Therese Seehofer

Therese Seehofer (born February 20, 1846 in Wolkersdorf near Vienna , † December 4, 1936 in Berlin ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Therese Seehofer grew up as the daughter of a baker in a family with eight children. She received singing lessons at the age of eight. When she was fourteen, her father died and her vocal training was interrupted for the time being. At her insistence, her mother allowed her to attend the conservatory in Vienna. Finally, the singer Josefine Richter recognized the talent of the student and trained her further.

In the summer of 1866 she received an offer as a chamber singer to Grand Duchess Helena of Russia , after others to Grand Duchess Olga.

After she sang to the conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Carl Reinecke , in 1867 she received an engagement for two concerts by this orchestra. After concert tours through the Netherlands and Germany, she got an engagement as an opera singer at the Munich Opera in 1868 , where she sang the sword line in the world premiere of Richard Wagner's Walküre in 1870 . Voice problems prompted her to take further singing lessons from C. Pruckner in Vienna . From 1874 to 1890 she sang mainly smaller roles at the Berlin Court Opera, after her retirement she still worked as a singing teacher.

Her soprano voice, as clean as a bell, had a range of two octaves and the artist struck the three-stroke C and the low A with it.

student

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literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Seehofer, Therese . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 33. Part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, p. 307 f. ( Digitized version ).
Seehofer, Therese (1846–1936), singer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005,ISBN 3-7001-3580-7, p. 101.
Christian Fastl: Seehofer, Therese. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
A. Diezmann (Ed.): Therese Seehofer. In: Allgemeine Moden-Zeitung , Volume 70, 1868, No. 35, pp. 552-553.

Web links

Therese Seehofer in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Therese Seehofer at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Portrait of Therese Seehofer in the digital portrait index

Individual evidence

↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon , 4th volume, p. 3194, CD-ROM version (= 3rd expanded edition [1997–2000]).

personal data
SURNAME	Seehofer, Therese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolkersdorf , Austria
DATE OF DEATH	4th December 1936
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon , 4th volume, p. 3194, CD-ROM version (= 3rd expanded edition [1997–2000]).