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Maria Theresia Löw

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Died
  
1885, Berlin, Germany

Children
  
Lilli Lehmann

Maria Theresia Löw

Maria Theresia Löw (27 March 1809 – 30 December 1885) was a German operatic soprano and harpist. She was born in Heidelberg in south west of Germany.

After her musical education in Frankfurt at Heinrich Anton Föppel, a childhood friend of Richard Wagner's first appearances at the Court Theatre in Kassel under the conductor and composer Louis Spohr. She married the heldentenor Karl-August Lehmann and became the mother of Lilli Lehmann and Marie Lehmann, who should both later also be opera singers. After separating from her husband about 1853 and they took care of vocal training. In addition to her daughters, she was responsible for more artists of her era, including State Opera in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), where she lived in 1853. Her uncle (father of the brother) Johannes Löw was knighted for Bavarian government (1771–1833) from Speyer and she has a sister Amalie Löw, who was the daughter of Johannes Löw (1811–1879) and politician Karl Theodor von Wrede both had married. She died on 30 December 1885 at the age of 86 in Berlin

Publications

  • Lilli Lehmann: Meine Gesangskunst. Berlin, 1902.
  • Lilli Lehmann: Main Leben. Leizpig 1913, Neudruck 1977.
  • References

    Maria Theresia Löw Wikipedia