Selma Nicklass-Kempner

Selma Nicklass-Kempner (by Ignaz Eigner , 1886)

Selma Nicklass-Kempner with her students, 1905. Photo by Zander & Labisch .

Selma Nicklaß-Kempner , sometimes also: Niklas-Kempner , (born April 2, 1850 in Breslau , † December 22, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

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She was a student of Jenny Meyer (1834-1894) and made her debut in 1870 as Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula in the Berlin Kroll Opera . She had engagements in Aachen, Augsburg , Berlin (at the Stern Conservatory ), Leipzig, Rotterdam and Vienna , where she worked as a singing teacher at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde from 1884 and, among other things, Crown Princess Stephanie of Belgium (1864–1945) took private lessons gave.

The long list of female students speaks for her skills and fame as a singing teacher.

Her grave is in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

Her husband, Georg Nicklass, died on May 28, 1893 at the age of 41 in Vienna, house of mourning: Vienna-Innere Stadt , Hohenstaufengasse 17.

students

• Louise von Ehrenstein (1867–1944), Austrian opera singer (soprano)
• Mary Hagen (1867 / 1878–1944), German opera singer (soprano) and actress
• Fanny Opfer (1870–1944), German opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher
• Ottilie Metzger (1878–1944), German singer (contralto) and singing teacher
• Ida Salden (1878 - probably before 1930), German opera singer (soprano)
• Gertrud Förstel (1880–1950), German opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher
• Frieda Hempel (1885–1955), German opera singer (soprano)
• Ursula van Diemen (1897–1988), German opera singer (soprano)
• Clara Abramowitz , German soprano
• Rita Fornia , opera singer
• Mathilde Fröhlich , Austrian opera singer
• Helene Honigberger , German opera singer, violinist and music teacher
• Margarete Krämer-Bergau , German contralto
• Roxy King
• Estelle darling
• Rachel Morton
• Margarethe Parbs
• Marcella Roeseler
• Julie Shelley

literature

• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4: Moffo - Seidel . Third, expanded edition. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11419-2 , p. 2522.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ r .:  centenary of the Vienna Conservatory. (1817-1917). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 19082/1917, October 6, 1917, p. 4, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ^ The Crown Princess' singing teacher . In: Lars Friedrich: The Mayerling hodgepodge. Curiosities from 20 years of the Mayerling archive . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-7063-7 , p. 36.
3. ↑ ( Parte :) Instead of every special message. (...) Georg Nicklass (...). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 10331/1893, May 29, 1893, p. 7, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .