Maria Margarethe Danzi

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Maria Margarethe Danzi-Marchand or Danzi , b. Marchand (* 1768 in Frankfurt am Main or Mannheim ; † June 11, 1800 in Munich ) was a German soprano and composer.

Life

The place of birth is sometimes also given as Mannheim, as the parents' family lived there from 1775 and were on a tour of the theater troupe in Frankfurt at the time Margaret was born. The information with the place of birth Munich in various encyclopedias is incorrect.

Margarethes father Theobald Hilarius Marchand had been appointed by Elector Karl Theodor as the first director of the newly founded National Theater Mannheim . Her mother Magdalena Brochard was a stage actress and ballet dancer and was engaged as a soubrette in her husband's theater troupe .

Marchand caused a stir at a very young age as a piano virtuoso as well as a singer. In 1787, at the age of 12, she made her debut at the Mannheim court theater in the title role of "The Noble Boy" by Johann Jakob Engel . In Munich Margarethe Danzi received music lessons from her future sister-in-law Franziska Lebrun from 1778 to 1782 . From 1782 to 1784 she was a student of Leopold Mozart in Salzburg . She was one of the few female composers of the time in whom the musical role of women mostly had to be limited to singing. Marchand had her first appearances at the Munich Court Theater (→ Cuvilliés Theater ) in 1785 in supporting roles before she made her debut there on April 26, 1786 as a court singer.

In 1790 she married the composer and conductor Franz Danzi , with whom she made major guest tours in Europe as the prima donna of the theater company Domenico Guardasonis and gained international reputation. From 1796 Margarethe was also a celebrated prima donna at the Munich court theater. On the night of June 10th to 11th, 1800 Margarethe Danzi died of the consequences of a lung disease.

While she was widely recognized as an opera singer with an extensive repertoire of roles, her compositions, like those of her sister-in-law Franziska Lebrun, rarely found publishers during her lifetime and were mostly only published later.

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  1. ↑ Nicole K. Strohmann: Margarethe Danzi ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 1, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Mannheim City Library: Female Composers ( Memento from June 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Muenchen.de: Street renaming in 2006 (as of February 2007)
personal data
SURNAME Danzi, Maria Margarethe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danzi-Marchand, Maria Margarethe (full name); Marchand, Maria Margarethe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soprano and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main or Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1800
Place of death Munich