Elisabeth Bohm van Endert

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Elisabeth Böhm van Endert (born Elisabeth van Endert , born December 31, 1876 in Neuss ; † February 27, 1956 in Zurich ) was a German opera and concert singer ( soprano ), chamber singer and vocal teacher .

Live and act

Origin and family

Elisabeth Böhm van Endert was the daughter of the furniture and silk goods manufacturer Rudolf van Endert (1835–1881) and his wife Elisabeth, b. van Endert (1847–1928), who continued the company after the early death of her husband. Both parents came from two different lines of a Flemish drapery family. Elisabeth was one of ten children; three of her siblings died in childhood. Her younger sister was Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb , whose daughter Elisabeth was married to Wilhelm Furtwängler for the second time .

Elisabeth van Endert was in first marriage with the composer Adolph Paul Boehm married (1878-1911), who during the later pending divorce action suicide committed. Her second marriage was in 1916 with Leo Bernhard Curth (1875–1933), director of the Deutsche Grammophon-Gesellschaft and later of Electrola GmbH

Artistic career

Elisabeth van Endert received singing and piano lessons in her youth and went on extensive educational trips to France and Italy (including Paris, Venice, Pisa, Nice, Monte Carlo) with her mother and her two sisters Katharina and Amélie. She completed her vocal studies with Wally Schauseil in Düsseldorf, Richard Müller in Dresden and with Adelina Paschalis-Souvestre in Milan. In 1906 she began her artistic career as a concert and oratorio singer in Cologne, Mannheim, Frankfurt am Main and Dresden.

On the intention of the general music director Ernst von Schuch she switched to the opera and made her debut in 1907 as Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust at the Dresden Court Opera , where she was engaged until 1910. Here she sang, among other things, in 1909 at the world premiere of the opera Elektra by Richard Strauss as "Schleppträgerin". From 1910 she worked in Berlin, first until 1913 at the Berlin Court Opera , then until 1921 at the German Opera House in Berlin and then until 1923 at the State Opera . In 1913 she was appointed royal chamber singer . Guest performances and tours have taken her to England, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, among others. In the 1920s she made two major tours of North America.

From 1923 Van Endert only appeared sporadically in the context of guest performances on the opera stage and worked again as a concert singer. In 1926 she went on tour to Holland and also performed in London. After finishing her career as a singer, she taught singing and emigrated to North America in 1935.

In addition to some sound recordings, the only film recording with Elisabeth Böhm van Endert was made in 1916. Here she sang Elsa in Lohengrin by Richard Wagner alongside Felix Dahn (Lohengrin), Ernst Lehmann (King Heinrich), Max Salzinger (Telramund) and Frieda Langendorff (Ortrud) under the direction of the conductor Hermann Stange .

Opera roles (selection)

Elisabeth Böhm van Endert as "Mignon" in the opera of the same name by Ambroise Thomas

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cornelia Baddack: Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb (1879–1962) in the Weimar Republic: company heir , member of the Reichstag, founder of a society , political salonnière and journalist . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8470-0614-5 ( google.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  2. ^ Hugo Riemann: Musik-Lexikon: First volume . BoD - Books on Demand, 2017, ISBN 978-9925-07751-9 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Illustrated Kronen-Zeitung of November 21, 1911, page 7
  4. ↑ Note: Leo Bernhard Curth (born June 28, 1875 in Ratibor ; † March 22, 1933 in London )
  5. ↑ http://www.recordingpioneers.com/RP_CURTH2.html and Phonographische Zeitschrift No. 6 1933, page 160
  6. ^ German biography. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  7. ^ Paul Marie Guillaume Joseph de Wit, Hermann Karl Anton Matzke: Journal for instrument making . 1932 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2020]).
  8. ↑ a b c Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 ( google.de [accessed June 19, 2020]).
  9. ^ Boston Symphony Orchestra: Programs . The Orchestra, 1913 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2020]).
  10. ^ New Vienna Journal of June 1, 1913
  11. ^ Müller: German Musicians Lexicon . Dresden 1929
  12. ^ JH Wallfisch: Lichtspieloper: the complete Lohengrin in the cinema . Neue Zeitschrift für Musik No. 42 1916 (October 19, 1916), page 326f https://archive.org/details/NeueZeitschriftFrMusik1916Jg083/page/n341/mode/2up
  13. ↑ see entry at IMDb
  14. ↑ The voice of his master . H. Schneider, 1992, ISBN 978-3-7952-0705-2 ( google.de [accessed June 20, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Boehm van Endert, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES van Endert, Elisabeth; Boehm, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and concert singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1956
Place of death Zurich