Marie Wilt

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Marie Wilt as Valentine in Meyerbeer's Huguenots (around 1879)
Marie Wilt
Marie Wilt's grave

Marie Wilt , née Marie Liebenthaler (born January 30, 1833 in Vienna ; † September 24, 1891 ibid) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Marie Liebenthaler, as she was called by birth name, was adopted by the painter Josef Tremier († September 24, 1891 in Vienna) and his wife as an orphan (the mother had died of the cholera that raged in Vienna in 1836 ). At a young age she received piano lessons and sang in smaller choirs, but her singing talent was considered to be insufficient. At the age of 19 she married the engineer Franz Wilt and thus had to fulfill the duties of a housewife. In the meantime, due to her husband's job, she lives in Dalmatia and has also become a mother, but she was always drawn to singing and initially continued her education as a self-taught . In order to escape the loneliness of this country and her monotonous housework, she finally returned to Vienna, where she initially survived a protracted sore throat. Then she worked energetically again on her dream of becoming an opera singer. She made contact with the director of the Vienna Singing Society, Johann von Herbeck , who gave her a few smaller solo parts in oratorios , but strongly recommended her to Josef Gänsbacher for further voice training . Now over 30 years old, she gave a vocal rehearsal for the soprano Désirée Artôt de Padilla , and she was absolutely encouraged to continue her career. With such motivation, Marie Wilt began a steep career in the following years. However, this devotion to the profession was detrimental to marriage and later led to divorce in 1878.

Finally she made her debut in Graz in 1865 with the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni and, due to her convincing success, immediately received her first engagement at the Covent Garden Opera in London . Despite a severe setback due to life-threatening coal gas poisoning, she recovered relatively quickly, and further international invitations followed, mainly to London, but also to almost all other renowned European opera houses. After returning to Vienna, she made her debut on March 8, 1867 at the Kärntnertortheater . Appointed chamber singer in 1869 , she was engaged at the kk Hof opera theater until 1878 . Here she took on the roles of "Leonore" in Verdi's opera The Troubadour , the Aida in his opera of the same name or the "Sulamith" from Karl Goldmark's opera The Queen of Saba (with Amalie Materna in the title role and Gustav Walter as Assad), the “Queen of the Night” from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and she was a sought-after soprano, especially at the most important world premieres of that time. She was also a celebrated star at the Schumann Festival in Bonn in 1873 in favor of a representative monument for the grave of Robert Schumann or at the Lower Rhine Music Festival in Aachen in the same year as well as at other representative missions. In the meantime, she was made an honorary member of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna in 1871 .

After her time in Vienna, she was initially engaged for two years at the Leipzig Opera House , where she impressed for one season, especially in the role of Brünnhilde from the Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner under the direction of Anton Seidl . This was followed by three years at the Frankfurt Opera House and other guest arrangements in Budapest and Brno .

Only in 1886 did she return to the Vienna State Opera, an honorary member of which she has now been appointed. But only one year later, after a last performance in Salzburg, she said goodbye to the stage at the age of 54, physically and mentally exhausted and exhausted from around 25 years of almost non-stop and dedicated commitment as a singer. She now lived secluded in Graz near her daughter, suffered more and more from depression and, from 1889, experienced an unfulfilled love for a philologist and German philologist who was not yet 30 years old . After her voice failed when she tried to perform again in July 1891 in Salzburg, she finally threw herself in September of that year - shortly before that, she had gone to the sanatorium for the mentally ill, Vienna- Hacking , for voluntary treatment , where she stayed for the winter wanted - from the fourth floor of the Zwett (e) lhof , Stephansplatz 6 or Wollzeile 4, Vienna-Innere Stadt , to death. The wealthy artist, who suffered severe mental illness in Graz in September 1890 , had spent seven weeks in the Feldhof state mental institution in March and April of the year of her death , because of her son-in-law, the opera singer (and theater manager) Heinrich Gottinger (1860-1926 ), as well as her daughter, Fanny Gottinger, who had been forced to impose the board of trustees , was dismissed as sane . The autopsy of the corpse carried out by the coroner Arnold Paltauf (1860-1893) revealed a mental illness caused by changes in the cerebral substance. The result of the autopsy as well as two partially contradicting wills led to controversies in the handling of the significant estate.

Marie Wilt was buried on September 27, 1891 in the Vienna Central Cemetery, where she was last buried on March 15, 1912 in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna (group 32 A, no.

The repertoire of Marie Wilt included the major soprano roles of the great operas, as well as solo parts in major oratorios and fairs such as in Verdi's Messa da Requiem , in the Missa Solemnis by Beethoven or in the 9th Symphony . She had an extraordinary range of voices, starting from a high alto range up to approximately three and a half octaves. She mastered coloratura singing just as perfectly as the broad pathetic performance of a dramatic soprano . With her convincing singing skills, she compensated for her less accomplished acting performances, as various music critics denied her the elegance for the respective roles due to her extremely massive figure. Her colleague Leo Slezak created the malicious aperçu, paraphrasing a Jules Verne title, “The journey around the Wilt in eighty days”.

Literature and Sources

Web links

Commons : Marie Wilt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The suicide of the singer Marie Wilt. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 9728/1891, September 26, 1891, p. 7, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  2. ↑ Suicide of the singer Marie Wilt , p. 6, bottom right.
  3. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) On the medical history of Ms. Wilt. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 9735/1891, October 3, 1891, p. 5 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  4. ↑ The suicide of the singer Marie Wilt. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 9728/1891, September 26, 1891, p. 3, top left (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  5. ↑ The suicide of the singer Marie Wilt. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 9727/1891, September 25, 1891, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  6. ↑ Marie Wilt. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 9729/1891, September 27, 1891, p. 6, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  7. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Mrs. Wilt's will. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 9731/1891, September 29, 1891, p. 5, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  8. ↑ Marie Wilt. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 9730/1891, September 28, 1891, p. 5, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  9. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Marie Wildt (sic)! . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on January 7, 2013.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The tombstone placed in 1912 refers to the year of birth 1834. - See: Hedwig Abraham: Marie Wildt (sic!) . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on January 7, 2013.
    See also (Literature): Neue Freie Presse . December 13, 1909, p. 1.
  2. ↑ After Hacking was incorporated into Vienna in 1892, the sanatorium, founded in 1887 and offering 20 beds, was operated from 1894 at the address Seuttergasse 6 (previously: Wasagasse 2). In 1907 the concession to operate the sanatorium was passed from neuropathologist Alexander Holländer (1851–1925) to general practitioner Robert Rosenthal. - The municipal administration of the imperial capital and residence city of Vienna . Vienna 1907, ZDB -ID 567006-8 , p. 292.
personal data
SURNAME Wilt, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liebenthaler, Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1891
Place of death Vienna