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Maria Walburga Wilhelmina Schauseil (born May 28, 1860 in Düsseldorf ; † June 2, 1951 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German concert singer ( soprano ), particularly appreciated by Johannes Brahms and Max Bruch .

family

Her grandfather Johann Gottlieb Schauseil (1804–1877) was a singer and military musician , her father Wilhelm Schauseil (1834–1892) was music director and enjoyed a good reputation in the Rhineland as a pianist , conductor and founder of the Düsseldorf Bach Society , while he was only a composer was able to penetrate a few choral movements. Wally Schauseil played the Piano Concerto by Friedrich Burgmüller 1860 in Bonn under Albert Dietrich , and also in 1860 and again in 1864 in Dusseldorf under Julius exchange .

Life

Wally Schauseil received her vocal training from Oscar Lindhult (1869–1870) in Cologne and from the great educators Francesco Lamperti in Milan and Julius Stockhausen in Frankfurt am Main . She devoted herself entirely to working as a concert and oratorio singer and never appeared on stage .

Their debut took place in Düsseldorf in 1878. In 1879 she participated in the Lower Rhine Music Festival . After initially performing in West German cities, she expanded her concert activities and now appeared in Bremen , Frankfurt a. M., in Karlsruhe , Breslau and especially often in Berlin , where she could be found regularly in the years 1885-1892. In Dresden and Leipzig she was a soloist in the famous Gewandhaus concerts . She also had great success with foreign appearances. She sang several times in Holland , as well as in Sweden , France and Italy .

As early as 1900 she gave up her concert career in order to devote herself to intensive work in the educational sector. In 1903 , after graduating from the Conservatory , Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann deepened her vocal training with her. From 1904 to 1908 Wally Schauseil worked as a music teacher at the Cologne Conservatory . Later she went to Bad Godesberg near Bonn, where she died very old.

Highlights in her concert repertoire were solo parts in the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach , in the Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus by Georg Friedrich Handel , in the two oratorios The Creation and The Seasons by Joseph Haydn , in Paradise and the Peri by Robert Schumann and in the oratorio Christ by Franz Liszt .

literature

Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .
Dominik Höink, Rebekka Sandmeier: Performances of Handel's oratorios in German-speaking countries (1800–1900). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0070-6 .
Thomas Synofzik, Susanne Rode-Breymann (ed.): Rhenish singers of the 20th century. A documentation in words and sound (= contributions to Rhenish music history. Volume 164). Merseburger, Kassel 2003, ISBN 3-87537-303-0 , pp. 248-250.
Volker Frech: Living pictures and music using the example of Düsseldorf culture. Master's thesis from 1999. GRIN, 2001, ISBN 3-8386-3062-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Show rope, Wally
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Show rope, Maria Walburga Wilhelmina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German concert singer (soprano), particularly appreciated by Johannes Brahms and Max Bruch
DATE OF BIRTH	May 28, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	June 2, 1951
Place of death	bad Godesberg