Auguste Amalie Schmalz
Auguste Amalie Schmalz ( 1771 in Berlin - 28 November 1848 in Potsdam ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and vocal teacher .
Life
Schmalz, daughter of the organist Johann Daniel Schmalz , received her first singing lessons from the renowned singing master and chamber musician Justus Jacob Kannegießer (died February 15, 1805).
In order to complete her studies, she was then sent to Johann Gottlieb Naumann in Dresden on the orders of Friedrich Wilhelm II , where she took the stage for the first time in the opera Tutto per amore . In 1790 she returned to Berlin and was hired from January 1793 for the Italian opera.
Gerber, who heard her in 1797, wrote of her: "Her full, clear and theater-appropriate voice has the unusual range from g to g" " and I have heard her use all of these tones in an unsurpassably beautiful, clear and uniform manner. One of her roulades can still be heard in my ears, reaching from d to d '' ' , then rising into F sharp' '' and lingering in it for a long time. At the same time, it can swell the tones to their utmost strength and spin them out again, as it were, in quiet threads. But with all this unrestricted control over notes and throat, her presentation always remains simple and modest. "
According to this it is sufficiently clear that her main strength lay in ornamental singing (roles: 1799 "Azema" ( Semiramis ), 1800 "Cleopatra" ( Tigranes ), 1805 "Ismenia" ( Meda ), "Diana" ( Tree of Diana ), "Romeo" ( Zingarelli ), “Queen of the Night” and others), in the dramatic field she could, it seems, neither assert herself next to Margarete Luise Schick nor later to Pauline Anna Milder ; after all, among her roles one finds those of "Donna Anna" (1810–1819: 28 times), "Iphigenia" (1810), "Armida" (1812), "Antigone" (Oedip), so pretty much the main legacy of the great chic.
That she could not maintain her place next to this outstanding artist is also evident from the fact that she committed herself to the Vienna Opera for two years in 1802 and also sought employment and fame at other stages from 1806 to 1810; In 1808 she touched Rome on such game trips and is said to have found great success there. It was not until 1810, after Schick's death, that she permanently belonged to the Berlin Opera House, but from 1817 onward more and more into the background and later only worked as a singing teacher.
She died in Potsdam on November 28, 1848.
literature
- Heinrich Welti: Schmalz, Auguste . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 621.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. XXX, ( digitized ).
Web links
- Auguste Amalie Schmalz at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Remarks
- ↑ Text mainly based on ADB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmalz, Auguste Amalie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1771 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1848 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |