#Frieda Hempel

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Exactly 109 years ago at the The Metropolitan Opera. Frieda Hempel in Verdi's “La Traviata” and a great cast.

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Mozart's Magic flute through time:

The queen of the night

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Edison (Royal) 4 minute cylinder... “ Little Alabama Coon”

Edison 4 minute cylinder… “Little Alabama Coon” This song is performed by “Frieda Hempel and the Old Home Singers”. The cylinder number is #29023. These are stock photos of the royal purple cylinder that we currently have. Royal purple cylinders are hard to locate. Don’t miss this opportunity. Any questions, feel free to ask!    

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Cirkus krone

The traveling show belonged to Alexander Philadelphia. It was a very small affair composed of a couple of young lions and some hyenas, but it was enough to excite the imagination of farmers who had never been exposed to such exotic marvels. Heinrich, who was active in the 1820s as a fruit farmer, was the father of Carl Krone, also born in Questenberg on SeptemCarl (whose name was sometimes spelled Karl) is the founder of the Krone circus dynasty.Ĭarl & Friederike Krone's Famil圜arl’s true calling came when a traveling menagerie visited Questenberg. The first registered Krone ancestor to settle in the area was Johann Anton Heinrich Krone (b.1794), who married Johanna Dorothea Wilhelmina Hempel, a resident of Questenberg, where he settled and had a son, Heinrich Wilhelm Krone. The first traces of the Krone lineage appeared in the early nineteenth century in Questenberg, a small village in the Harz mountains in the German state of Saxony (in what is today the Mansfeld-Südharz district of Saxony-Anhalt). Krone has proudly remained during all that time Größter Circus Europas ("Europe’s Largest Circus"). in 1943, Circus Krone became, remarkably, a woman affair: It has been first led magnificently by Frieda Krone Sembach (1915-1995), Carl’s daughter, then by her daughter, Christel Krone Sembach (1956-2017), and today by Jana Mandana Krone, Christel’s adoptive daughter-the three of them having excelled in equestrian and animal presentations as much as in circus management. They developed international tour strategies that followed the ever-changing European economic cycles, which were strongly sustained by their successful activities in their home-based circus building, Munich’s Kronebau, established in 1919.Īfter WWII and the death of Carl Krone Jr. Yet, unlike other enterprises that followed the same model, Circus Krone’s discreet owners remained financially conservative, avoiding the dangerous ostentation of some of their colleagues in doing so, they averted the crises and failures that had often plagued their competition. (1870-1943), the Krone organization typically grew from a fairground menagerie to a giant circus, according to a pattern quite common at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe, triggered by the European tour of the giant American circus Barnum & Bailey, which introduced European audiences to their first three-ring circus traveling with a full-fledged menagerie. In addition, under various incarnations, its permanent circus building in Munich, the Kronebau, has been home to regular winter circus productions since 1919.įounded by Carl Krone (1833-1900), then developed by his son, Carl Krone, Jr. Its tours in many European countries, especially between the two world wars, have established its fame beyond the confines of Germany, its homeland. 1.11 Winter Strategies and The New KronebauĬircus Krone is the world's oldest circus company: It has been owned and operated continuously by the same family for more than a century and has maintained troughout the years the standards of quality initiated by its founder, Carl Krone, as well as its original menagerie’s heritage.1.4 Circus Charles: An International Vocation.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Deh, vieni, non tardar

Frieda Hempel, Soprano 1911

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February 1917, New York. "Frieda Hempel." The German soprano and Metropolitan Opera star.

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June 26 in Music History

1582 Birth of composer Johannes Schultz. 1747 Birth of composer Leopold Jan Antonin Kozekuh in Welwarn.  1749 Birth of composer Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans. 1788 Mozart finishes his Symphony No.39 in Eb, K. 543 in Vienna.  1788 FP of Gretry's "Le Rival cinfident" Paris. 1795 FP of Paisello´s "La Daunia felice" Foggia. 1819 FP of Meyerbeer's "Emma de Resburgo" Venice.

1837 Birth of American composer Ernest Guiraud in New Orleans.  1855 FP of Offenbach's "Oyayaie, ou La Reine des îles" Paris. 1862 FP of Erkel's "Sarolta" Budapest with G. Erkel. 1870 FP of Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre in Munich. 1875 Birth of Italian baritone Riccardo Stracciari  in Casalecchio Sul Reno.  1875 Birth of American pianist and composer Camille Zeckwer. 1878 Birth of Hungarian composer Albert Siklos.  1885 Birth of German soprano Frieda Hempel in Leipzig. 

1891 Birth of composer Heinrich Lemacher. 1898 FP of Lecocq's "Ruse d'amour" Bologna. 1900 Birth of American tenor Richard Crooks. 1901 Birth of composer William Busch. 1902 Birth of American pianist and conductor Antonia Brico in Rotterdam. 

