Henny Wolff

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Henny Wolff (born February 3, 1896 in Cologne , † January 29, 1965 in Hamburg ) was a German concert singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

education

Her father was Karl Wolff , senior editor and music critic at the Kölner Tageblatt , her mother Henriette Wolff-Dwillat was a concert singer and singing teacher. Henny received her vocal training from her mother and then, at the age of ten to sixteen, from 1906 to 1912 at the Cologne Conservatory , where she also studied piano , and finally from 1922 with Julius von Raatz-Brockmann in Berlin.

Career

Her first public appearance took place in 1912 at a Gürzenich concert in Cologne. After the First World War, she formed the Rhenish Vocal Quartet with the alto Kuhl-Dahlmann, the tenor Arnold Schilbach and the bass-baritone Ernst Everts until she left for Berlin in 1922 .

Henny Wolff gained an international reputation as an interpreter of the oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel and the lied compositions by Johannes Brahms , but also contemporary works such as B. Hermann Reutter's were part of her repertoire . Concert tours in Germany, Italy, Romania and Yugoslavia brought her significant success. Only occasionally did she appear on the opera stage .

Grave slab in the women's garden

Henny Wolff also worked as a singing teacher throughout his life. From 1914 to 1916 she taught at the conservatory in Cologne, appointed by Hermann Abendroth , and from 1922 she also taught in Berlin. After the Second World War she moved to Hamburg, where she headed the solo singing class at the State University of Music , founded in 1950, from 1950 to 1964 , and became a professor in 1952 . Well-known students of Henny Wolff were Judith Beckmann , Ingeborg Reichelt , Elisabeth Schärtel and Gerti Zeumer .

Henny Wolff died in Hamburg in 1965 and was buried in the main cemetery in Ohlsdorf . After her grave site is over, her grave stone is now in the women's garden at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Honors

  • In 1943 Ernst-Lothar von Knorr dedicated four song compositions to her: Four songs for a soprano voice and piano: based on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George; "For Henny Wolff".
  • In 1958, Henny Wolff was awarded the Johannes Brahms Medal in recognition of her ability to bring Brahms closer to a wide audience .
  • In the women's garden in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf , a memorial stone commemorates Henny Wolff.

literature

  • Article Wolff, Henny in: Erich H. Müller: German Musicians Lexicon . Limpert, Dresden 1929, column 1601 <Entries are based on information provided by the artist> Online
  • Henny Wolff: A good child In: Josef Müller-Marein , Hannes Reinhardt: The musical self-portrait of composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers of our time. Nannen, Hamburg 1963.
  • Wolff, Henny , in: Kutsch / Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon . 3. Edition. Saur, Bern and Munich 1997. Vol. 5, p. 3758

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year 1890, which can be found on some websites, seems to be a reading or printing error.
  2. ^ Hans-Georg Klose: Newspaper Studies in Cologne . Munich etc. 1989, p. 61
  3. ↑ See e.g. BEW Fritzsch (ed.): Musikalisches Wochenblatt 25th year, Leipzig, 1894 (p. 580: Concertumschau, Cöln) and signals for the musical world. 52nd year, Bartholt Senff, Leipzig, 1894, p. 1107.
  4. ^ Dietmar von Capitaine: Conservatorium der Musik in Cöln. Newly revised and expanded edition, BoD, Norderstedt, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-5294-7 , p. 75
  5. ^ AC. 4. 5-6, cf. Rita Bake, Brita Reimers: City of Dead Women. Portraits of women and life pictures from the Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930802-56-2 , p. 182. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  6. ↑ Ernst-Lothar von Knorr: Four songs for a soprano voice and piano. Ernesto Musikverlag, 1996 limited preview in the Google book search
  7. ↑ Henny Wolff. (No longer available online.) In: Menschenundorden.hdg.de. Archived from the original on January 2, 2015 ; accessed on January 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Menschenundorden.hdg.de
  8. ^ Henny Wolff short portrait at Kulturschaffende Frauen; Women's garden e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Henny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert singer (soprano) and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1965
Place of death Hamburg