Leopoldine Tuczek
Leopoldine Margarethe Tuczek (born November 11, 1821 in Vienna , † October 20, 1883 in Baden near Vienna) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano / coloratura soprano ).
Life
Leopoldine Tuczek was the daughter of the composer and music teacher Franz Tuczek (1782–1850). She studied at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna from 1829 to 1834 and made her debut on August 7, 1836 at the Kärntnertor Theater in Joseph Weigl's opera Nachtigall und Rabe . In 1841 she made a guest appearance at the Royal Opera in Berlin , where she was subsequently engaged until 1861.
She took part in the world premiere of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Ein Feldlager in Schlesien on December 7, 1844, and embodied the Vielka. At the world premiere of Otto Nicolai's opera Die Lustigen Frauen von Windsor on March 9, 1849, she sang Frau Fluth. As a concert singer she emerged with works by Carl Loewe , who dedicated the ballad Des Glockentürmers Töchterlein op. 112a to her.
In 1850 she married the Prussian chamber musician Herrenburg in Berlin.
family
Her brother Philipp Tuczek (* 1825) was a composer and violinist in the Berlin court orchestra. Her niece Felicia Tuczek (1849–1905) was a student of Clara Schumann and emerged as a pianist and composer. Her niece Clara Tuczek (1854-1919) became known as a concert singer and in 1881 married the composer Max Bruch .
literature
- Album of the Royal. Acting and the Royal. Berlin Opera , Berlin 1858, p. 93f. (Digitized version)
- Carl von Ledebur : Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's from the oldest times to the present . Ludwig Rauh, Berlin 1861, p. 609 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10931847-2 ( full text in the Google book search).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Tuczek, Leopoldine . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 48th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1883, pp. 73–76 ( digitized version ).
- Leopoldine Tuczek. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 290.
Web links
- Leopoldine Tuczek at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Loewes Werke , ed. by Max Runze, Volume 10, P. XI (digitized version)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tuczek, Leopoldine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tuczek, Leopoldine Margarethe (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (soprano / coloratura soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1883 |
| Place of death | Baden near Vienna |