Margarete Dessoff Album
Photos / Fotos
Margarete Dessoffs Vater: Otto
Dessoff (1835 - 1892),
Dirigent und Komponist (Foto: UB Frankfurt am Main)
Margarete Dessoff's father: Otto
Dessoff (1835 - 1892), conductor
und composer (Photo: UB Frankfurt am Main)
Erster Kapellmeister an der
Oper Frankfurt / First conductor of the Frankfurt Opera House
Margarete Dessoffs Mutter: Friederike
Rosalie Dessoff, geb. Meisinger (1841 - 1907)
Margarete Dessoff's Mother: Friederike Rosalie Dessoff,
née Meisinger (1841 - 1907)
Schauspielerin und Sängerin
/ Actress and Singer (Foto: Privatsammlung / private photo)
Margarete
Dessoffs Gesanglehrerin: Jenny
Hahn (1855-1920),
Sängerin, hier mit ihrem Lehrer Julius Stockhausen
(1826-1906) (Foto: UB Frankfurt/Main)
Julius Stockhausen erhielt seine Gesangsausbildung bei Manuel Patricio
Rodríguez García am Konservatorium in Paris.
Stockhausen sang 1848 den Elijah
in Basel und wurde 1857 Mitglied der Komischen Oper in
Paris. Von 1862 bis 1867 war er Dirigent der Hamburger Philharmonischen
Konzerte und an der Singakademie
in Hamburg (1862-67) und von 1874 bis 1878 des Stern'schen Gesangsvereins
in Berlin.
Von 1878 bis 1880 und von 1883 bis 1884 war er Lehrer am Hoch'schen
Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main.
Margarete Dessoffs voice teacher: Jenny
Hahn (1855-1920),
Sängerin, with her own teacher Julius Stockhausen
(1826-1906)
(Photo: UB Frankfurt/Main)
Julius Stockhausen was a German singing master. In 1845 he entered the
Paris Conservatoire, where he studied piano with Hallé and
Stamaty and singing with Manuel García. In 1849 he again
studied
with Garcia in London. He quickly won fame as a remarkable concert
singer. From 1862 to 1869 he resided in Hamburg as conductor of the Philharmonic Society
and Singakademie.
The next five years he spent in Stuttgart as Kammersänger to
the King of Württemberg, then he became conductor of Stern's Gesangverein
at Berlin, where he remained until 1878, being then called to Hoch's Conservatory
at Frankfurt as professor of singing. Differences with Raff, the
director, led to his resignation the following year and the
establishment of his own school, which immediately became world famous.
After Raff's death (1882), Stockhausen returned to the conservatory,
but continued his own school. He wrote an excellent Gesangmethode
(1886), translated into English by his pupil Sophie Löwe (new
edition, 1907).
Margarete Dessoff,
pre/vor 1917 (Photo/Foto: UB Frankfurt am Main)
Der Dessoff'scher
Frauenchor im Großen Saal des Saalbaus,
Frankfurt, ca. 1917 (Foto privat)
The Dessoff'scher
Frauenchor in the large concert hall of the Saalbau in
Frankfurt, ca. 1917 (private photo)
Margarete Dessoff,
Berlin 1917 (Foto privat /
private photo)
An immigration document for Margarete Dessoff in
New York, 1933