Pauline Horson

Pauline Horson (Still)

Pauline Horson-Brügelmann , born Pauline Dyckhoff (born March 25, 1858 in Beckum , North Rhine-Westphalia , † January 28, 1918 in Bonn ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

She studied classical singing with Karl Schneider in Cologne and made her debut at the court theater in Sondershausen in 1875 . In the following year (1876), after a successful guest performance in Weimar, she came to the Hoftheater Weimar , where she was finally appointed grand ducal Saxon chamber singer and stayed in the ensemble until 1886, the year of their wedding. That year she married the chemist Dr. sc. nat. Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann (born April 24, 1849 in Ratingen-Cromford ; † November 18, 1920 in Bad Kissingen ) from the family of manufacturers at the Cromford textile factory in Ratingen .

At the premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal on July 26, 1882 in Bayreuth, under the baton of Hermann Levi , she sang one of the magical girls. Further solos as a magical girl followed in 1883 and 1884. She was known for her interpretations of Mozart's lyrical and coloratura operas. She gave concerts and took part in oratorios , gave guest appearances at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, at the Hofoperhaen in Berlin , Dresden , Hanover , Leipzig and at the Berlin Kroll Opera .

Having become hard of hearing, she died in Bonn in 1918 as a result of pneumonia. In her will, she left an amount of 150,000 marks in cash from the sale of a house in Bonn and 17 Cologne-Munich railway premium vouchers worth 5,100 marks for the care and design of Bad Kissinger's " Ballinghains ", a bath doctor from Kissingen, Dr. Franz Anton von Balling 's gardens. Her and her husband, who got engaged in Bad Kissingen at the time and stayed there several times in the following years, were given a small area with a memorial stone and benches to thank them at “Finsterberg” in 1922. However, a foundation was no longer established. The estate became worthless due to the inflation that soon set in .

The couple is buried in the Poppelsdorf cemetery in Bonn-Poppelsdorf .

literature

Gerhard Wulz: A love of money for Bad Kissingen ... The foundation of the singer Pauline Horson-Brügelmann . In: Saale-Zeitung of October 13, 2007
Thomas Mäuser: Board for a patroness , in: Saale-Zeitung from August 15, 2011

Web links

Pauline Horson at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

↑ On the memorial plaque, which was only renewed on the Bad Kissinger Stein in 2011, is the inscription requested by Pauline Horson: “Erected in memory of two loyal friends of the city of Bad Kissingen and the Saale valley with its springs, mountains, meadows and forests, namely Mrs. Pauline Horson-Brügelmann, born on March 25, 1853 in Beckum in Westphalia, died in Bonn on the Rhine on January 28, 1918, former Grand Ducal Saxon Chamber Singer, member of the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Weimar and Richard Wagner's stage consecration festival in the Years 1882, 1883 and 1884, where she created the first flower girl in Parsifal under the master’s direction and also played and sang to great acclaim in 1883 and 1884, as well as by Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann, born in Cromford near Düsseldorf on April 24, 1849 , Doctor of Science from the University of Tübingen. "

personal data
SURNAME	Horson, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Horson-Brügelmann, Pauline (full name); Dyckhoff, Pauline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 25, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Beckum , North Rhine-Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH	January 28, 1918
Place of death	Bonn

[1] On the memorial plaque, which was only renewed on the Bad Kissinger Stein in 2011, is the inscription requested by Pauline Horson: “Erected in memory of two loyal friends of the city of Bad Kissingen and the Saale valley with its springs, mountains, meadows and forests, namely Mrs. Pauline Horson-Brügelmann, born on March 25, 1853 in Beckum in Westphalia, died in Bonn on the Rhine on January 28, 1918, former Grand Ducal Saxon Chamber Singer, member of the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Weimar and Richard Wagner's stage consecration festival in the Years 1882, 1883 and 1884, where she created the first flower girl in Parsifal under the master’s direction and also played and sang to great acclaim in 1883 and 1884, as well as by Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann, born in Cromford near Düsseldorf on April 24, 1849 , Doctor of Science from the University of Tübingen. "