Clementine von Schuch

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Clementine Edle von Schuch (born July 24, 1921 in Dresden ; † June 29, 2014 in Berlin ; also Clementine von Schuch II and junior ) was a German concert and opera singer ( soprano ), but also gave roles for mezzo-soprano or old are written.

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Gravestone for Clementine von Schuch in the Lichterfelde cemetery

Schuch was the daughter of cellist Hans von Schuch (1886–1963) and his wife Valeria Koslerova, a ballet dancer of the royal Dresden ballet ensemble. She was a granddaughter of the important Dresden conductor Ernst von Schuch (1847–1914) and his wife, chamber singer Clementine von Schuch-Proska (1850–1932). Through her maternal aunt, Klara (Lala) Koszler (also: Koslerova), she was related by marriage to Klaus Pringsheim senior , whose sister Katia was married to Thomas Mann .

Clementine von Schuch received her training from her aunt, the coloratura soprano Liesel von Schuch (1891–1990), in Dresden, whereupon her first stage engagement took place from 1942 to 1944 at the City Theater in Königsberg .

During the first opera performance in Dresden after the Second World War on August 10, 1945, Clementine von Schuch gave the cherubino ( mezzo-soprano ) from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in the Small House on Glacisstrasse .

After the Second World War, she performed at the Dresden State Opera from 1945 to 1947 , after which she was engaged in 1947 at the newly founded Komische Oper in Berlin , where she worked until the 1960s. She sang medium and small roles from all areas of opera, for example the Mercédès in Bizet's Carmen , the Antonia (mezzo-soprano) in Tiefland by Eugen d'Albert , the Annina ( alto ) in the Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss , the Frugola (alto) in Puccini's Il tabarro , the Hortense in Die Wirtin von Pinsk by Richard Mohaupt and the Sebastian in Arthur Kusterer's What you want .

In 1968 she gave the Louise (alto) in the Parisian Leben of Jacques Offenbach , with the Berliner Symphoniker under Franz Allers and the choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin .

In 2011, Clementine von Schuch from Berlin, together with two cousins, Schuch's granddaughters Brigitte Bela from Bonn (daughter of Käthe von Schuch-Schmidt ) and Sabine Lämmel from Saarbrücken, the Ernst Edler von Schuch family foundation, which is part of the Dresden City Museum , built the heirlooms presented to the Dresden City Museum by her important grandparents from their creative days. This family foundation is not only supposed to document the past, but also wants to promote young musical talent in the future.

Schuch died on June 29, 2014; she leaves a daughter. The urn burial took place in August 2014 at the Lichterfelde cemetery .

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  1. ↑ Schuch, family.
  2. ↑ Clementine von Schuch died in 2014.
  3. ↑ Erika Eschebach (ed.), Andrea Rudolph (ed.): Die Schuchs. A family of artists in Dresden. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-098-7 , p. 43.
  4. ^ Dresden, Glacisstraße, Tonhalle (small house). First opera performance after the war: Figaro's wedding by WA Mozart. Conductor Joseph Keilberth, direction Heinz Arnold, set Karl von Appen; Figaro Joseph Herrmann, Elfriede Weidlich as Susanne, Arno Schellenberg as Count, Christel Goltz as Countess, Clementine von Schuch as Cherubin, August 10, 1945. In: Deutsche Fotothek , accessed on July 11, 2012.
  5. ↑ La Vie Parisienne
  6. ↑ An ivory baton for the city museum. With the estate of court conductor Ernst Edel von Schuch, the city museum is writing a new chapter in music history. , accessed July 11, 2012.
  7. ↑ Obituary from July 27, 2014 in Tagesspiegel, accessed on August 4, 2014.
  8. ^ Obituary notice of July 20, 2014 in the Berliner Morgenpost , accessed on July 20, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Schuch, Clementine von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuch, Clementine Edle von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert and opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2014
Place of death Berlin