Margarete Luise Schick

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Margarete Luise Schick, bust of Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann , 1809, formerly Berlin, Theater Museum

Margarete Luise Schick , also Margharete Luise Schick , b. Margarete Luise Hamel (born April 26, 1773 in Mainz , † April 29, 1810 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

She was the daughter of the bassoonist Johann Nepomuk Hamel (1728–1792), who was in the service of the Elector of Mainz, Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal . Her mother was Juliana Keller (born 1745).

Her father and the singer and singing teacher Franziska Hellmuth encouraged her natural singing abilities at an early age, so that at the age of 10 she went to Würzburg to take lessons with the then famous Kapellmeister and singing teacher Stephani . Margarete stayed at this school for five years, the costs of which had been paid for by the elector, and made her debut in her native town in 1788 under the direction of Vincenzo Righini , who headed the electoral orchestra from 1788 to 1793.

During the musical accompaniment of the coronation of Emperor Leopold II in Frankfurt am Main in 1790 , she appeared as a singer under the direction of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . In 1791 she married Ernst Johann Christoph Schick (born 1756 in Haag, died December 10, 1815 in Berlin), the first violinist of the Electoral Mainz chapel, who also emerged as a composer.

After a guest performance in Hamburg , she received an engagement at the Royal Opera Berlin in 1793 . Margarete Hamel-Schick celebrated triumphs with her appearances in Mozart and Gluck operas and was considered one of the most important German-speaking singers of her time.

Her most important roles were: 1797 “Myrrha” (Winter Festival of Sacrifice ), “Antigone” (Sacchinis Oedipus ), 1799 “Dido” ( Piccinni ), 1801 “Vitellia” (Mozart's Titus), 1802 “Countess” (Mozart's Figaro ), 1805 "Armida" by Gluck, 1808 "Eurydice", "Malvina" (Méhuls Uthal ). She aroused particular interest as a master of the tragic subject in the roles of "Hero" ( monodrama from 1800) and "Sulmalle" ( duodrama from 1802), written for her by Bernhard Anselm Weber .

During the rehearsals at Iphigénie en Aulide in November 1809, she fell seriously ill. The cause of the illness was presumably a severe cold, which required medical treatment, but apparently was not properly cured. In spring 1810 she fell ill again when she was rehearsing Righini's Te Deum in the unheated Berlin cathedral . It was again a serious illness, from which she seemed to be recovering this time too, because she quickly resumed her activity. But only a few days later she suffered a breakthrough of the ascending cervical artery ( arteria cervicalis ascendens ) - probably as a result of the illness - and died completely unexpectedly in her husband's arms.

On May 3, she was solemnly buried in the old cathedral cemetery of St. Hedwig's parish in Liesenstrasse .

She became the mother of four children, three girls and her son Friedrich (born November 6, 1794; November 28, 1860). One of the girls died young. Her eldest daughter Julie (* around 1790) was also a singer and belonged to the Berlin Opera from 1807-1811. She married the district administrator Karl Friedrich Ludwig von Schaetzel (* 1794) and became the mother of the singer Pauline von Schätzel .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Konrad Levezow, Life and Art of Mrs. ML Schick, page 63 ff.
  2. ↑ Short biography of the father: Hamel, Johann Nepomuk. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Oscar Paul, Handlexikon der Tonkunst: L to Z, supplement. 2, p.394
  4. ^ Conrad von Levezow, Life and Art of Mrs. ML Schick, née Hamel , p.71

Remarks

  1. ^ According to Eisenberg on April 27th
personal data
SURNAME Schick, Margarete Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schick, Margharete Luise; Hamel, Margarete Luise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1810
Place of death Berlin