Auguste von Fassmann
Auguste von Faßmann (* 1808 in Lengdorf , Upper Bavaria, † May 22, 1872 in Kolberg , Pomerania ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
She was born at Schloss Kopfsburg in Lengdorf, which had belonged to the Bavarian state since 1802 and was demolished in 1814. Her father was the landowner and tax officer Ludwig Ritter von Faßmann.
First she performed in Munich and in the summer of 1834 made her first guest tour to Stuttgart . After her return to Munich she got a permanent engagement there and made her debut on July 7, 1835 as Agathe in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz . Two years later she moved to the Berlin Opera House , where she first appeared on March 3, 1837 in the title role of Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Armide . In addition, she performed regularly in concerts at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin .
In 1840 she married a Freiherr von Seckendorff . She was retired on May 1, 1848. After the divorce from her first husband, she married a captain von Held and moved with him to Held's estate in Kolberg.
literature
- Gustav Schilling : Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences, or Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst , Supplement-Band, Stuttgart 1842, p. 125f. ( Digitized version )
- Carl von Ledebur : Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present . Ludwig Rauh, Berlin 1861, p. 149 f ., urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10931847-2 ( full text in the Google book search).
- Hermann Arthur Lier: Faßmann, Auguste von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 499.
- Ludwig Eisenberg: Fassmann, Auguste von. In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Leipzig 1903, p. 248 f. ( Digitized version )
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Faßmann, Auguste von. In: Large song dictionary . 3rd edition. Volume 2. Saur, Munich 1997, p. 1091
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd Edition, Volume 3: Einstein – Görner , Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25033-9 , p. 235 ( excerpt from Google Books )
Web links
- Auguste von Faßmann in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph Anton Eisenmann and Carl Friedrich Hohn, Topo-geographical-statistical Lexicon from the Kingdom of Bavaria , Volume 1, Erlangen 1831, pp. 973f. (Digitized version)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fassmann, Auguste von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seckendorff, Auguste Freifrau von; Hero, Auguste von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lengdorf , Upper Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1872 |
| Place of death | Kolberg , Pomerania |