Anna Milder-Hauptmann

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Anna Milder-Hauptmann , painting by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow , around 1818
Anna Milder-Hauptmann , after a drawing by Sigmund Ferdinand von Perger

Anna Pauline Milder-Hauptmann (born December 13, 1785 in Constantinople , † May 29, 1838 in Berlin ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Her father was the confectioner Felix Milder from Salzburg , interpreter in the service of the Austrian envoy Peter Philipp Herbert, Freiherr von Rathkeal (1735-1802). In 1795 the family moved to Hütteldorf near Vienna . In addition to piano lessons, Milder also received singing lessons from Antonio Salieri and Sigismund von Neukomm . She was sponsored by Emanuel Schikaneder and made her debut on April 9, 1803 at Schikaneder's Theater an der Wien as Juno in Franz Xaver Süßmayr's singspiel Der Spiegel von Arkadien . In Ignaz von Seyfried's heroic opera Cyrus , she took on the role of Cambyses . According to a conscription sheet drawn up in 1805 for the theater, the house Laimgrube No. 26, she lived there with her parents and her sister Jeanette at that time, together with the young Elisabeth Röckel and her brother Joseph August Röckel . Shortly before, Beethoven had also had an official apartment in the Theater an der Wien.

In 1807 Milder moved to the Kärntnertortheater , where she soon became one of the most admired and successful singers of her time. In 1810, the singer married the Viennese treasurer Paul Peter Hauptmann. In addition to Salieri (Lady Anna in Die Neger ), Luigi Cherubini and Joseph Weigl ( Emmeline ), Beethoven also composed a part for her with Leonore: in 1805, 1806 and 1814 she sang this role in the two world premieres of Leonore and Fidelio .

When Napoléon Bonaparte heard the soprano in Vienna (1809), he was so enthusiastic that he wanted to persuade Milder to move to Paris . But she refused.

In 1819 Milder, who was now engaged in Berlin, commissioned Gioachino Rossini and Conradin Kreutzer to compose one-act plays that she wanted to perform on guest tours: Kreutzer and Pius Alexander Wolff's monodrama Adele von Budoy actually premiered in Königsberg in 1821 . Between 1816 and 1829 occurred Milder-Hauptmann, among others, in several (partly for they composed or adapted) Spontini roles at the Berlin Court Opera on. She made guest tours through Germany , Denmark , Sweden and Russia .

On March 11, 1829 she sang under the direction of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy with the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin , of which she had been a member and soloist since 1821, in a re-performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion , the first since the composer's death and 100 Years after it was first played in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig . On February 10, 1830, the world premiere of the singing scene Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (D 965, October / November 1828) by Franz Schubert , composed for her, took place in the Black Heads Hall in Riga . In 1836 she withdrew from the stage entirely.

Anna Milder-Hauptmann died in Berlin in 1838 at the age of 52 and was buried in the St. Hedwig's cemetery on Liesenstrasse, which had opened only a few years earlier . The tomb has been preserved.

Jeanette Milder Burde

Milder's younger sister Jeannette (1799–1875) appeared on various occasions as a pianist and singer and in 1823 became a member of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin . Jeannette studied composition with Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen and published several collections of songs. Her husband, Friedrich Leopold Bürde, was a painter and professor at the Prussian Academy of the Arts . After his death she worked as a piano and singing teacher.

literature

Web links

Commons : Anna Pauline Milder-Hauptmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Lorenz : Maria Eva Hummel. A Postscript . michaelorenz.blogspot.co.at, Vienna 2013
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, pp. 53, 55.