Elise Beuer

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Elise Beuer , born as Elisabeth Julia Beuer , married Elise Martens , ( July 21, 1863 in Karlsbad , Bohemia - after 1908) was a German opera singer ( mezzo-soprano , soprano ).

Life

Beuer, daughter of coming from Reichenberg tradesman Ferdinand Josef Beuer, who later as a music director and also as choirmaster worked, sang early in the church solos.

Her father was arranged to send her to Vienna for further singing training. She began her stage career at the Krollschen Theater in Berlin, after which she worked in Breslau (1890), Chemnitz (1890–1891) and Mainz (1891–1892), Leipzig (1892–1899) and at the Hamburg City Theater (1899–1908). In 1907 she was characterized as a “powerful dramatic singer”, ten years earlier in Leipzig the “force of her appearance on the laughing muscles of the audience” had been praised. Rudolf Birgfeld praised her almost enthusiastically in Hamburg: “[...] with her the real dream maiden, whom we longed for and wanted, came. She found the right tone for the Valkyrie who cheerfully storms out to fight, for the goddess daughter who proclaims death to Siegmund with majesty, and for the woman who is deeply hurt in the prospect of a joyless, deprived existence [...] her wonderful, the deep alto tones and the high one Soprano organ with equal strength and beauty enables her to sing roles as varied as Brünnhilde and Azucena in the “Troubadour” with equal perfection […] ”He attested her“ eminent talent for representation ”and finally culminated with the sentence : “And such an artist let the Leipzig theater management go! We can rightly rejoice in their possession and say: Beati possidentes. "

First she sang in the mezzo-soprano class, including “Frau Reich” in the Lustige Weiber von Windsor by Nicolai, the “Adriano” in Rienzi , the “Ortrud” in Lohengrin , the “Fricka” in the Nibelungenring , the “Brangäne” in Tristan , the “Magdalene” in the Meistersinger , the “Gertrud” in Hansel and Gretel , the “Quickly” in the “Falstaff”, the “Azucena” in the Troubadour , the “Amneris” in Aida and the “Fides” in the prophet by Meyerbeer. But she also sang soprano parts: "Leonore" in Fidelio , "Selika" in L'Africaine by Meyerbeer, "Brünnhilde" in the operas of the Ring cycle.

In 1908 she gave up her stage career after her marriage to a Dr. Martens or Dr. Mertens on; however, this marriage seems to have been concluded a few years earlier. and then lived in Freiburg im Breisgau . She said goodbye to the Hamburg audience as Elise Beuer in the role of Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung .

Remarks

  1. ↑ The married name Martens is mentioned by Eisenberg. Its lexicon appeared in 1903.

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Elise Beuer . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 93 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Ferdinand Pfohl: The Hamburg Opera. An uncritical sketch . In: Velhagen & Klasingsmonthshefte , 16th year, 1st volume, 1901

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Signals for the musical world , Volume 65, 1907, p. 1137
  2. ↑ The Speaking Arts. Leipzig concert hall. Journal for Music and Literature with Special Consideration of Leipzig's Musical Life , Volume 3, 1897, p. 556
  3. ↑ Rudolf Birgfeld: Music letters . In: Musikalisches Wochenblatt , Leipzig 1900, p. 556, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  4. ↑ Elise Mertens appears as early as 1903 in the Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 14, p. 291; In 1904 the Martens-Beuer version of the name can be found in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 100, on p. 537.
  5. ↑ In addition to the surname Martens for the married Elise Beuer, the version “Mertens” is also common, cf. August Ludwig Degener: Degeners Who is it? Arani 1935, p. LV, also already in Who is it? from 1911, also in Alfred Einstein: Das neue Musiklexikon , Berlin 1926, p. 54; Text archive - Internet Archive . Irritatingly, there is also information about Elise Mertens, who was also active in music and who lived from November 26, 1868 to December 18, 1940 and whose maiden name was Berger, cf. Kulturimpuls person list 01 on kulturimpuls.org
  6. ↑ Free Deutsches Hochstift , reports, p. 123; archive.org

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personal data
SURNAME Beuer, Elise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beuer, Elisabeth Julia (maiden name); Martens, Elise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (mezzo-soprano, soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH after 1908