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Emilie "Emmy" Heim (born September 10, 1885 in Vienna , † October 13, 1954 in Toronto ) was an Austrian-Canadian singer ( soprano ) and music teacher.

Life

Heim studied singing in Vienna and made her debut as a song singer in 1911. She toured Germany, Austria-Hungary and Poland and performed in front of soldiers during the First World War . In 1915 she married the poet Emil Alphons Rheinhardt , through whom she got to know important German-speaking poets such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Hugo von Hofmannsthal . She sang songs by Arnold Schönberg . Oskar Kokoschka made a lithographic portrait of her in 1916. In 1921 she married the architect Franz Singer for the second time .

In addition to songs by Schubert , Schumann and Wolf , Heim's repertoire also included works by contemporary composers such as Alban Berg , Egon Wellesz and Arnold Schönberg . In 1919 she sang Berceuses de chat and Pribaoutki by Igor Stravinsky in a concert .

At the beginning of the 1930s, Heim lived in England and maintained a singing studio in Salzburg until Austria was annexed. From 1934 to 1939 she stayed mainly in Canada, where she made her debut at the Hart House Theater in Toronto in 1934 on the recommendation of Ernest MacMillan . When the Second World War broke out , she returned to England, where she appeared in Red Cross hospitals and military camps, and taught at Oxford and Cambridge University .

In 1946 she moved to Canada and received Canadian citizenship in 1954. She taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto until her death . Her students included Joan Hall , Frances James , Eileen Law , Margo MacKinnon , Lois Marshall , Joan Maxwell , James Milligan , Mary Morrison , Jan Simons , and Joyce Sullivan .

Web links

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  1. ^ Portrait of Emmy Heim , at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. James E. Neufeld: Lois Marshall: A Biography . Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2010