Katharina Lang
Katharina Maria Franziska Lang ( November 1774 in Mannheim - May 4, 1803 in Munich ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ), pianist , composer and stage actress .
Life
She was the daughter of court musician Franz Joseph Lang (1751–1835) and Franziska Lang (nee Stamitz, 1746–1800) and was educated by her mother. In 1778 she came to Munich with her father, where she received piano training from Andreas Streicher , who later dedicated the symphony from the opera Castor and Pollux to her, as well as singing lessons from the singer and teacher Dorothea Wendling . In 1789 she moved to Italy, where she continued her vocal training with Bacherotti in Padua. She first appeared publicly on a stage in Mantua . Together with Girolamo Crescentini she sang in the piece La clemenza di Tito at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice or appeared with Luigi Lodovico Marchesi in Alessandro nell'Indie in Bergamo and in Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's Le Déserteur in Vicenza .
As a result of a loss of voice, she returned to Munich in 1795 because she had to end her singing career. There she turned to the art of acting and accepted engagements at the court theater in Munich. There she was artistically active in the plays Minna von Barnhelm and Emilia Galotti until her death in 1803.
Since 1796 she was married to the Munich court actor Franz Anton Zuccarini (1755-1823) and appeared on the stage as Mme Zuccarini-Lang. Lang also worked as a pianist and composer and died at the young age of 29. Her son was the botanist Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797–1848).
literature
- Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 6: Kraatz – Menges. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-23160-1 .
- Lang, Katharina . In: Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 3rd, exp. Edition. Saur, Munich 1997, volume 3.
- Wilhelm Kosch , Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: German Theater Lexicon. Volume 38: Zedler – Zysset. De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, p. 3868 ( excerpt - Google ).
Web links
- Katharina Lang in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Katharina Lang at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Paul Legband : Munich stage and literature in the eighteenth century. In: Oberbayerisches Archiv 51, 1904, p. 248.
- ^ Franz Joseph Lang on Personen.digitale-sammlungen.de
- ^ Franziska Lang in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- ↑ Christoph Öhm-Kühnle: He knows how to make every note sing. P. 157 and p. 253.
- ^ Anton Zuccarini in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- ^ Hermann Arthur Lier: Zuccarini, Franz Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 471.
- ↑ Lang, Katharine; 1773-1803; on Personen.digitale-sammlungen.de
- ↑ Adolf von Schaden (Ed.) Scholars Munich in 1834. Munich 1834, p. 153 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de )
- ↑ Zuccarini, Joseph Gerhard . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . tape 10 : Thies-Zymalkowski. . KG Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096381-6 , p. 890 ( books.google.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lang, Katharina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lang, Katherine; Lang, Catharine; Lang, Katharina Maria Francisca; Lang, Maria Catharina Franzisca (full name); Zuccarini, Katharina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1803 |
| Place of death | Munich |