Sabine Hitzelberger
Sabine Hitzelberger , also Maria Sabina Hitzelberger , née Sabine Renk or Sabine Renck ( November 12, 1755 in Randersacker - 1815 in Würzburg ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Already when she was still a child, attention was drawn to her voice, so that she was brought up in the Ursuline monastery in Würzburg and was used as a treble player in church music. At a church celebration, Prince Adam Friedrich became aware of her through her wonderful voice, inquired about her circumstances and promised to take care of her further advancement if she vowed to devote herself entirely to art.
Hitzelberger's parents agreed and so the singer Stephani gave her singing lessons on royal orders. She not only appeared at the prince's private theater, but also sang repeatedly at court in concerts, and to such an extraordinary satisfaction that the ruler appointed her princely court singer in Würzburg.
In 1776 she went to Paris to appear in the Concerts spirituelles and des Amateurs , with such extraordinary success that her King Louis XVI. immediately offered an engagement at his theater with a salary of 6,000 livres .
The gratitude to her prince alone made her turn down the tempting offer and return to Würzburg. There she worked uninterruptedly until 1807, partly as an opera, partly as a concert singer, until she withdrew from public life due to increasing age.
She died in Würzburg in 1815.
family
Hitzelberger was married to the flautist Franz Ludwig Joseph Hitzelberger (before 1769 – after 1802). Her children were Catharina Elisabeth Hitzelberger (1777–1795), Kunigunde Hitzelberger (1778–1795), Johanna Hitzelberger (1783–1849) and Regina Hitzelberger (1788–1827), all also singers.
The violinist Theobald Lang (1783–1839, married Regina Hitzelberger) was her son-in-law. His children, the actor Ferdinand Lang (1810–1882) and the composer Josephine Caroline Lang (1815–1880), were Sabine Hitzelberger's grandchildren. The Protestant theologian, music writer and music philosopher Heinrich Adolf Köstlin (1846–1907), the son of the aforementioned, was her great-grandson. His daughter, in turn, the poet Therese Köstlin (1877–1964), was her great-great-granddaughter.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Sabine Hitzelberger . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 437 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Web links
- Sabine Hitzelberger in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Sabine Hitzelberger at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Sabine Hitzelberger in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hitzelberger, Sabine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hitzelberger, Maria Sabina; Renk, Sabine (maiden name); Renck, Sabine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1755 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Randersacker |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1815 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |