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Pauline Maria de Ahna (4 February 1863 – 13 May 1950), also known as Pauline Strauss, was a German operatic soprano and the wife of composer Richard Strauss. Her singing career was closely tied to her husband's career as a conductor and composer. From 1890 until 1894 she was committed to the Staatskapelle Weimar and from 1894 until 1897 she ...
The composer and his muse: Richard Strass' tempestuous relationship with his wife Pauline de Ahna. Richard Strauss was inspired by his wife. Now, for the 150th anniversary of his birth, a new ...
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Pauline Strauss-de Ahna trat weiterhin als Sängerin auf und feierte große Erfolge auf den Musikbühnen von Bayreuth, Berlin, Braunschweig, Brüssel, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Madrid etc. Neben ihrer Bühnenpräsenz galt sie vor allem als eine hervorragende Interpretin Strauss’scher Lieder. Zusammen mit ihrem Mann gab sie viele Konzerte und ...
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Richard Strauss: 15 facts about the great composer. 6. A formidable partnership. Strauss married soprano Pauline de Ahna on 10 September 1894. She was famous for being difficult and eccentric, but the marriage was essentially happy and she was a great source of inspiration to him. She died just eight months after him in 1950.
The general’s daughter Pauline de Ahna, born on February 4, 1863 in Ingolstadt (she would make herself 11 years younger for professional reasons relating to her career) was not only a talented singer but also had a character with temperament.
May 10, 2021 · On March 21, 1904, Richard Strauss took the podium to lead the Wetzler Symphony Orchestra in the very first performance of his Symphonia domestica. Richard Strauss in Love. Strauss met soprano Pauline de Ahna in 1887 and created the lead female role, Freihild, for her in Guntram, his first opera. They worked closely together, fell in love, were ...
Oct 8, 2020 · This chapter deals with Pauline Strauss-de Ahna as a singer and as the wife of a prominent composer and conductor. Her professional career from its beginnings at Munich’s Royal Conservatory and her period of instruction as a pupil of Richard Strauss and Emilie Merian-Genast to her engagements at the opera stages, primarily of Weimar, Munich, and the Bayreuth Festival, is traced and ...
