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Mozart Lieder And Concert Arias (Album) by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Artist Biography For Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf DBE December 9 1915 – August 3 2006 Was A German Opera Singer Who Later Took British Citizenship . She Was One Of The Leading Sopranos Of The Post-World War II Period Much Admired For Her Performances Of Mozart Strauss And Hugo Wolf. She Was Born In Jarotschin In Prussia Now Part Of Poland To Friedrich Schwarzkopf And His Wife Elisabeth Fröhling. Christened Olga Maria Elisabeth Frederike Schwarzkopf Schwarzkopf Showed An Interest In Music From An Early Age. She Performed In Her First Opera In 1928 As Eurydice In A School Production Of Gluck's Orfeo Ed Euridice In Magdeburg Germany. In 1934 Schwarzkopf Began Her Musical Studies At The Berlin Hochschule Für Musik. However At The Suggestion Of The Baritone Karl Schmitt-Walter She Switched Teachers And Started Working With The Celebrated Coloratura Soprano Maria Ivogün As Well As With Her Husband The Noted Pianist Michael Raucheisen. Ivogün's Advice To Her New Pupil Was "Be Noble My Child!"

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