Margarete Klose

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Margarete Klose (actually Frida Klose ; born August 6, 1899 in Berlin † December 14, 1968 , ibid) was a German opera singer ( alto ).

Life

Memorial plaque on the building at Ziegelstrasse 12 in Berlin-Mitte

Margarete Klose lost her father at an early age and therefore initially worked as a secretary. A colleague arranged for her to audition at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory , where she received a musical training from 1920 in a six-year course, among others with Max Marschalk (1863-1940).

She made her stage debut in 1926 at the Ulm Theater in a supporting role in the operetta Countess Mariza . Later she got the main role of Azucena in Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore . Over the next three years Margarete Klose developed a large repertoire in Ulm and Kassel . In 1928 she married the director and singing teacher Walter Bültemann (1879–1949), whom she had known since working in Ulm. The next stage in her career was the Mannheim National Theater , where she was engaged from 1929 to 1931.

In Berlin she was from 1931 to 1949 and then again from 1955 to 1961 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden , and in between from 1949 to 1955 at the Städtische Oper . She has made regular guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera , the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, the Milan Scala , the Saxon State Opera in Dresden , the National Theater in Munich , the Hamburg State Opera , the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels San Francisco and Los Angeles.

From 1935 she gave regular recitals. In 1935 the singer appeared at the Wagner Festival in the Sopot Forest Opera. From 1936 to 1942 she was a permanent guest at the Bayreuth Festival , where she sang great alto roles, especially Brangäne in the 1938 and 1939 Tietjen production of Tristan und Isolde , with which she was identified. The singer was heard at the Salzburg Festival in 1949 and 1955.

In 1946 she sang at the side of her friend, the soprano Frida Leider , in her farewell concert. In 1949 she synchronized the actress Elsa Wagner with her singing in the DEFA film Figaro's Wedding . In 1961 Margarethe Klose retired from the stage and limited herself to teaching. In summer she regularly gave master classes at the Salzburg Mozarteum .

Grave of Margarete Klose in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Margarete Klose died on December 14, 1968 in Berlin as a result of a stroke. Her grave is in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: I-Ur-8). She rests there next to her husband Walter Bültemann, who died in 1949.

meaning

In the 1930s and 1940s, Klose was considered an important German contralto, especially as a Wagner interpreter, she was also internationally known. She also sang Verdi and Richard Strauss and was a sought-after oratorio and song singer. Especially in the early years of her career, she also took part in performances of modern works (including world premieres of works by Hans Pfitzner and Werner Egk ).

She worked with well-known conductors of her time and was e.g. Appreciated, for example, by Erich Kleiber , Leo Blech and above all by Wilhelm Furtwängler , who still used them in 1954 for recordings (Die Walküre).

Repertoire (selection)

Audio documents

After the first recordings for Pathé in 1929, recordings were made for Electrola from 1932 to 1954 and for the Deutsche Grammophon Society from 1941 to 1955 . The last recordings from 1964 and 1965 were published on Ariola Eurodisc GmbH . In addition, radio and live recordings by Margarete Klose were released on CD.

literature

  • Margarete Klose: Thirty years of Berlin opera. In: Josef Müller-Marein, Hannes Reinhardt: The musical self-portrait. Nannen, Hamburg 1963.
  • Jakob Vieten: Margarete Klose. [Discography, pictures, documents]. In: Voices that went around the world. Issue 74. Münster 2003.

Web links

Commons : Margarete Klose  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margarete Klose † . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Monday, December 16, 1968. p. 14. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 489.

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to other information, also year of birth 1902
personal data
SURNAME Klose, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klose, Frida (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (alto)
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1968
Place of death Berlin