Anna Kraus-Wranitzky

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Katharina Anna Kraus-Wranitzky (born August 27, 1801 ; divergent in 1798 at Eisenberg Castle in Eisenberg ; † June 23, 1851 in Wiesbaden ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Anna Kraus-Wranitzky was the daughter of Anton Wranitzky . Together with her sister Karoline (Seidler-) Wranitzky , she grew up in Eisenberg Castle with the children of Prince Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz and received their upbringing.

During the summer months they lived in Bohemia at Eisenberg Castle and Raudnitz Castle and in winter in the princely Palais Lobkowitz in Vienna . The prince not only had his own court orchestra, but also a house theater where singspiele were performed, so that she and her sister came into contact with high- quality music in their childhood and youth, so they heard Girolamo Crescentini , Liboni, Giovanni Battista Velluti and Antonio Salieri , who were in Vienna at the time.

She received her first singing lessons from her father as well as from Joseph Weigl and Adalbert Gyrowez and already showed her pronounced talent here by learning to read notes effortlessly, quickly grasping the most difficult passages and being able to execute them; Joseph Weigl composed the opera Die Nachtigall und der Rabe (1818) for them and Adalbert Gyrowez composed the opera Aladin or The Necessary and the Superfluous , which premiered on June 30, 1819 at the Kärntnertor Theater in Vienna. The vocal training was continued from 1812 to 1816 by Antonio Salieri. In addition to her talent for singing, she also showed her inclination for the performing arts.

At the age of 16 she was already performing in Vienna in public concerts that her father and brothers used to organize. So she sang on the occasion of the wedding of Emperor Franz I on November 10, 1816 with Princess Karoline Auguste of Bavaria (1792–1873), daughter of King Maximilian I , for which she received a gift of 1,600 ducats and she became the first female singer Court singer appointed.

In 1819 she was appointed to the royal Saxon court in Dresden to appear at the wedding of Prince Friedrich August II of Saxony and Archduchess Maria Karoline of Austria .

Anna Wranitzky married the diplomat Anton Kraus in October 1820 and shortly after the wedding they traveled to Italy , where they visited Girolamo Crescentini, Giovanni Battista Peruchini (1784–1870) and Carlo Magnelli to further train their singing.

In 1823 she was won in Leipzig for the Gewandhaus concerts and stayed there for the following year. She then went on extensive guest tours to Prague , Munich (September), Frankfurt am Main (October) and Hanover (December). In February 1825 she returned to Vienna. In the autumn of 1826 she again undertook guest tours to Stuttgart , Mannheim (November and December 1826), Hamburg (January 1827), Berlin (September 1827), Bremen (May 1828) and Leipzig (August 1828). From October 1828 to April 1829 she appeared at the Stadttheater Hamburg , where she sang the Rezia in the first performance of Oberon on January 15, 1829. In the winter of 1829/1830 she performed again in Hamburg and from December 1831 to January 1832 she had guest appearances in Dresden, from March to May 1832 in Frankfurt am Main and from April to May 1833 in Munich

In her capacity as an imperial court and chamber singer, she performed at court concerts and so she also had a performance at the Vienna Sound Festival in 1834, after which she was won over for the imperial court stage at the Kärntnertor.

In 1835 she was persuaded in Vienna to appear in a number of guest roles, including works in Bellinese .

Due to the upbringing of her daughters, she withdrew from her artistic career and last appeared at Whitsun 1837 at the Lower Rhine Song Festival in Aachen , when she sang the first female role in Georg Friedrich Handel's Belshazzar under Ferdinand Ries' direction , then she resigned as a concert singer.

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