Marya Freund
{{Short description|French soprano (1876–1966)}}
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| birth_place = Breslau, German Empire
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| death_place = Paris, France
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Marya Freund (12 December 1876 – 21 May 1966) was a German-born French soprano.
Career
She studied violin with Pablo de Sarasate, then singing with Henri Criticos and Raymond Zur Mühlen. In 1913 she took part in the creation of Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder in Vienna and became the appointed interpreter of the Pierrot lunaire. Her repertoire, especially that of the 20th, included Gustav Mahler, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Karol Szymanowski. She worked within the circle of Satie, Cocteau and Les Six, appearing in the premiere of Satie's Socrate in 1920.
In the 1920s, she began a career as a teacher and gave some advice to Germaine Lubin. Jewish,{{cite web |url=http://jean-louis-comperat.e-monsite.com/pages/marya-freund-nee-henschel-une-cantatrice-au-village.html |title=une cantatrice à Mont Saint Sulpice |website=jean-louis-comperat.e-monsite.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230233501/http://jean-louis-comperat.e-monsite.com/pages/marya-freund-nee-henschel-une-cantatrice-au-village.html |archive-date=2018-12-30}} she was arrested in February 1944 in occupied France. On the intervention of Alfred Cortot, she was released from the Drancy internment camp and transferred to the Rothschild Hospital.la vie musicale sous Vichy, Myriam Chimènes, Josette Alviset édition Complexe 2001 p.47 {{ISBN|2-87027-864-0}} Marya Freund was the mother of bass singer Doda Conrad.
References
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Sources
- Alain Paris Dictionnaire des interprètes Bouquins/Robert Laffont 1990 (p. 382) {{ISBN|2-221-06660-X}}
External links
- [http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095835405 Marya Freund] on Oxford reference
- [http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20099 Marya Freund papers] (the singer's personal papers) in the [http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa/music-division Music Division] of [http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]
- [http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/musdico/Freund/167733 Marya Freund] on Encyclopédie Larousee
- [https://musicalgeography.org/2015/09/27/bits-and-pieces-researching-the-life-of-marya-freund/ Bits and Pieces: Researching the Life of Marya Freund] on musicalgeography.org
- [http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/flstud_gallery/7845/ Marya Freund 1876-1966 Polish-born French Inscribed: Sovenir of Marya Freund and the opera] on Scholar commons
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/jacques-emile-blanche/portrait-de-la-cantatrice-marya-freund-et-de-ses-fg3T8ieZfI-jZ3RmycdVkw2 Portrait de la cantatrice Marya Freund et de ses enfants Stefan Freund, et le futur Doda Conrad, 1913] on Artnet
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Category:Musicians from Wrocław
Category:French people of Polish-Jewish descent