Elsa Laura von Wolzüge
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Elsa Laura von Wolhaben (* as Elsa Laura Seemann von Mangern on August 5, 1876 in Dresden ; † April 25, 1945 in Admont ) was a lute singer in Berlin, a song collector and lute composer.
Life
Her parents had a family pension in Dresden, where famous artists and scholars like Arthur Rubinstein stayed . Elsa Laura von Wolhaben was trained as a singer and performed in song recitals in which she accompanied herself to folk songs and her own songs to the lute . She was a popular song singer around the turn of the century and early 20th century and published several collections of lute songs. She was sponsored by her future husband Ernst Freiherr von Wolhaben , known as the founder of the German cabaret, whom she married in 1902 and with whom she lived in Berlin .
In the manual for the lute and guitar , her performance is described as "stylish and graceful" and the sentence style as simple and pleasing, "accessible even to less skilled players by using the essay".
She is credited with the German version of the song In Flandern reitet der Tod , the melody of which is based on a “Rhenish nun's dance song ” from the 15th century. She not only performed German, but also, for example, French and Scandinavian folk songs.
Fonts
- A hundred German folk songs, selected, edited and sung to the lute by Elsa Laura von Wolzüge. 1908 ( digitized version ).
- Me and my lute. Graz 1917.
- Rosemary and lozenge. Old songs to the lute. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1911, new edition 1921.
- Ten cheerful little queens. Hofmeister, 1912.
- Wilhelm Busch songs. Hofmeister.
- My songs to the lute. Hofmeister, Leipzig from 1910, 10 booklets ( digitized ).
literature
- Josef Zuth: Handbook of the lute and guitar. 1972 (Lexical entry).
- Evelin Förster : The woman in the dark. Authors and composers of cabaret and entertainment from 1901–1935. Edition Braus, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86228-057-5 , pp. 188–197
Web links
- Short biography in the folk song archive
- Songs at Deutsches Lied
- Photo in the portrait collection of Manskopf University Frankfurt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Zuth: Handbook of the lute and guitar.
- ↑ Death rides a coal-black black horse (Flanders in Need) | Folk songs archive (10,000 songs). Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolzog, Elsa Laura from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seaman von Mangern, Elsa Laura (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German song singer and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1945 |
| Place of death | Admont |