Louise Bergauer

Louise Bergauer (born October 19, 1825 in Prague , † after 1866) was an opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Bergauer, the daughter of a senior official of the Oberstburggräflichen Güter at the time, studied at the Prague Conservatory and appeared on May 22, 1844 as "Mathilde" in Tell for the first time at the Deutsches Landestheater. This debut was followed by “Pamina” and “Irene” ( Belisarius ).

There she heard the director Franz Pokorny , who was so pleased with the voice of the young soprano that he immediately engaged her for the Theater an der Wien . Although the musically refined, talented art disciple enjoyed extensive applause there too, the turmoil of 1848 ended her engagement and she returned to Prague.

There she was immediately committed to the Estates Theater and achieved great, uniform success in both German and Czech performances. However, the artist left the stage completely when her director Johann Hoffmann wanted to ask him to also sing in the Czech opera in the arena.

From then on she worked as a concert singer, toured Germany, France and Belgium (was also appointed chamber singer of the Princess of Capua-Bourbon ) and returned home every year rich in honors and awards.

It was not until November 19, 1861, when she met the university professor Dr. Having married Josef Pilz , she reappeared on the stage - even if only in a private theater in the Count's Schlick Palace - and gave the Prague residents many opportunities to enjoy her wonderful voice again. After the death of her husband, the artist retired to Vienna. Her daughter Susanne Pilz , one of the most talented and popular pianists at the Austrian residency, seems to have inherited her significant musical talent .

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 82, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wedding book Prague-St. Veit (Kostel sv. Víta), tom. VII, fol. 23. Accessed December 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Baptismal register Prague-St. Veit (Kostel sv. Víta), tom. IX, fol. 35. Retrieved December 1, 2019 . 

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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