Julie Eichberg

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Julie Eichberg (born March 7, 1847 in Stuttgart , † July 16, 1906 in Wildbad ) was a German singer.

Life

Julie Eichberg was the fourth daughter of the cantor Moritz Eichberg and his wife Eleonore. She studied from the age of ten at the Stuttgart Conservatory and two years later was one of the two candidates selected for training as an opera singer at the drama school. When her sister Bertha died of typhus at the age of almost twenty , Julie Eichberg's musical training was interrupted.

In 1864 she traveled to America via Liverpool, where she first lived with her older sister Pauline in Baltimore and took part in musical life with her . In 1866 she married the violinist and conductor Jacob Rosewald . He had also studied in Stuttgart and was perhaps known to her from that time. He had Bavarian ancestors. The couple lived at times in a pension, at times also in the home of the youngest Eichberg sister Antonie, who was married to the jeweler David Oppenheimer.

In 1870 Julie Eichberg returned to Europe for some time. She completed her training with Amalie Marongelli , Maria von Marra and Pauline Viardot-Garcia . In 1872 she accompanied Franz Abt on his American tour. From 1875 she made a career as a prima donna with the Kellogg Opera Company , initially against the resistance of her husband . On a European tour in 1877 she performed in Nuremberg , Mainz , Stuttgart, Cologne , Amsterdam , Berlin and Dresden . From 1880 she was the prima donna of the Abbott Company; at the same time her husband was hired as a conductor. On the travels of the troops there were repeated scenes of jealousy; Jacob Rosewald was once beaten down by bass John Gilbert because he had criticized the fact that he sang so loudly that the soprano was no longer effective.

From 1884 Julie Eichberg and her husband lived permanently in San Francisco . She worked as a singing teacher and provided after the death of lead singer Max Wolff 1884-1893, the services of a cantor in Temple Emanu-El . That a woman took over the work of a chasan had not happened before in the USA and was not repeated until 1955 with Betty Robbins. She lost her husband on October 25, 1895: Jacob Rosewald died of a heart attack.

Julie Eichberg taught at Mills College Conservatory of Music from 1894 to 1897 , after which she retired into private life for health reasons. From 1898 she spent most of the years traveling. During the devastating earthquake of 1906 , which also destroyed her home in San Francisco, she was not in the USA, but on a spa stay in Bad Wildbad in the Black Forest. Thinking of being financially ruined by the loss of her home, she changed her last will and decided to go back to working as a singing teacher. But that never happened: in July 1906 she was suddenly paralyzed and died three days later.

She was cremated and her ashes were later interred in the Home of Peace Cemetery in San Francisco.

After her death, the generous, but no longer valid will, in which she had donated donations to numerous charitable institutions, was prematurely made public. The pledges of funds later had to be withdrawn when the change in her will was known.

Julie Eichberg's repertoire included 125 operas.

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  1. ↑ founded by the singer Clara Louise Kellogg (1842-1916)
  2. ↑ a b c Judith S. Pinnolis, “Cantor Soprano” Julie Rosewald: The Musical Career of a Jewish American “New Woman” , American Jewish Archives Journal (PDF; 2.3 MB)
  3. ↑ a b life data on alemannia-judaica.de (PDF; 43 kB)
  4. ↑ a b life data on jewishencyclopedia.com
personal data
SURNAME Eichberg, Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichberg, Julia; Eichberg Rosewald, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1906
Place of death Wildbad