Eugenie Sendrey

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Eugenie Sendrey (born August 20, 1884 in Vienna , † November 27, 1955 in Los Angeles ), also Eugenie Szendrei (wedding name), Eugenie Weisz (birth name) and Eugenie Wilms (stage name), was an American soprano of Austro-Hungarian origin who under her maiden name Eugenie Weisz had worked at the Vienna Court Opera under Gustav Mahler . Eugenie Sendrey was the wife of the composer, conductor and musicologist Alfred Szendrei (later: Alfred Sendrey) and the mother of the composer and arranger Albert Richard Sendrey . One of her siblings was the violinist, conductor and composer Paul Weiss (1888–1967, originally Paul Weisz).

Eugenie Sendrey was born in Vienna in 1884 as the daughter of Leopold Weisz and his wife Franciska, née Frankel. She grew up in Vienna with four siblings. As a Jew, Eugenie Sendrey fled with her family from the National Socialists to Paris around 1933. When the Nazis attacked France in May and June 1940, the family had to flee further to the United States. Here she changed her Hungarian surname “Szendrei” to the Americanized spelling “Sendrey”. Sendrey's mother Franciska was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in August 1942 and died there on December 31, 1942. Her father had died in 1921.

literature

  • University of Hamburg: Institute for Historical Musicology: Eugenie Sendrey. In: Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era. September 27, 2017, accessed August 5, 2018 .
  • Uwe Harten : Sendrey (own Szendrei, also Szendrey), Alfred (Aladár) / Eugenie Weiß. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
  • Anna Langenbruch: Topographies of Musical Action in Exile in Paris. A histoire croisée of the exile of German-speaking musicians in Paris 1933-1939 (= musicological publications, 41), Hildesheim et al: Olms, 2014
  • Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. International biographical dictionary of Central European emigrés 1933-1945, 4 vols., Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss , Institute for Contemporary History Munich (ed.), Munich et al: Saur, 1983

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Hamburg: Institute for historical musicology: Eugenie Sendrey. September 27, 2017, accessed August 5, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b c d University of Hamburg: Institute for historical musicology: Paul Weisz, there also Eugenie Sendrey. Retrieved August 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sendrey, Eugenie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weisz, Eugenie (maiden name); Wilms, Eugenie (stage name); Sendrey, Eugenia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Austria-Hungarian soprano
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1955
Place of death los Angeles