Georgina Schubert
{{Short description|German coloratura soprano and lieder composer}}
Georgina (or Georgine) Schubert (28 October 1840 – 26 December 1878) was a German coloratura soprano and lieder composer who toured throughout Europe.{{Cite book |last=Stewart-Green |first=Miriam |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6815939 |title=Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice |date=1980 |publisher=G.K. Hall |isbn=0-8161-8498-4 |location=Boston, Mass. |oclc=6815939}}{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846 |title=International encyclopedia of women composers |date=1987 |isbn=0-9617485-2-4 |edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged |location=New York |oclc=16714846}}
Life
Schubert was born in Dresden to violinist and composer François Schubert and his wife, soprano Maschinka Schubert. She was not related to the better-known composer Franz Schubert.{{Cite book |last=Stern |first=Susan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3844725 |title=Women composers : a handbook |date=1978 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1138-3 |location=Metuchen, N.J. |oclc=3844725}}{{Cite book |last=Weir |first=Albert E. |title=The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: in One Volume |publisher=The Macmillan Company |year=1930 |location=New York |pages=1689 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Composer - Schubert, François - MyMusicScores |url=https://mymusicscores.com/composer/schubert-francois/ |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=mymusicscores.com}} Her maternal grandparents were also musicians: Kapellmeister Georg Abraham Schneider and his wife, Dresden Court Opera singer Caroline Portmann. Schubert’s first teacher was her mother. She later studied with Jenny Lind and Manuel Garcia.{{Cite web |title=ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network |url=https://www.concertonet.com/scripts/review.php?ID_review=1558 |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=www.concertonet.com}}
Schubert sang at major venues in England (Alexandra Palace and Grosvenor House).{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLkPAAAAYAAJ&dq=georgina+schubert&pg=PA35 |title=The Musical Standard |date=1875 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4MNAAAAQAAJ&dq=georgina+schubert&pg=PA674 |title=The Academy |date=1875 |publisher=J. Murray |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eA4_yoSEXm4C&dq=georgina+schubert&pg=PA94 |title=The Athenaeum |date=1875 |publisher=J. Lection |language=en}} She appeared at the Lyric Theater in Paris, and at venues in the Netherlands and throughout Europe.{{Cite book |last=Toonkunstenaars-Vereeniging |first=Nederlandsche |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-utTAAAAcAAJ&dq=georgina+schubert&pg=RA1-PA235 |title=Caecilia: algemeen muzikaal tijdschrift van Nederland |date=1862 |publisher=Kemink |language=nl}}{{Cite book |first=Anya |last=Laurence |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1123454581 |title=Women of notes : 1.000 women composers Born Before 1900. |date=1978 |publisher=Richards Rosen Press, Inc |oclc=1123454581}} She sang the role of Dinorah in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le Pardon de Ploermel more than 30 times.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_FjPVw9GCRQC&dq=georgina+schubert&pg=PA405 |title=Revue et gazette musicale de Paris |date=1861 |publisher=Revue |language=fr}}
Compositions
Schubert composed at least 12 lieder:
- “Ave Maria” (text by Anonymous){{Cite web |title=Georgine Schubert Song Texts {{!}} LiederNet |url=https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=24040 |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=www.lieder.net}}
- “Barcarole” (text by Carlo Pepoli)
- “Der Muschel gleichen meine Leider” (text by Karl Egon Ebert)
- “Der traumende See” (text by Julius Mosen)
- “Die Heimath” (text by Anonymous)
- “Gondoliera” (text by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi as Pietro Metastasio)
- “Ich mocht’ ein Lied dir singen” (text by H. Weisser)
- “L’ame d’un ange” (text by Theodore Faullin de Banville)
- “Romance” (text by Anonymous)
- “Romanza” (text by Raniero de’ Calzabigi)
- “Serenade” (text by Anonymous)
- “Wiegenlied” (text by Melchior von Diepenbrock)
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