Clementine by Schuch-Proska

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Clementine by Schuch-Proska

Clementine Edle von Schuch-Proska , b. Procházka, (born February 12, 1850 in Ödenburg (Hungarian Sopron); † June 8, 1932 in Kötzschenbroda , today Radebeul ) was an Austrian opera singer ( coloratura soprano ) who was the audience favorite and as a chamber singer an honorary member of the Dresden Court Opera.

Live and act

Grave of Ernst von Schuch and Clementine von Schuch-Proska in the Radebeul-West cemetery

Prochazka studied at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna with Mathilde Marchesi . Immediately afterwards she was engaged in 1873 with the debut role of Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale as a coloratura soprano at the Dresden Court Opera , where she became a crowd favorite. In 1878 she was appointed royal chamber singer.

Schuch-Proska was married to the conductor Ernst von Schuch (1846–1914) since 1875 . In 1882 they took up residence in Niederlößnitz on Weintraubenstrasse (renamed Schuchstrasse 15/17 at their own request in 1883 ).

Guest appearances took her to Vienna in 1875 with the opera Der Apotheker by Joseph Haydn , later as an opera and concert singer at leading German theaters (Hofoper Vienna 1881, 1882 and Berlin 1881 and Stadttheater von Zürich 1880) as well as to Moscow and St. Petersburg. At the Covent Garden Opera in London in 1884 she performed Eva in Wagner's Meistersinger and Ännchen in Weber's Freischütz . In 1891, the composer Pittrich dedicated two of his early works, the “Wiegendlied” and the song “Mägdlein, take you in eight”, to her as “ Kammersängerin ”, which were “immediately popular”.

After her official departure in 1894 with her former debut role as Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale, she occasionally appeared as a guest in Dresden until 1898, where she was made an honorary member. In 1898 she and her husband Ernst von Schuch were raised to the nobility by the Austrian emperor. In addition, she was awarded the “Virtuti et Ingenio” medal for her artistic achievements.

Clementine von Schuch-Proska is buried with her husband in the Radebeul-West cemetery , near their daughter Liesel.

Her daughter Liesel von Schuch (1891–1990), the youngest of five children, and her older sister Käthe (1885–1973; also married to Ullmann and Schmidt) also started singing. The son Hans von Schuch (1886–1963) became a well-known cellist. His daughter Clementine von Schuch (1921-2014) also became an opera singer.

Roles (selection)

honors and awards

Coat of arms for Ernst von Schuch, his wife and their descendants

The chamber singer and her husband Ernst Schuch were raised to hereditary nobility by the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1898 with the predicate Noble von . To stage farewell in the same year, she with one of her signature roles, of Norina in Don Pasquale was Donizetti was she by the Saxon King Albert to honorary member appointed by the Court Opera in Dresden.

Schuch received several awards in the course of her activity:

Artist family

The parents Ernst and Clementine von Schuch were followed by two more generations of musically gifted descendants:

literature

Web links

Commons : Clementine von Schuch-Proska  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Clementine von Schuch-Proska at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
  2. ^ Musikverlag Schott , Mainz 1891, title registration, Austrian National Library: Hofmeister: Musical-literary monthly report , volume: 1891, p. 378 (September issue); Digitized: ÖNB-ANNO book
  3. Georg Pittrich "in: Roeder, Ernst: The Dresden Court Theater of the Present. Biographical-critical sketches of the members . E. Person's Verlag, Dresden / Leipzig, 1896, pp. (271-280) 274;
  4. Kathrin Wallrabe (Ed.): Clementine von Schuch-Proska, b. Proska . In: Frauenzimmer - women in the room? Text collection. City of Radebeul, Radebeul 2005, p. 43.
  5. Gabriella Hanke Knaus:  Schuch, Ernst Edler von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 619 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. 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. 55.