Josephine Schultz-Killitschky

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Josephine Schultz-Killitschky, lithograph, around 1820

Josephine Schulz , also Josephine Schultz and Josephine Schulze , née Maria Josepha Killitschky , (born June 24, 1791 in Vienna-Josefstadt ; † January 1, 1880 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Josephine Schulz-Killitschky (birth name at the time also Killitzky, Kil (l) itschgy) was the daughter of the Viennese gold worker Anton Joseph Killitzky and the painter's daughter Rosina, nee. Birgner. She was trained by Antonio Salieri in Vienna, where she performed in churches as a child. She made her public debut in the big concert that Ludwig van Beethoven gave on December 22nd, 1808 at the Theater an der Wien , where she stood in for Anna Milder and performed the aria Ah perfido! op. 65 sang. The music critic Johann Friedrich Reichardt , who was among the audience, spoke approvingly of "Demoiselle Killizky, the beautiful Bohemian [!], With the beautiful voice". The correspondent for the Allgemeine Musikischen Zeitung also emphasized her “very pleasant voice”, but also noted “very little sure and often wrong tones”, which he viewed as “a result of shyness”. In 1809 she made her stage debut as a member of the Viennese court theater in Joseph Weigl's Singspiel Ostade .

In 1810 she received an engagement in Breslau , where she sang the title role on February 28, 1812 at the premiere of Gaspare Spontinis Vestalin and thus entered "the first season of her ladder of fame". In the same year she married the lawyer Ludewig Schultz, who later worked as a judicial commissioner at the Berlin Court of Appeal . After her marriage she used the stage name Josephine Schultz-Killitschky . Other writing styles appear in contemporary reports. Since the Breslau theater was in acute financial crisis towards the end of 1812, the contracts with the singers were terminated on Easter in 1813. Although the calamities of the theater could be resolved and the dismissals withdrawn, Josephine Schultz-Killitschky left Breslau after performing for the last time on April 17, 1813 (Good Friday).

In 1813 she was appointed first singer at the Royal Opera in Berlin . There she played the title role at the Berlin premiere of Beethoven's Fidelio on October 11, 1815. Among the audience of this performance, directed by Bernhard Anselm Weber , was the poet Clemens Brentano , who remarked in his review that she had "sung the role with great passion", but at the same time regretted that only "the admirers of the eccentric Bethoven" [! ] attended the performance. From other quarters, too, “their excellent and indestructible means” were praised, “their solid school, their brilliant skill and generally their thorough musical education”. She received special support when Gaspare Spontini was appointed General Music Director in Berlin in 1820 . Now she has become the preferred singer for the great dramatic opera roles. During her engagement in Berlin she made guest appearances “with great applause” in Kassel , Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig .

In 1831 she was dismissed for health reasons at her own request, received a pension of 1000 Reichstalers and withdrew into private life. Decisive for the resignation were expressions of displeasure from the audience at a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni , in which she sang the role of Donna Anna alongside the prima donna Henriette Sontag ( Donna Elvira ) .

She later lived in Freiburg im Breisgau, most recently at Wilhelmstrasse 26a there. When she died there on January 1, 1880, her age was stated as 84 on the death certificate, as well as in the bequest files. The information might be wrong, however, because then she would have only been around 13 years old when she made her debut (1808).

Opera repertoire (if documented)

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family

She had two children from her marriage to Justice Councilor Karl Ludewig Schultz in 1812. Her daughter Hedwig Schultz (1815-1845) also became a successful singer. She also had a son, Carl Friedrich Schultz (born February 12, 1817 Berlin), who shot and killed Rudolph Langerhans, a trainee lawyer at the Court of Appeal, in a duel on May 29, 1837 - a case that received wide attention in the press at the time. In 1820 the Schultz family lived in Berlin at Kronenstrasse 10.

Josephine Schultz-Killitschky's brother Rudolph Killitschgy (* 1797 in Vienna; † January 6, 1851 in Berlin) came to Berlin around 1810, was trained as a pianist by Ludwig Berger and was a piano teacher at the Royal Institute for Church Music from 1838 until his death .

Her sister Barbara Killitschky (* 1776) had been married to the violinist and Beethoven friend Ignaz Schuppanzigh since May 7, 1807 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f C. Höslinger:  Schulz, Josefine (Maria Josepha); born Killitzky, stage name Schulz (e) -Kil (l) itschgy (1791–1880), singer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 348.
  2. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , p. 668.
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Reichardt: Familiar letters written on a trip to Vienna and the Austrian states at the end of 1808 and at the beginning of 1809 . Vol. 1, Amsterdam 1810, p. 256.
  4. ^ General musical newspaper . Volume 1, Leipzig 1809, Sp. 268. ( books.google.de )
  5. ^ A b Maximilian Schlesinger: History of the Breslau Theater . Berlin 1898, p. 126 ff. ( Digitized version )
  6. ^ Maximilian Schlesinger: History of the Breslau Theater . Berlin 1898, p. 130 ( digitized version)
  7. ↑ C. [lemens] B. [rentano], First Presentation of Fidelio von Bethoven [!], In: Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schehrten Dinge , No. 124 of October 17, 1815
  8. ^ A b Karl Theodor von Küstner, Gustav Schauer: Album des Königl. Acting and the Royal. Berlin Opera ... for the period from 1796 to 1851 , Berlin 1858, p. 53 f. books.google.de
  9. ↑ Ferdinand Simon Gassner (ed.): Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst: new hand edition in one volume; based on the larger work . Stuttgart 1849. ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ a b Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon . Volume 4, Munich 2003, p. 4294 f. ( books.google.de )
  11. ^ Freiburg im Breisgau, city archives, death register (entry 2/1880) and probate file H 13228.
  12. ^ Karl Theodor von Küstner, Gustav Schauer: Album des Königl. Acting and the Royal. Berlin Opera ... for the period from 1796 to 1851 , Berlin 1858, pp. 53f., Books.google.de
  13. ↑ Carl Freiherr von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present . Berlin 1861, p. 537, books.google.de
  14. ↑ Schultz, L. In: Allgemeiner Wohnungsanzeiger für Berlin, Charlottenburg and Umgebung , 1820, p. 398.
  15. ^ Hermann Mendel (Ed.): Musical Conversations Lexicon . Vol. 6, Berlin 1876, p. 45 f. ( Digitized version )
  16. ↑ Harry Peter Clive: Beethoven and his world: a biographical dictionary . Oxford 2001, p. 331. ( books.google.de )
  17. ↑ Michael Lorenz : Four more months for Ignaz Schuppanzigh
personal data
SURNAME Schultz-Killitschky, Josephine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulz, Josephine; Schultz, Josephine; Schulze, Josephine; Killitschky, Maria Josepha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna-Josefstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1880
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau