46 Notable alumni of
State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
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The State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart is 984th in the world, 344th in Europe, and 42nd in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 46 notable alumni from the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Paul Klee
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- graphic artistpainterdraftspersonprintmakeruniversity teacher
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Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting was for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in Germany. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
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Harald Schmidt
- Enrolled in the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
- Studied in 1978-1981
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- musicianjournalisttelevision presenterstage actoractor
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Harald Franz Schmidt is a German actor, comedian, television presenter and writer best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows.
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Ulrich Tukur
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- film actormusicianstage actorsinger
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Ulrich Tukur is a German actor and musician. He is known for his roles in Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Steven Soderbergh's Solaris, the docudrama North Face based on the 1936 Eiger climbing disaster in Switzerland, and as Wilhelm Uhde in Martin Provost's biopic Séraphine.
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Anneke Kim Sarnau
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- actor
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Anneke Kim Sarnau is a German theater and movie actress living in Berlin.
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Ulrich Noethen
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Ulrich Noethen is a German actor who has appeared in many movies and TV films.
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Jasmin Tabatabai
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- musiciansingerstage actorvoice actorcomposer
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Jasmin Tabatabai (Persian: یاسمین طباطبائی [jɒːsˈmiːn tæbɒːtæbɒːˈʔiː]; born 8 June 1967 in Tehran, Iran, is a German actress and singer.
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Judy Winter
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- film actorvoice actorstage actoractor
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Judy Winter is a German actress. She resides in Berlin.
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Maryja Kaleśnikava
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- politician
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Maria Kalesnikava is a Belarusian professional flutist and political activist. In 2020, she headed Viktar Babaryka's electoral campaign during the presidential elections of 2020 in Belarus. Kalesnikava represented the united campaign of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, then she became a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council formed during the 2020 Belarusian protests in opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. She is also a founder of the 'Razam' political party.
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Ursula Cantieni
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- actoruniversity teacher
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Ursula Cantieni was a Swiss-German actress known for her role on Die Fallers – Die SWR Schwarzwaldserie.
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Victor Herbert
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- screenwritercomposercellistconductor
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Victor August Herbert was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I. He was also prominent among the Tin Pan Alley composers and was later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of works by other composers, among other music.
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Helmut Lachenmann
- Enrolled in the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
- Studied in 1955-1958
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- composeruniversity teacher
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Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann is a German composer of contemporary classical music. Associated with the "instrumental musique concrète" style, Lachenmann is alongside Wolfgang Rihm as among the leading German composers of his time.
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Timothy Peach
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- stage actorfilm actorvoice actor
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Timothy Peach is a British / German actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1986.
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Helmuth Rilling
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- organistchoir directorconductorcomposerKirchenmusikdirektor
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Helmuth Rilling is a German choral conductor and an academic teacher. He is the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei (1954), the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (1965), the Oregon Bach Festival (1970), the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart (1981) and other Bach Academies worldwide, as well as the "Festival Ensemble Stuttgart" (2001) and the "Junges Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble" (2011). He taught choral conducting at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule from 1965 to 1989 and led the Frankfurter Kantorei from 1969 to 1982.
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Iveta Apkalna
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- organistpianist
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Iveta Apkalna is a Latvian organist and pianist.
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Jacqueline Macaulay
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- actorfilm actor
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Jacqueline Macaulay is an English actress who mainly works in Germany.
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Marlis Petersen
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- opera singermusician
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Marlis Petersen is a German operatic coloratura soprano.
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Ernest Torrence
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- film actorstage actorsingeractor
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Ernest Torrence was a Scottish film character actor who appeared in many Hollywood films, including Broken Chains (1922) with Colleen Moore, Mantrap (1926) with Clara Bow and Fighting Caravans (1931) with Gary Cooper and Lili Damita. A towering (6' 4") figure, Torrence frequently played cold-eyed and imposing villains.
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Antônio Meneses
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- musicianclassical cellistmusic educatorsoloistchamber musician
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Antônio Jeronimo de Meneses Neto was a Brazilian cellist and an academic teacher based in Switzerland. Known professionally as Antônio Meneses, he won the first prize and gold medal at the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He was the cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio from 1998 to 2008.
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Nadja Michael
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- musicianopera singerperforming artist
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Nadja Michael is a German opera singer with an active international career singing leading soprano roles. Her mother's great-aunt was the soprano Erna Sack.
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Agnes Lawrence Pelton
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- artistpaintervisual artist
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Agnes Lawrence Pelton was a modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes and still lifes. Pelton's work evolved through at least three distinct themes: her early "Imaginative Paintings," art of the American Southwest people and landscape, and abstract art that reflected her spiritual beliefs. She was a first cousin of American sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser.
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Karl Münchinger
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- composerconductor
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Karl Münchinger was a German conductor of European classical music. He helped to revive the now-ubiquitous Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, through recording it with his Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1960. (Jean-François Paillard made a rival, and also very popular, recording of the same piece at around the same time.) Münchinger is also noted for restoring baroque traditions to the interpretation of Bach's oeuvre, his greatest musical love — moderate-sized forces, judicious ornamentation, and rhythmic sprightliness, though not on "period instruments".
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Antonio Janigro
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- cellistmusic educatorconductor
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Antonio Janigro was an Italian cellist and conductor.
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Harry Plunket Greene
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- opera singer
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Harry Plunket Greene was an Irish baritone who was most famous in the formal concert and oratorio repertoire. He wrote and lectured on his art, and was active in the field of musical competitions and examinations. He also wrote Where the Bright Waters Meet (1924) a book about fly fishing.
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Adelaide Casely-Hayford
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- women's rights activisteducatorlawyerwriterautobiographer
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Adelaide Casely-Hayford MBE, was a Sierra Leone Creole advocate, activist of cultural nationalism, teacher, fiction writer, and feminist. Her commitment to public service led her to improving the conditions of black men and women. She played an important role as an advocate of women's education in Sierra Leone to popularize Pan-Africanist and feminist politics in the early 1900s. In 1923, she founded a Girls' Vocational and Training School in Freetown to instil cultural and racial pride for Sierra Leoneans under colonial rule. In 1925, she attended a reception in honour of the Prince of Wales where she wore an African attire thereby creating a sensation in pursuit of Sierra Leone national identity and cultural heritage.
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Barry McDaniel
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- opera singer
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Barry McDaniel was an American operatic baritone who spent his career almost exclusively in Germany, including 37 years at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He appeared internationally at major opera houses and festivals, and created roles in several new operas, including Henze's Der junge Lord, Nabokov's Love's Labour's Lost, and Reimann's Melusine. He was also a celebrated concert singer and recitalist, focused on German Lied and French mélodie. He was the first singer of Wilhelm Killmayer's song cycle Tre Canti di Leopardi. He recorded both operatic and concert repertory.
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Frieder Bernius
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- university teacherchoir directorconductor
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Frieder Bernius is a German conductor, the founder and director of the chamber choir Kammerchor Stuttgart, founded in 1968. They became leaders for historically informed performances. He founded the Stuttgart festival of Baroque music, "Internationale Festtage Alter Musik", in 1987, and is a recipient of the Edison Award (1990), Diapason d'Or (1990) and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1993).
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Werner Haas
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- pianist
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Werner Haas was a German classical pianist. He was known for his performances of early 20th century compositions, particularly those of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. He had a wide repertoire that also included works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Kabalevsky, and the complete works for piano and orchestra by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Lauren Newton
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- university teacherjazz musiciansingeractor
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Lauren Amber Newton is an avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical singer and founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra.
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Hermann Suter
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- composerconductor
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Hermann Suter was a Swiss composer and conductor.
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Peter Schindler
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- music arrangerlibrettistcomposerjazz musicianpianist
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Peter Schindler is a German composer, pianist, keyboardist, organist and author, whose prime special field is musical theatre.
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Percy Goetschius
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- composermusicologistmusic educator
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Percy Goetschius was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher who won international fame in the teaching of composition and music theory.
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Marta Fuchs
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- opera singer
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Marta Fuchs was a German concert and operatic dramatic soprano.
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Swan Hennessy
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- composer
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Edward Swan Hennessy was an Irish-American composer and pianist who lived much of his life in Paris. In his pre-War piano music, he excelled as a miniaturist in descriptive, programmatic music. After joining a group of Breton composers, he developed a reputation as a "Celtic" composer, drawing on his Irish heritage, and writing in a style that was unique in a French as well as an Irish context. Even though he has been almost forgotten after 1950, his music was applauded by contemporary French music critics including Henri Collet, Louis Vuillemin, Émile Vuillermoz and Lucien Chevaillier. In some works, he used jazz elements and took inspiration from funfairs and industrial noise, anticipating trends associated with the group of "Les Six".
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Reinhard Febel
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- composermusic educatoruniversity teachermusic theoristmusicologist
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Reinhard Febel is a German composer, notable for his operas. He is also a music theorist and a university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Mozarteum.
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Peter Lehel
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- tárogató playermusic arrangerjazz musicianjazz saxophonistcomposer
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Peter Lehel is a German jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Siglind Bruhn
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- literary scholarpianistmusicologistmusic educator
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Siglind Bruhn is a German musicologist, writer and concert pianist.
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Edgar Stillman Kelley
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- music criticcomposerconductorjournalist
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Edgar Stillman Kelley was an American composer, conductor, teacher, and writer on music. He is sometimes associated with the Indianist movement in American music.
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Trude Eipperle
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- opera singer
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Trude Eipperle was a German operatic soprano.
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Huck Hodge
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- university teachercomposeracademicprofessor of music composition
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Huck Hodge is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Adolf Ruthardt
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- composerpianist
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Adolf Ruthardt was a German piano teacher, composer and music editor.
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Koka Nikoladze
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- composer
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Koka Nikoladze is a Georgian composer and sound artist based in Europe. He studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Musikhochschule Stuttgart and Norwegian Academy of Music. He studied composition with Zurab Nadarejshvili, Marco Stroppa and violin with Ernst Arakelov.
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Luise Jaide
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- opera singer
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Luise Jaide was a German operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active career during the latter half of the 19th century. Among her signature roles were Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il trovatore, Frau Reich in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Idamante in Idomeneo, Irmentraud in Der Waffenschmied, and Mary in The Flying Dutchman. She is best remembered today for playing several roles in the first complete presentation of Richard Wagner's The Ring Cycle at the very first Bayreuth Festival in 1876.
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Louis Coerne
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- composer
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Louis Adolphe Coerne was an American composer and music educator.
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Elisabeth Leisinger
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- opera singer
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Elisabeth Leisinger was a German dramatic soprano. Her mother initially opposed her wish for a singing career, but after her father's death she relented. She studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory and later with Pauline Viardot in Paris. She became a member of the Berlin Court Opera in 1884 and until 1894 after performing shows in Stuttgart. Her debut was as Rosina in The Barber of Seville. She unsuccessfully performed at the Paris Opera in 1886, and by performing broke her contract with the Berlin Court Opera. After later marrying Dr. Müllberger in Esslingen, she retired from the stage.
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Ewandro Stenzowski
- Enrolled in the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
- 2011-2013 graduated with Master of Music
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- opera singer
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Ewandro Stenzowski is a Brazilian operatic tenor and veteran of the Brazilian Marine Corps. He appeared in concerts and leading tenor roles in South America and Europe.
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Eugen Haile
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- composer
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Eugen Haile was a German-American composer, singer, and accompanist, primarily known for his songs. In his lifetime, it was claimed that he was one of the "truly inspired melodists, a lineal descendent of the great lyricists, Schubert, Schumann, Franz and Brahms."
