Lula Mysz-Gmeiner
Lula Mysz-Gmeiner (born August 16, 1876 in Kronstadt , Transylvania , † August 7, 1948 in Schwerin ) was a Transylvanian concert singer ( alto ) and vocal teacher .
Life
After finishing school she went to Vienna and was tutored there by Gustav Walter . She then moved to Berlin in 1897 and became a student of Emilie Herzog, Etelka Gerster and Lilli Lehmann . Her repertoire included songs by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Max Reger and others. In 1900 she married the Transylvanian naval officer Ernst Mysz. The couple had a total of three daughters, but only Susanne (married Anders) reached adulthood. From 1905 she was an Austro-Hungarian chamber singer . Her sister was the well-known mezzo-soprano Ella Gmeiner , her brother the bass-baritone Rudolf Gmeiner . Concert tours took her through Europe to the USA. She often performed together with Emil Mattiesen , Max Reger , Siegfried Ochs , Arthur Nikisch and Eduard Behm .
From 1920 Mysz-Gmeiner taught at the State Academic University of Music in Berlin (today: Berlin University of the Arts ). Her students include Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and her later son-in-law Peter Anders , from 1945, after the war-related loss of their Berlin apartment, at the Landesakademie in Schwerin until her death.
literature
- KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Second volume: MZ. Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-907820-70-3 , Sp. 2064.
Web links
- Lula Mysz Gmeiner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . CD-ROM version (= 3rd expanded edition (1997–2000)), Volume 4, 2475.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mysz-Gmeiner, Lula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gmeiner, Lula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Transylvanian concert singer (contralto) and vocal teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kronstadt , Transylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1948 |
| Place of death | Schwerin |