Auguste Türrschmidt

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Auguste Türrschmidt , also written Türrschmiedt , née Braun (born November 20, 1800 in Berlin ; † September 7, 1866 there ) was a German concert singer and music teacher .

Life

Auguste Braun grew up in a family of musicians. Her father, Johann Daniel Braun , was a well-known cellist . Her mother, Catharina, née van Esveld Holtrop, Brouwer according to other sources, was a soprano .

In her youth, Auguste Braun received singing lessons, initially as a soprano. In 1814 she entered the Berlin Singing Academy and was trained by Constanze Blanck , now as an alto . In 1815 she married her piano teacher Karl (or Carl ) Nicolaus Türrschmidt.

She appeared in public for the first time in 1815 and was soon considered the best alto voice in Berlin. In 1829 she was involved in the famous revival of the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Singakademie and sang one of the solo parts together with Pauline von Schätzel , Anna Milder-Hauptmann and Eduard Devrient .

Furthermore, she worked as a soloist in the performance of many works at the Singakademie until 1837, including a series of oratorios by Georg Friedrich Handel , the Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the B minor Mass by Bach. From 1835 to 1838 she was the head of the Singing Academy, to which she remained connected until her death.

After her public solo appearances, she worked as a singing teacher.

reception

Fanny Hensel wrote about the world premiere of a cantata by her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Singakademie in 1828: The solos were sung by Milder, Stümer , der Türrschmiedt and Devrient, everything was so perfect and the recording was so enjoyable that I didn't see any remember more pleasant hours. Hensel wrote about a Sunday concert in her apartment in 1835: The choirs were strong, all solo voices were very well cast, Decker and Thürrschmiedt, Stümer and Hauser sang beautifully.

In the Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences edited by Gustav Schilling it says about Auguste Türrschmidt: is only a dilettante , but an excellent alto singer, leaving many artists and singers far behind. [...] It is a pity that it was in no way exclusively available to art.

Private

Auguste Türrschmidt was married to Karl Nicolaus Türrschmidt (1776–1862), who came from a well-known family of musicians. His father and grandfather, Karl (1753–1797) and Johann (1725–1800) Türrschmidt, were well-known horn players .

The spelling of the family name varied. In addition to the most common forms of Türrschmidt and Türrschmiedt , a number of other variants have been identified.

In addition to Fanny Hensel , the Türrschmidt family was friends with Gustav Magnus and Eduard Magnus , among others .

Auguste Türrschmidt was the mother of the ceramicist and master builder Albrecht Türrschmiedt , the mother-in-law of the writer Gustav Robert-Tornow and the grandmother of the translator Walter Robert- Tornow .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Auguste Türrschmidt in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
  2. ^ A b c d e Carl von Ledebur : Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present. Ludwig Rauh, Berlin 1861, p. 610 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ a b Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel , Sigrid Countess von Strachwitz: Europe in Portrait: Drawings by Wilhelm Hensel 1794-1861. M-Z . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-786-11994-5 , p. 236.
  4. ↑ Entry on Auguste Türrschmiedt in: Gustav Schilling (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences or Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst . Sixth volume. Fritz Heinrich Köhler, Stuttgart 1838, p. 713.
personal data
SURNAME Türrschmidt, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Auguste (maiden name); Türrschmiedt, Auguste; Thürrschmiedt, Auguste; Thürrschmidt, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert singer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1866
Place of death Berlin