Pauline Anna Milder-Hauptmann
Pauline Anna Milder -Hauptmann ( born December 13, 1785 Konstantin Opel, today: Istanbul, † May 29, 1838 in Berlin) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).
Life and singing career
In addition to piano lessons Milder also received singing lessons from Antonio Salieri and Sigismund von Neukomm. It was promoted by Emanuel Schikaneder and debuted on April 9, 1803 Schikaneder's Theater an der Wien as Juno in Franz Xaver Süßmayr Singspiel The Mirror of Arcadia. According to a 1805 scale Konskriptionsbogen the theater, the home Laimgrube No. 26, she lived with her parents and her sister Jeanette at this time there as well - along with Joseph August Rockel and his sister Elisabeth Rockel. Beethoven had recently also had an official residence at the Theater an der Wien.
1807 moved to the Kärntnertortheater Milder, where she became one of the most admired and successful singers of her time soon. In 1810, the singer married the Viennese jeweler Peter Hauptmann. In addition to Salieri, Luigi Cherubini and Joseph Weigl ( Emmeline ) Beethoven with the Leonore composed a match for them: 1805, 1806 and 1814, she sang the role in the two world premieres of Leonore and Fidelio.
1819 issued Milder, who was now working in Berlin, Gioacchino Rossini and Conradin Kreutzer commissions for one-act play that she wanted to perform on tour: Kreutzer and Pius Alexander Wolff's monodrama Adele by Budoy she brought in 1821 in Königsberg actually premiered. Between 1816 and 1829 Milder -Hauptmann occurred among others in several (partly composed or adapted for them) Spontini roles at the Berlin Court Opera. She made guest performances by Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Russia.
On March 11, 1829, she sang under the baton of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy with the Sing- Akademie zu Berlin, where she had since 1821 a member and soloist, in a revival of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion, the first since the death of the composer and 100 years after their initial sounding in Leipzig St. Thomas Church. In the Blackheads in Riga hall took place on 10 February 1830, the first performance of the composed for them Gesangsszene The Shepherd on the Rock (D 965, October / November 1828) by Franz Schubert, 1836, she pulled all the way back from the stage.
Milder was buried in the Old Cathedral Cemetery of St. Hedwig's parish at the Liesenstraße.
Jeanette Milder burden
Milders younger sister Jeannette (* 1799) occurred on several occasions as a pianist and singer, and in 1823 a member of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Jeannette studied composition with Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen and published several collections of songs. Her husband, Friedrich Leopold burden, was a painter and professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts. After his death, she worked as a piano and singing teacher.
Trivia
- As Napoleon Bonaparte, the soprano in Vienna (1809 ) heard this, he was so excited that he wanted to move Mild to move to Paris. But she refused.