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Margarita Alexandrowna Eichenwald ( Russian Маргарита Александровна Эйхенвальд ; * 1866 in Moscow , † 1957 in the USA ) was a Russian- US-American opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

Eichenwald's father, Alexander Fyodorowitsch Eichenwald, was a photographer with a studio in Moscow's Petrowski Passage, who aimed at artistic photography . The mother Ida Ivanovna Eichenwald, born Papendick, was a harpist and professor at the Moscow Conservatory .

From 1884 to 1890 Eichenwald studied singing at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of E. Tagliabue. From 1888 she performed in concerts . In 1889 she made her debut as Papagena at the Bolshoi Theater , where she sang until 1901. One of her many roles was Tatiana in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin . From 1900 to 1910 she appeared in Savva Ivanovich Mamontov's Moscow Private Russian Opera . She then sang in the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater . She also performed in the provinces, for example in Tbilisi , Nizhny Novgorod (1894), Kazan (1894, 1911) and in the USA.

Eichenwald was the first Marja in Anton Stepanowitsch Arenski's Dream on the Volga in 1890 (after Alexander Nikolajewitsch Ostrowski's comedy ) and in 1892 the first Stefano in Antoine Simons Rolla . Eichenwald was highly valued by Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow , Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Anton Stepanowitsch Arensky. In 1892 Arensky dedicated the romance Lied des Fischleins to her based on verses by Mikhail Jurjewitsch Lermontow . In symphony concerts she took over the solo part in Ludwig van Beethoven's Mass in C major (1893). In chamber concerts she sang romances by Alexander Tichonowitsch Gretschaninow and Reinhold Moritzewitsch Glière . She also taught at the Moscow Drama School in Music.

After the October Revolution Eichenwald emigrated and came to New York in 1925 . Her marriage to the bassist Stepan Evtropyevich Tresvinsky had ended earlier.

Eichenwald had three siblings. Alexander was a physicist , Nadezhda was a harpist and singer , and Anton was a composer .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Favia-Artsay, Aida: Margaret Eichenwald: A Remembrance of the Bolshoi's Unforgettable Snegurochka . In: The Opera Quarterly . tape 8 , no. 4 , 1991, pp. 65 ( oup.com [PDF; accessed November 17, 2018]).
2. ↑ Пружанский А. М .: Эйхенвальд Маргарита Александровна . In: Отечественные певцы. 1750–1917: Словарь . 2nd Edition. Moscow 2008.
3. ↑ Александр Федорович Эйхенвальд (accessed November 17, 2018).
4. ↑ European instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries: Eichenwald, Eichenwald-Papendiek, Papendick-Eichenwald, Ida Iwanowna Ivanovna (accessed on November 14, 2018).
5. ^ Eichenwald, Margarita Alexandrovna - Cabinet Photo in Eugene Onegin (accessed November 17, 2018).