the Province of Posen in Prussia, German Empire, Germany (now in Poland), to Friedrich Schwarzkopf and his wife, Elisabeth (). Schwarzkopf performed in her first opera in 1928, as Eurydice in a school production of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Gluck's ''Orfeo ed Euridice'' in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1934, Schwarzkopf began her musical studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin Hochschule für Musik, where her singing tutor, Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, attempted to train he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lula Mysz-Gmeiner
Lula Mysz-Gmeiner (born Julie Sophie Gmeiner; 15 August 1876 – 7 August 1948) was a German concert contralto and mezzo-soprano born in Transylvania, who performed lieder recitals in Europe and the United States. She was an academic voice teacher in Berlin and taught both Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Peter Anders. Career She was born Julie Sophie Gmeiner in Kronstadt (Brassó), in the region of Transylvania, in Austria-Hungary (today Brașov, Romania). She was the third of ten siblings, called Lula. The children received early musical instruction, and several of her siblings also became professional musicians: the mezzo-soprano Ella Gmeiner, the bass-baritone Rudolf Gmeiner, the cellist Julius Gmeiner, and the pianist Luise Gmeiner. Lula learned the violin at age six and played in the Kronstadt orchestra at age 15. A year later, she began voice lessons with the composer Rudolf Lassel, who dedicated a composition to her and premiered it with her. From age 18, she studied at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coenraad V
Coenraad is a Dutch given name. Notable persons with that name include: *Coenraad van Beuningen (1622–1693), diplomat for Dutch Republic *Coenraad Beyers (1893–1975), South African historian, archivist, and herald * Coenraad Bloemendal (born 1946), Canadian cellist * Coenraad Bron (1937–2006), Dutch computer scientist who worked with Edsger W. Dijkstra on Algol-68 *Coenraad de Buys (1761–1821), Cape Colony cattle raider *Hasselt (1797–1823), Dutch physician, zoologist, botanist and mycologist *Coenraad Hiebendaal (1879–1921), Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics * Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801–1887), Dutch chemist and chocolate maker *Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen (1884–1962), Dutch chemist and biochemist who isolated vitamin B1 *Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778–1858), Dutch aristocrat and zoologist See also * Coen (other) * Koenraad * Conrad (name) Conrad is a Germanic languages, Germanic masculine given name and a surname. Origin a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Beigel
Victor Beigel (19 May 1870 – 7 November 1930) was an English pianist and singing teacher of Hungarian descent. Beigel was an internationally renowned vocal pedagogue. Friendships connected him with the painter John Singer Sargent, the interior designer Sybil Colefax and the composers John Ireland (composer), John Ireland and Percy Grainger, whose choir rehearsals he accompanied on the piano for years. He was also a friend of his student Gervase Elwes, after whose death in 1921 he founded the Gervase Elwes Memorial Fund (later the Musicians Benevolent Fund) to support young musicians. His students included Lauritz Melchior, Anita Patti Brown, John Goss (baritone), John Goss and Monica Harrison. During the First World War, he gave and organised benefit concerts in support of the "Wounded Soldiers Concert Fund". on composers-classic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
