Margarethe Stockhausen

Margarethe Stockhausen

Margarethe Stockhausen (born March 29, 1803 in Guebwiller , † October 6, 1877 in Colmar ), also known as Madame Stockhausen , was an Alsatian soprano who was particularly famous in England for her Swiss songs.

Life

Madame Stockhausen was born as Margarethe Schmuck in Guebwiller, Alsace, her father was a notary. She took singing lessons from Gioseffo Catrufo in Paris . In Paris, she made friends with the Cologne harpist Franz Stockhausen, whom she married in 1822. After the birth of their son Julius, the family moved to London, where Margarethe had her musical breakthrough with Swiss songs. In 1828 she gave a concert in the Argyll Rooms , where she was accompanied on guitar by Matteo Carcassi . But she often performed together with her husband. Later she also sang songs and arias by famous composers such as Handel , Haydn and Mozart . She gave most of the concerts in England and Scotland, but she also appeared in Alsace, Switzerland , Germany and France .

In 1840 the family moved to Colmar, where Margarethe died on October 6, 1877. During this time she gave only a few concerts, mostly in the Colmar area.

family

Margarethe was married to the harpist Franz Stockhausen (1789–1868) and trained their six children in music, the most famous being the singer Julius Stockhausen (1826–1906) and his younger brother Franz Stockhausen (1839–1926), who was a pianist.

literature

• Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon, Volume 4. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 4546.
• J. Wirth: Julius Stockhausen. The singer of the German song. Englert and Schlosser, Frankfurt am Main 1927, pp. 1-46.

Web links

• Julius Stockhausen's dedication to his mother.
• Swiss song, which Carcassi set to music for M. Stockhausen for guitar: The lively Alpen Hirt. (Note that the Swiss-German and the English text are completely different.)