Franziska Cornet

Franziska Cornet , née Franziska Kiel (born January 23, 1808 in Kassel , † August 7, 1870 in Braunschweig ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

As the daughter of the singer Friedrich Wilhelm Kiel (* 1777) and the actress Caroline Kiel b. Gaus (* 1779) she appeared for the first time at the age of seven on April 3, 1815 in Braunschweig in the play "Der verbrrannte Amor", as a singer for the first time at the age of 15. On June 21, 1825 she married the first tenor of the Braunschweig National Theater, Julius Cornet , six months later she went with him to the Hamburg City Theater and in 1832 she returned to Braunschweig, where she was engaged as a coloratura singer at the court theater . In 1839 the couple went back to Hamburg and on to Vienna and Berlin . After the death of her husband in 1860, Franziska Cornet stepped down from the stage and settled in Braunschweig as a singing teacher.

Adele Passy-Cornet was her daughter, her child was Anna Prasch-Passy , her granddaughter, and Anna's children Anton Passy-Cornet and Josef Passy-Cornet were their great-grandchildren.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Cornet, Franciska (in her husband's article) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 3rd part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, p. 5 ( digitized version ).
• Franziska Cornet. In: German stage almanac. 35th year, 1871. pp. 121-123 .
• Ferdinand Spehr :  Cornet, Francisca . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 499 f.
• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 164 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.), Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 126.