Conradi (singer)

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The Conradi († around 1720 ) was the most famous star of the Hamburg Opera from the 1690s to 1706 ; neither her first name nor her date of birth have survived, and the date of her death can only be given vaguely.

Information about the Conradi is provided by Johann Mattheson ( handwritten additions to the Ehrenpforte ), Benjamin Wedel's biography Christian Friedrich Hunolds and, based on Mattheson, the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie - ADB . She was therefore the daughter of a Dresden barber, not educated in music - Mattheson notated, he had to sing the melodies to her, she then sang from memory, with a range of two octaves and a fourth (from the small a to the three-stroke d) .

According to consistent evidence, she was scandalously beautiful: Wedel's biography reports that in 1706, after the scandal, she caused Hunold's Satyrischer Roman (1706) with the publication of her allegedly intimate diary (of daily prostitution, for which she received presents), a Polish one Married nobles and went to Berlin with him. ADB notes that she died as a Gruzewska.

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SURNAME Conradi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruzewska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1720