1907 French composer Camille Saint-Saens is given the Mus.D degree at Oxford. 

1912 FP of Mahler's Ninth Symphony is performed posthumously. Bruno Walter conducting in Vienna.  1914 Birth of German tenor Wolfgang Windgassen in Annemasse.  1916 Birth of Italian baritone Giuseppe Taddei in Genoa. 1923 Death of German baritone Karl Scheidemantel. 

1924 Death of Russian composer Valentina Serova. 1925 FP of Leoncavallo's "La maschera nuda" Allegra collected various sketches by Leoncavallo, and arranged for them, a 3-act operetta; Naples. 1925 Death of Argentine composer and pianist Ernesto Drangosch.

1926 FP of Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta in Prague.  1927 Birth of French baritone Jean-Pierre Laffage in Paris.  1928 Birth of American composer Jacob Druckman in Philadelphia.  1929 Birth of Australian soprano June Bronhill in Broken Hill, N.S.W. 1930 Birth of Italian soprano Anna Maccianti in Florence.  1931 Birth of Belgian composer Lucien Goethlas in Gent. 1933 Birth of Italian conductor Claudio Abbado in Milan.

1933 FP of Canteloube's "Vercingetorix" Paris.  1934 Birth of composer Luis Felipe Pires. 1941 Birth of American composer William Ludtke in Bismarck, North Dakota. 1943 Birth of American composer Allen Strang. 1945 Birth of American composer Barry Schrader. 1945 Death of composer Nikolai Tcherepnin in Paris.  1950 Death of Ukrainian soprano Antonina Nezhdanova.

1954 Birth of Chinese composer Bun-Ching Lam in Macao region of China. 1954 Death of Russian bass Alexander Pirogov.  1966 FP of Hovhaness' "Pilate" Los Angeles. 1971 Death of Columbian composer Guillermo Uribe-Holguín in Bogotá,  1971 Death of Catalan composer, violinist, and pianist Juan de Manen.

1977 Death of Russian tenor Sergei Lemeshev.  1986 FP of E. T. Zwilich's Piano Concerto. Marc-André Hamelin, soloist with Detroit Symphony with Günther Herbig conducting. 1987 Death of Dutch composer Henk Badings in Maarheeze, Netherlands. 2000 FP of Robert Kapilow's D. C. Monuments by the National Symphony.

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Die Meistersingerin: 1917

February 1917, New York. "Frieda Hempel." The German soprano and Metropolitan Opera star. 4x6 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

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Die Meistersingerin: 1917 February 1917, New York. "Frieda Hempel." The German soprano and Metropolitan Opera star. 4x6 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

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Frieda Hempel - Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen

I just found this rendition of my favourite aria and I must post it here because it’s pretty amazing! What a perfection! I love the fact that she added two high Fs and sang the last note an octave higher. 

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Frieda Hempel (1884-1955) was a German soprano and became the favorite singer of Emperor Wilhelm II.

In New York she has performed over 200 times at The Metropolitan Opera. Here is an original program announcement for a concert at Carnegie Hall on March 25, 1925.

In 1929, the pianist Coenraad V. Bos accompanied the only 13-year-old Yehudi Menuhin in Berlin at one of his very first performances.

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Edison (Royal) 4 minute cylinder... “ Aloha Oe”

Edison 4 minute cylinder… “Aloha Oe” This song is performed by “Frieda Hempel and Criterion Quartet”. The cylinder number is #29007. These are stock photos of the royal purple cylinder that we currently have. Royal purple cylinders are hard to locate. Don’t miss this opportunity. Any questions, feel free to ask!    

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Jacques Offenbach, Les contes d’Hoffmann: Les oiseaux dans la charmille

Frieda Hempel, Soprano

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Today I remember the German Soprano Frieda Hempel (June.26.1884-October 7.1955). This is a original letter from her to the Steinway&Sons Company in New York. We see the letter and on the other side the printed text in a offical book from 1929 that shows the best clients of the Pianohouse.

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This photo from October 7, 1920 shows the German soprano Frieda Hempel (1884-1955) arriving in New York with the ocean liner Mauretania. She sang regularly at The Metropolitan Opera since 1912/13.

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Today a romantic advertising from Steinway Co. 1909

Note: Steinway & Sons has been renowned for producing pianos since 1853, for different opera singers include Adelina Patti, Aino Ackte, David Bipsham, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Edouard & Jea De Reszke, Elisabeth Rethberg, Emma Calvé, Emma Eames, Emma Juch, Emmy Destinn, Enrico Bevignani, Etelka Gerster, Frances Alda, Francisco Vignas, Fraser Gange, Frederick Jagel, Frieda Hempel, Geraldine Farrar, Jean Lasalle, Johanna Gadski , Julia Culp, Karin Branzell, Lillian Nordica, Louise Homer, Lucrezia Bori, Luigi Ravelli, Marcella Sembrich, Margarete Matzenauer, Maria Ivogun, Maria Roze Mapleson, Marian Anderson, Mary Garden, Minnie Hauk, Nellie Melba, Nina Koshetz, Olive Fremstad, Paul Robeson, Reinald Werrenrath, Sigrid Arnoldson, and Sofia Scalchi and Italian conductor Enrico Bevignani.