Georgina Schubert
Georgina (or Georgine) Schubert (28 October 1840 – 26 December 1878) was a German coloratura soprano and lieder composer who toured throughout Europe.[1][2]
Life
Schubert was born in Dresden to violinist and composer Francois Schubert and his wife, soprano Maschinka Schubert. Although Franz Schubert did not live until she was born, she become a memory of him. [3][4][5] Her maternal grandparents were also musicians: Kapellmeister Georg Abraham Schneider and his wife, Dresden Court Opera singer Caroline Portmann. Schubert’s first teacher was her mother.[2] She later studied with Jenny Lind and Manuel Garcia.[6]
Schubert sang at major venues in England (Alexandra Palace and Grosvenor House).[7][8][9] She appeared at the Lyric Theater in Paris, and at venues in the Netherlands and throughout Europe.[10][11] She sang the role of Dinorah in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le Pardon de Ploermel more than 30 times.[12]
Compositions
Schubert composed at least 12 lieder:
- “Ave Maria” (text by Anonymous)[13]
- “Barcarole” (text by Carlo Pepoli)[13]
- “Der Muschel gleichen meine Leider” (text by Karl Egon Ebert)[13]
- “Der traumende See” (text by Julius Mosen)[13]
- “Die Heimath” (text by Anonymous)[13]
- “Gondoliera” (text by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi as Pietro Metastasio)[13]
- “Ich mocht’ ein Lied dir singen” (text by H. Weisser)[13]
- “L’ame d’un ange” (text by Theodore Faullin de Banville)[13]
- “Romance” (text by Anonymous)[13]
- “Romanza” (text by Raniero de’ Calzabigi)[13]
- “Serenade” (text by Anonymous)[13]
- “Wiegenlied” (text by Melchior von Diepenbrock)[13]
References
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