Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann
Carolina Wilhelmine Franziska Martienßen-Lohmann , b. Meyer-Estorf (born October 6, 1887 in Bromberg ; † February 2, 1971 in Düsseldorf ) was a German singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .
Life
Franziska Meyer-Estorf first received singing lessons in Bromberg, then she studied piano with Robert Teichmüller in Leipzig . She obtained her artistic degree in 1911, and in the following year she married the pianist and piano teacher Carl Adolf Martienssen . She then studied singing with the famous singer Johannes Messchaert in Berlin . She made her debut in 1914 as a concert singer. In Leipzig she became known as a singer and outstanding vocal teacher. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1927 and she was appointed to the Academy of Music in Munich. There she met Paul Lohmann (1894–1981), who became her closest colleague and ultimately her husband. 1930–1945 she worked at the Berlin Academy for Church and School Music, 1945–1949 at the Weimar State Music Academy ; from 1950 at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf . She taught in master classes in Potsdam , Salzburg , Lucerne and Scandinavia and left behind a literary and pedagogical work that is still counted as a standard work in vocal pedagogy today.
Works
- The real art of singing . 1914
- Conscious Singing, 1923 . Publisher: CF Kahnt, now at CF Peters
- Landscape - people - me. Poems . 1925, with a foreword by Ricarda Huch
- Voice and design . 1927; Publisher: C. F Kahnt, now at C. F Peters
- Appointment and probation of the opera singer . 1943 (today under the title Der Opernsänger in Schott Verlag)
- The knowing singer . 1956, Atlantis music book
- Training of the singing voice . 1957; Rud. Erdmann Music Publishing. First published in 1937 under the title Training the Human Voice .
- Yesterday and always. Poems . 1966, Atlantis Verlag
Awards
- 1958: Mozart Medal from the Mozart Community in Vienna
Web links
- Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Lohmann Foundation
- Franziska Martienßen-Lohmann's estate in the archive of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 230. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
- ^ Inscription Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße: Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann 1958 (accessed June 11, 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martienssen-Lohmann, Franziska |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martienßen-Lohmann, Franziska; Meyer-Estorf, Carolina Wilhelmine Franziska (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer (soprano) and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bromberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 1971 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |