Marjanne Kweksilber

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Marjanne Kweksilber (born January 18, 1944 in Amsterdam ; died May 12, 2008 there ) was a Dutch soprano who became known as an interpreter of new music as well as baroque and renaissance music.

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Kweksilber grew up in Amsterdam and went to Israel for a year in 1962 to work in the kibbutz . There she collected 350 Jewish songs, which she performed on her return with the Collegium Musicum Iudaïcum in the Netherlands, but also in Germany and Belgium. In 1965 the album Songs of Israel , submitted together with Stephen Simon, was released ; the included interpretation of Donna Donna rose to the top of the hit parade in the Netherlands. From 1967 to 1972 Kweksilber studied solo singing at the Muzieklyceum Amsterdam with Herman Schey ; She received further lessons from Max van Egmond , Bodi Rapp , Marilyn Tyler and Cathy Berberian .

From 1972 she worked as a soprano. Her interpretation of Erik Satie's cantata Le mort de Socrate (with the AKSO Ensemble under the direction of Reinbert de Leeuw) received outstanding reviews; This was followed by recordings of other songs by Satie and the Brecht songs by Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler . In 1976 she was one of the female voices in Louis Andriessen's De Staat and in the same year she had a leading role in Jiri Benda's production of Ariadne auf Naxos for the Holland Festival . She sang Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte , but also contemporary operas such as Axel von Reinbert de Leeuw and Jan van Vlijmen or the Bijmer Opera by Jacques Bank . Furthermore she interpreted songs by Arnold Schönberg and Ferruccio Busoni as well as madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi . With her second husband, the pianist Ludwig Olshansky, she performed a Schubert program in the Netherlands and the United States. Her son David Kweksilber comes from her first marriage , with whom she staged the premiere of the Four Songs of Controversy and Replacement by Rita Knuistingh Neven , written for her in 2001 .

In the last years of her life she concentrated on singing pedagogy and workshops. She also performed Kurt Schwitters Ursonate , An Anna Blume and Stefan Themerson's Wuff Wuff .

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SURNAME Kweksilber, Marjanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geel, Marjanne van (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soprano
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2008
Place of death Amsterdam