Josefa Beck
Johanna Josefa Beck , also Josepha Beck , née Johanna Scheef (f) he or Johanna Schäfer (around 1765 in Mannheim - April 20, 1827 in Karlsruhe ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Beck trained for the stage under Dorothea Wendling and, after a debut appearance in Ulm, was engaged in Mannheim in 1780, where she was successful as Zémire in Zémire et Azor by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in 1782 . Two years after her marriage to Heinrich Beck in 1788 , she was the first singer to receive a decree of employment for life.
Because of the Revolutionary Wars , she left Mannheim in 1796 and went on a tour that took her to Hamburg and Berlin, among other places. From 1796 to 1797 she worked at the court theater in Gotha and from 1797 to 1798 again in Mannheim. From 1798 to 1801 she was employed with her husband at the Munich court theater , where her performance as “Constanze” in Die Entführung aus dem Serail was particularly admired. Returned to Mannheim in 1801, she worked there continuously until her retirement in 1819 (occasionally also in the theater), then moved to Karlsruhe and died there too.
Her daughters were the actress Louise Beck (1789-1857) and the singer Auguste Beck (1793-1827 at the earliest).
See also
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 67 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Josefa Beck at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruth B. Emde (Ed.): Self-productions in classical Weimar: Caroline Jagemann . 2004, ISBN 978-3-89244-743-6 , p. 276.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Josefa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beck, Johanna Josefa (full name); Beck, Josepha; Scheefer, Johanna (maiden name); Shepherd, Johanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1827 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |