Margarete Dessoff Album

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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


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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)


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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).


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Margarete Dessoff, pre/vor 1917 (Photo/Foto: UB Frankfurt am Main)


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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)


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Margarete Dessoff, Berlin 1917
(Foto privat / private photo)

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An immigration document for Margarete Dessoff in New York, 1933

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