Louise Müller (singer, 1784)

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Louise Karolina Müller , née Ludovika Müller (* around 1784 in Frankfurt am Main ; † after 1837 ) was a German-Austrian actress and opera singer ( soprano ). She usually appeared in the field of soubrette and sang the role of Marzelline at the world premiere of Beethoven's opera Fidelio on November 20, 1805.

Life

Louise Müller was the daughter of the famous actress Ludovica Müller born. Spit (1763-1837).

She made her debut on July 10, 1798 at the Kärntnertor Theater in Vienna as “Basia” (Barbarina) in the German-language premiere of Mozart's opera Die Hochzeit des Figaro . In the following year she embodied “child roles” there, her mother “tender roles”. This information suggests that she was born around 1784.

Together with her mother, she went to the Theater an der Wien in the spring of 1803 , where she took part in the world premiere of Beethoven's oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives op. 85 on April 5, 1803 . In the same concert Beethoven premiered his Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 and the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37.

Her mother made her debut at the Theater an der Wien on June 4, 1803 as Cora in the tragedy Die Spanier in Peru or Rollas Tod von August von Kotzebue . Louise Müller appeared for the first time on June 15, 1803 as Caroline ("Flower Girl on the Island") in the Singspiel Die Insel der Liebe by Vicente Martín y Soler in the German translation by Matthäus Stegmayer . The notice contains the note: “Demoiselle Müller, a new member of this society, will have the honor of appearing in the role shown above for the first time today.” In the years that followed, she performed numerous soubrette roles , for example in Antonio Salieri's singspiel Die Neger , which was released on It was premiered on November 10, 1804.

On April 7, 1805 she performed at the Theater an der Wien in a concert by the violinist Franz Clement with an aria by Sebastiano Nasolini . The Viennese correspondent of the Leipziger Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung writes that she would meanwhile "have developed into a tasteful, very good singer, if she was not supported by a very excellent voice." In the same concert Beethoven conducted his Symphony No. 3 op. 55, the Eroica .

Her best-known role was the Marzelline in Beethoven's opera Fidelio , which she embodied both at the premiere of the first version on November 20, 1805 and at the premiere of the second version on March 29, 1806. It is noteworthy that on March 26, 1806, she took over the title role in a private performance of Ferdinando Paër's opera Leonora in the palace of Prince Joseph Lobkowitz . This can be found in a diary note made by Count Karl von Zinzendorf , who also describes her as the lover of the Russian Prince Peter Tufiakin (1769–1845).

The writer Ignaz Franz Castelli frequented her around 1807 and said:

“Back then there was a good actress and singer at Theater an der Wien; Fraulein Müller, as a soubrette it was excellent. I had access to the house, and the lady’s mother, who played mothers in the drama but poorly, often invited me to dinner and gave me sweet looks; but I was a chaste Joseph because Madame Müller was not as charming as Putiphar, and so I never left my coat there. The daughter would have been entirely to my liking, and I also arranged a French comedy for her, which was given under her name under the title: "Das Liebhabertheater" ; but it was not fruitful for me because she was in love with a Russian prince. "

The aforementioned comedy Das Liebhabertheater - the translation of a play by Emmanuel Dupaty  - was premiered on April 22, 1807. "Louise Müller" is actually given as the author. In the review of the Wiener Theater-Zeitung it says:

“The popular Louise Müller, a skilled actress and beautiful singer, tried to keep the public in love as a poet as well. She succeeded ... Demoiselle Müller was delighted, especially with her bright singing: "I was when I woke up" etc. from the sacrificial feast , she played the role with gentle grace, and was evoked at the end, for which she humbly and appropriately thanked. and after she had edited it, she ascribed the merits of the piece to the author, and asked to forgive the mistakes she made as a translator. "

Castelli writes about her artistic skills:

“Miss Müller was a lovely actress and good singer, especially in the cheerful field. She knew how to endow her soubrette roles with a decency so that she could take everything for herself, but she also knew how to fill her place with honor in more serious roles. "

Another of her great successes was Marianne in Soliman II by Franz Xaver Süßmayr , which she sang for the first time on September 5, 1807 at the premiere of the new production of the opera in the Theater an der Wien. In an overview of the current state of musical art in Vienna in 1808, it says about Louise Müller:

"Mlle. Müller, also from the Vienna Theater, was able to give her voice, which was uncertain at first, through a laudable diligence, how to give several positions. She sings with ease, and would sing with taste, if she didn't let herself be carried away sometimes by the raging fury of the ornamentation. "

She left Vienna on May 31, 1808 and arrived in Munich with Prince Tufiakin on June 3 . She then worked for several years at the Imperial German Court Theater in St. Petersburg .

As the Wiener Theater-Zeitung reported, “Demoiselle Louise Müller” reappeared for the first meal on January 9, 1816 “after a seven-year absence, and made her debut in the role of Marianne, which she performed here in 1807 as the opera on 5. The Vienna correspondent for the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung writes about the same idea that her voice has “suffered a lot and has almost completely disappeared”. On March 31, 1817, she gave her farewell performance.

