Ruzena Herlinger

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Ruzena Herlinger Czech Růžena Herlingerová (born as Rose Schwartz February 8, 1893 in Tabor , Austria-Hungary ; died February 19, 1978 in Montreal , Canada ) was a Czechoslovak-Canadian concert singer for soprano and a singing teacher.

Life

Rose Schwartz received her basic musical education in Tabor. To study singing, she first went to Vienna and then to Berlin. She came into contact with Arnold Schönberg's circle in Vienna in the early 1920s and became a member of the International Society for Contemporary Music ISCM, founded in Salzburg in 1922 . She practiced interpreting the vocal works of new music . In 1928 she sang Alban Berg's seven early songs as piano accompanist in Paris and commissioned him to compose the concert aria Der Wein , which she sang in the world premiere under Hermann Scherchen on June 4, 1930 in Königsberg in Prussia and in Vienna under Anton Webern in 1932 . She performed regularly in Vienna, where she was accompanied on the piano by Maurice Ravel at a recital with French song compositions . In addition to contemporary works, she also performed songs from the musical romanticism, especially songs by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms . In 1924, 1927 and 1928 she performed in Paris, 1925 to 1928 in Berlin , 1928 in London and in 1933 in Amsterdam, Geneva, Venice and New York. The close relationship with Berg is also evident in two traditional letters from Berg to her.

On June 29, 1938 Herlinger took part with three performances in a broadcast on Radio Paris about Bohemian songs, La poésie populaire morave en chansons , including pieces by Leoš Janáček . After the German defeat of Czechoslovakia in 1939, she emigrated to Great Britain, where she later gave concerts in front of Allied soldiers. In 1946 she returned to Czechoslovakia. There she became music consultant at the Československý rozhlas state radio and the director of the radio choir.

In 1949 she emigrated to Canada and received Canadian citizenship in 1954. Here she worked as a singing teacher and taught from 1957 at the "Conservatoire de musique de Montréal" and from 1963 to 1970 at the "Schulich School of Music", the Faculty of Music at McGill University . Her students there included Josèphe Colle , Claude Corbeil, Claire Gagnier , Joseph Rouleau, Huguette Tourangeau and André Turp.

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  1. ↑ André Coeuroy: Alban Berg in Paris . Performance review. Copy of a newspaper clipping without source, without date, in: Erich Alban Berg (Hrsg.): Alban Berg, life and work in data and images . Insel-Verlag , Frankfurt 1976, p. 200. The Sept mélodies de jeunesse are called: Night, Schilflied, Die Nachtigall, Traumgekrönt, In the room, Liebesode, and summer days. Sometimes also called Sept Lieder de jeunesse , op. 2. The first performance of Berg's newly revised "Lieder" for an orchestra was in Paris at the end of March 1928 in the salon of Mme Jeanne Dubost; Erroneously called "First performance Vienna on November 6, 1928" by Gagnaux, French . In Paris, Berg himself played the piano accompaniment.
  2. ↑ Volker Scherliess : Alban Berg . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1975, p. 92
  3. ^ Douglas Jarman: The music of Alban Berg. University of California Press , repr. 1985, p. 259
  4. ↑ Janáček à la radio française 1929-1939 , at MusicaBohemica, blog
personal data
SURNAME Herlinger, Ruzena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herlinger, Růžena; Schwartz, Rose (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-Canadian concert singer and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Tábor
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1978
Place of death Montreal