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Elisabeth Grümmer

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Elisabeth Schilz Grümmer (31 March 1911 – 6 November 1986) was a German operatic lyric soprano.

She was born at Niederjeutz, near Diedenhofen, Alsace-Lorraine (later Yutz-Basse; now Thionville, France) to German parents. In 1918, her family were expelled from Lorraine, and they settled in Meiningen, where she studied theater and made her stage debut as Klärchen in Goethe's Egmont.

She married the concertmaster of the theater orchestra, Detlev Grümmer, and became a mother. The family moved to Aachen, where they met Herbert von Karajan. Elisabeth started to take singing lessons, von Karajan cast her as the first flower maiden in a performance of Wagner's Parsifal. She went on from the Aachen to perform in Duisburg and Prague.

Her husband was killed in a bombing in the war. After the war, she settled in Berlin, singing at the Städische Oper Berlin. She performed in all the major opera houses in Europe and the United States, restricting herself to a small number of roles, primarily sung in German. She was also active in song recitals and concert performances, particularly of Brahms' German Requiem.

The Kammersängerin became a professor at the Berlin Musikhochschule.

She can be seen on video in two performances as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, one conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler and the other in German translation conducted by Ferenc Fricsay.

She died in Warendorf, Westphalia.

A recollection: http://oberon481.typepad.com/oberons_grove/2008/08/waiting-for-elisabeth-grummer.html

Discography

Operas

Sacred Music

  • "Matthäus-Passion" BWV 244 by Johann Sebastian Bach, conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, EMICLASSICS 5655092 2CD-Album (1995)
  • "Johannes-Passion" BWV 245 by Johann Sebastian Bach, conductor Karl Forster, EMICLASSICS 7642342 2CD-Album (1992)
  • "Kantaten - Cantatas" by Johann Sebastian Bach, conductor Kurt Thomas, BERLINCLASSICS B000024WMM CD (1996)
  • "Bach MADE IN GERMANY" Vol. II Kantaten, Motetten, Weihnachtsoratorium, conductor Kurt Thomas, BERLINCLASSICS B000031W6B 8CD-Album (1999)
  • "Die Schöpfung" by Joseph Haydn, conductor Karl Forster, EMI 2 CD-Album (1989)
  • "Stabat mater" by Gioacchino Rossini, conductor Ferenc Fricsay, Melodram (1994)
  • "Messa Da Requiem " by Giuseppe Verdi, conductor Ferenc Fricsay, live recording 1951, Andromeda (2007)

Lieder

  • "Elisabeth Grümmer, Lieder by Schubert, Brahms, Grieg und Verdi", conductor Hugo Diez and Richard Kraus, TESTAMENT B000003XJQ (1996)
  • "Elisabeth Grümmer, Liederabend, Lieder by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Schoeck, Wolf", ORFEO 506001B CD (2000)
  • "Recital 1970, Lieder by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Reger, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Wolf", Dirigent Richard Kraus, GALA B000028CLY 2CD-Album (2001)
  • "Elisabeth Grümmer sings Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Wolf ", Historic recordings 1956/1958. Hänssler Classics (2009)

Video

  • "Don Giovanni" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, Deutsche Grammophon 073 019-9 DVD-Video (2001)

Bibliography

  • The Last Prima Donnas, by Lanfranco Rasponi, Alfred A Knopf, 1982. ISBN 0-394-52153-6

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