From April 1817 to November 1827 and from January 1831 to January 1834 she was allegedly engaged again at the German theater in St. Petersburg.

There she is said to have married a musician named Bender, which is not mentioned in the contemporary theater and music journals.

Ludovica Müller spit

The mother Ludovica Müller-Spieß, who is sometimes confused with her daughter in literature, was born in Wetzlar around 1763 . She worked at the Theater an der Wien until 1806 and later at the Leopoldstädter Theater . Most recently she lived “in Leopoldstadt No. 122”, where she died of gout on July 6, 1837 at the age of 74. The entry on her death describes her as "chosen actress and benefactress of A J. Wittor (?), Born in Wetzlar".

literature

  • Matthäus Voll: Chronological index of all plays, German and Italian operas, pantomimes and ballets, which from April 1794 until then 1807, namely for a full 13 years both in the kk court theaters and in the kk privil. Playhouses, previously on the Wieden, now on the Vienna and Leopoldstadt have been performed , Vienna 1807
  • Catalog of the portrait collection of the kuk General-Intendanz of the kk Hoftheater. At the same time a biographical guide in the field of theater and music. Second division. Group IV. Wiener Hoftheater , Vienna 1892, p. 347
  • Alexander Wheelock Thayer : Ludwig van Beethoven's life , edited in German by Hermann Deiters . 3. Edition. Leipzig 1922, Volume 2, pp. 481f., 487, 505, 508
  • Willy Hess , Das Fidelio-Buch , Winterthur 1986
  • Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 4th edition. Munich 2003, Volume 5, p. 3250
  • Short biography. books.google.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens (2003), p. 3250, she is said to have been born “around 1779” in Frankfurt am Main. In the birth books of the Institute for Urban History in Frankfurt am Main, however, the birth in the period 1779 to 1782 cannot be traced. Both Protestant and Catholic births and baptisms are recorded there.
  2. ^ Michael Jahn : The Viennese Court Opera from 1794 to 1810. Music and dance in the Burg- and Kärnthnerthortheater . Vienna 2011, pp. 318 and 658 (illustration of the notice).
  3. ^ Theater calendar for the year 1799 . Ettinger, Gotha n.d., p. 253 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Ignaz Franz Castelli: Memoirs of my life. Found and felt, experienced and strived for , ed. by Josef Bindtner. Volume 1. Georg Müller, Munich 1914, p. 110 - Bindtner cites unpublished records by Joseph Sonnleithner as the source .
  5. ^ Vienna, Theater Museum, collection of notice papers; see. also Voll (1807), p. 166
  6. ↑ Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung , Vol. 7, No. 31 of May 1, 1805, Col. 501 ( digitized version )
  7. ^ Vienna, Austrian State Archives , Cabinet Archives , Zinzendorf Diaries, Volume 51 (1806), fol. 54v (French); German translation by Walther Brauneis , Ludwig van Beethoven in the mirror of the diaries of Count Karl von Zinzendorf. In: Mitteilungsblatt Wiener Beethoven-Gesellschaft , No. 3/1980, pp. 9–11
  8. ^ Ignaz Franz Castelli: Memoirs of my life , Volume 1, Vienna / Prague 1861, p. 116
  9. ^ Anton Bauer: 150 years of Theater an der Wien . Vienna 1952, p. 282
  10. ↑ Theater-Zeitung , Vienna, Vol. 2, No. 18 of May 23, 1807, p. 89 f. (Digitized version)
  11. ↑ Ignaz Franz Castelli: Memoirs of my life . Volume 1. Vienna / Prague 1861, p. 245 books.google.de
  12. ↑ Overview of the current state of musical art in Vienna. (Decision). In: Vaterländische Blätter , Vol. 1, No. 7 of May 31, 1808, pp. 49–54, here p. 50 ( digitized version )
  13. ^ August Wilhelm Iffland : Almanach fürs Theater 1809 , p. 197, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  14. ↑ Baierische National-Zeitung , Munich, No. 134 of June 7, 1808, p. 546: "foreigner advertisement. Arrived June 3rd. [...] In the black Adler: Tufiakin, Russian Kaiserl. Chamberlain, etc. Mlle. Müller, first theater singer from Vienna, with a suite ”. archive.org
  15. ^ August Wilhelm Iffland : Almanach fürs Theater 1809 , p. 152, here p. 155, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  16. ^ Theater-Zeitung , Vienna, Vol. 9, No. 6 of January 20, 1816, p. 21 (digitized version)
  17. ↑ Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung , Vol. 18, No. 8 of February 21, 1816, Col. 117, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  18. ↑ Ignaz Franz Castelli, Memoirs of my Life. Found and felt, experienced and strived for , ed. by Josef Bindtner, Volume 1, Munich: Georg Müller 1914, p. 110 - Bindtner gives no source for her alleged marriage.
  19. ^ Wiener Zeitung , No. 155 of July 10, 1837, p. 898 (digitized version)
  20. ↑ Vienna, Parish St. Leopold , death record 1835–1839, p. 120 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Louise Karolina (full name); Müller, Ludovika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian actress and opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH after 1837