Margrit Conrad
Margrit Conrad (born September 21, 1918 in Lucerne ; † August 2, 2005 in Baden , canton Aargau ) was an internationally active Swiss contralto .
Life
She was born as Margrit Amberg. She received her first singing lessons from Lucia Corridori . On her advice, at the age of twenty-two, she took part in the Geneva Singing Competition and won a prize.
After her marriage to the lawyer Peter Conrad, she lived in Baden. Her husband made it possible for her to study at the Conservatory in Zurich with Ria Ginster .
Margrit Conrad developed a rich concert activity in all major cities in Switzerland, as well as at the Lucerne Music Festival, today the Lucerne Festival and at the Schaffhausen Bach Festival . She also had many appearances abroad, for example in Lisbon , Madrid , Vienna , Dresden , Paris , Berlin , Salzburg .
Margrit Conrad devoted herself a. a. Works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Friedrich Händel , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Anton Bruckner , Antonín Dvořák , Gustav Mahler , Arthur Honegger , Othmar Schoeck , Willy Burkhard and Igor Stravinsky .
She worked with conductors such as Ernest Ansermet , Rafael Kubelík , Eugen Jochum , Ferdinand Leitner and soloists such as Gundula Janowitz , Maria Stader , Ursula Buckel , Ernst Häfliger , Kurt Widmer and Jakob Stämpfli .
Margrit Conrad died in Baden at the age of 86.
literature
- Baden New Year's Papers 1994, Volume 69
- Large Singer Lexicon (KJ Kutsch & Leo Riemens ), Volume 1, 4th edition, Saur-Verlag Munich 2003, pp. 888-889
Web links
- Margrit Conrad at Bach Cantatas (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Conrad, Margrit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amberg, Margrit (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss singer (alto) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 2005 |
| Place of death | Baden , Canton of Aargau |