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Gertrud Elisabeth Mara

German opera singer
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Also known as: Gertrud Elisabeth Schmeling
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Née:
Schmeling
Born:
Feb. 23, 1749, Kassel, Landgraviate Hesse-Kassel [Germany]
Died:
Jan. 20, 1833, Revel [now Tallinn], Estonia, Russian Empire (aged 83)
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Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (born Feb. 23, 1749, Kassel, Landgraviate Hesse-Kassel [Germany]—died Jan. 20, 1833, Revel [now Tallinn], Estonia, Russian Empire) was a German soprano of great technical ability, who was one of the few non-Italians of the time to gain a great international reputation. A child prodigy, Schmeling gave violin recitals accompanied by her father, a violin maker, in Vienna and London, where at the age of 10 she played for the queen. At the advice of an attendant at court, she began to study voice under Pietro Paradisi in London. She sang in Johann Hiller’s concerts in Leipzig in ...(100 of 243 words)

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