Magda of Dulong

Magda of Dulong. Photo from 1899.

Magda von Dulong , actually Meta von Dülong , née Meta Zahn , pseudonym Magda Lossen (born February 29, 1872 in Giebichenstein , † May 13, 1950 in Starnberg , Upper Bavaria ) was a German concert singer ( mezzo-soprano / alto ).

Life

She was the daughter of pastor D. Adolph Zahn and Pauline von der Heydt from Elberfeld . Dülong was a student of Anton Hromoda , Amalie Joachim and Elka Gerster . She made her debut in 1895 under the stage name Magda Lossen .

A year later, on August 8, 1896 in Stuttgart , she married the tenor and later professor and singing master Franz Henri von Dülong (born February 26, 1861 in Hamm , Westphalia ; † April 13, 1944 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ), formerly landlord on Harrersberg, District of Züllichau . The two twin sisters Ingeborg (1897–1935) and Irmela von Dülong (1897–1985), actress and reciter, come from this marriage. Since the marriage, Meta von Dülong performed under the name Magda von Dulong . She was divorced again before 1907 and was her second marriage to the entrepreneur and writer Robert Friedlaender-Prechtl .

Dülong owed her career in Germany and England mainly to appearances as a concert and lied singer as well as to joint appearances with her first husband Henri. Both together were considered the most virtuoso duet singers of their time. After the outbreak of the First World War , her work focused on the educational area.

A critic once took her as an example of bad singers who “often indulged in theatrics” , as she “closes her eyes dying at places of strong sensory stimulus and bears witness to the violence of her inner movement by convulsively folding her hands” .

literature

Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XXI, page 69, volume 108 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1995, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4
Dulong, Magda of. In: Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Page 793, Verlag Francke, 1987, ISBN 3317016388 or ISBN 9783317016384
Dulong, Magda von , in: Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Immortal Voices , page 190, Francke Verlag, 1975, ISBN 3772011454 and ISBN 9783772011450
Dulong, Magda of. In: Josef Seiling: Illustrated Tonkünstler Calendar. Biographical notes from all branches of musical creation with 730 portraits , G. Müller Verlag, 1909
Dulong, Magda of. In: Henry Saxe Wyndham, Geoffrey L'Epine: Who's who in music. A biographical record of contemporary musicians , page 299, Verlag I. Pitman & Sons, 1915

Web links

Magda von Dulong at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Entry in the guestbook at Schloss Neubeuen (March 1903) with a short biography (PDF file; 16 kB)
http://www.gaestebuecher-schloss-neubeuert.de/biografien/Dulong_Henri_und_Magda_von.pdf (with biography of the first husband too!)

Individual evidence

↑ The GHdA B XXI (1995) gives your first name with meta .
↑ Franz Henri of Dülong , born Henri Dulon, was the son of the royally Prussian secret Governing Wilhelm Dulon (1827-1895), who on 15 October 1884 in Baden-Baden in the Prussian nobility was raised called leadership "of Dülong" and the merchant's daughter Emma Overlach (1838–1911). Henri von Dülong had already married in his first marriage on October 10, 1889 in Lübeck Rosa Boy (born August 9, 1871 in Lübeck; † in Jülich ), from whom he had divorced in 1893. She was the daughter of the wholesale merchant Karl Boy and the writer Ida Ed. After his divorce from his second wife Meta (Magda), he married Hanne Ahrendts (born August 1, 1873 in Wernigerode ) on July 14, 1907 in Tegernsee (Upper Bavaria ), from whom he divorced in 1919 August 1919 in Berlin Alice Leven (born November 26, 1894 in Altona adElbe ; † in Denmark ). - Sources: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels -Adelslexikon Volume III, page 40, Volume 61 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, as well as Genealogical Manual of the Adels , Adelige Häuser B , Volume XXI, page 69 (1995).

↑ Biographical article on Robert Friedlaender-Prechtl. Accessed on November 21, 2010

↑ Edward F. Kravitt: The Song. Spiegel der Spätromantik , page 93, Georg Olms Verlag, 2004, ISBN 348712663X or ISBN 9783487126630 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Dulong, Magda of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dülong, meta from (real name); Zahn, Magda (maiden name); Lossen, Magda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German concert singer (mezzo-soprano / alto)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Giebichenstein
DATE OF DEATH	May 13, 1950
Place of death	Starnberg , Upper Bavaria

[1] The GHdA B XXI (1995) gives your first name with meta .

[2] Franz Henri of Dülong , born Henri Dulon, was the son of the royally Prussian secret Governing Wilhelm Dulon (1827-1895), who on 15 October 1884 in Baden-Baden in the Prussian nobility was raised called leadership "of Dülong" and the merchant's daughter Emma Overlach (1838–1911). Henri von Dülong had already married in his first marriage on October 10, 1889 in Lübeck Rosa Boy (born August 9, 1871 in Lübeck; † in Jülich ), from whom he had divorced in 1893. She was the daughter of the wholesale merchant Karl Boy and the writer Ida Ed. After his divorce from his second wife Meta (Magda), he married Hanne Ahrendts (born August 1, 1873 in Wernigerode ) on July 14, 1907 in Tegernsee (Upper Bavaria ), from whom he divorced in 1919 August 1919 in Berlin Alice Leven (born November 26, 1894 in Altona adElbe ; † in Denmark ). - Sources: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels -Adelslexikon Volume III, page 40, Volume 61 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, as well as Genealogical Manual of the Adels , Adelige Häuser B , Volume XXI, page 69 (1995).

[3] Biographical article on Robert Friedlaender-Prechtl. Accessed on November 21, 2010

[4] Edward F. Kravitt: The Song. Spiegel der Spätromantik , page 93, Georg Olms Verlag, 2004, ISBN 348712663X or ISBN 9783487126630 ( digitized version )