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    Henriette Sontag, born Gertrude Walpurgis Sontag, and, after her marriage, entitled Henriette, Countess Rossi (3 January 1806 – 17 June 1854), was a German...
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  • host Frederick Sontag (1924–2009) American author and educator George Contant Sontag (1864–unknown), American outlaw Henriette Sontag (1806–1854), German...
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    parts were sung by two famous young singers: Henriette Sontag and Caroline Unger. German soprano Henriette Sontag was 18 years old when Beethoven personally...
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    Henriette Sontag and Niccolò Paganini. Detail of Parade on Opernplatz in 1822 by Franz Krüger...
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  • William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (d. 1857) 1806 – Henriette Sontag, German soprano and actress (d. 1854) 1810 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie...
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    was talented enough to qualify for lessons from the famous soprano Henriette Sontag. On 28 January 1844, Alexandra married Prince Frederick William of...
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    Jenny Lind, known as "the Swedish Nightingale", and Ede Reményi 1852: Henriette Sontag and Adelina Patti 1853 and 1856: William Makepeace Thackeray, lectures...
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    Wilhelmj was born in Usingen and was considered a child prodigy; when Henriette Sontag heard him in 1852 at seven years old, she said, "You will be the German...
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  • polka with variations, is said to have been a particular favorite of Henriette Sontag. 1840 – Rosmunda 1851 – Le tre nozze 1861 – La voix humaine Giulio...
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    association with leading musicians including the sopranos Giuditta Pasta and Henriette Sontag, the cellist Auguste Franchomme and the violinist Lambert Massart,...
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  • "Grand Concerto Militaire", Op. 43 Étienne Méhul – Uthal January 3 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (d. 1854) January 27 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, "the...
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    1823 King Louis VI bass Joseph Seipelt Euryanthe of Savoy soprano Henriette Sontag Eglantine von Puiset soprano Therese Grünbaum Adolar, Count of Nevers...
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  • actor Franz Sontag, and had two daughters with him, Henriette and Nina, both of whom later also went to the stage. Their son Karl Sontag became an actor...
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    dismissed from the Theater because of an ongoing dispute with singer Henriette Sontag. After that, he tried to support himself as a free-lance artist. In...
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    Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonín Dvořák, Henriette Sontag, Clara Morris, Helena Modjeska, Charles Gounod's Ave Maria, Gaetano...
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    frequently in New York, the role of Marie being a favorite with Jenny Lind, Henriette Sontag, Pauline Lucca, Anna Thillon and Adelina Patti. First given in England...
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  • 1786) May 31 – Vatroslav Lisinski, composer (born 1819) June 17 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (born 1806) (cholera) July 14 – Louis-Pierre Norblin...
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    the Théâtre-Italien to recruit singers, including Maria Malibran, Henriette Sontag, Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni, Filippo Galli, Luigi Lablache, Antonio...
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    playwright Kurt Schall challenged him to a duel, and a satirical poem about Henriette Sontag in the Spenerschen Zeitung even led to a short term of imprisonment...
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    virtuoso sopranos, particularly in the 19th century. It was sung by Henriette Sontag in many of her American concerts, although one contemporary New York...
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    L'esule di Roma, Parisina, Pia de' Tolomei, and Belisario. Next to Henriette Sontag, Ronzi was considered the best Donna Anna and the best Norma after...
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    Imperial years, among others the Russian royal family, famous soprano Henriette Sontag and composer Alexei Lvov. From 1927 to 1940 it was used by the Estonian...
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    made the acquaintance of Henriette Sontag, who encouraged Ward to study singing. When the Ward family returned to Europe, Sontag gave Geneviève a letter...
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    New England. They appeared for five or six years with Jenny Lind, Henriette Sontag, Ole Bull, Sigismund Thalberg, Alfred Jaëll, Camilla Urso, and other...
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    1877, a street in Margareten was named the Stöbergasse in his honor. Henriette Sontag Johann Nepomuk Hummel Napoleon II on his deathbed Johann Fischbach...
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    Vienna premier of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824 included soprano Henriette Sontag, contralto Caroline Unger, tenor Anton Haizinger, and pianist Conradin...
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    Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, and he relates a story about Henriette Sontag when she first arrived in Vienna as a young student: Pixis says that...
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    Schröder-Devrient, German soprano who was noted for her sentimentality Henriette Sontag, German soprano of whom Rossini said she had the purest voice[citation...
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    premieres and featured international stars like the German soprano Henriette Sontag and the Italian Erminia Frezzolini (1818–1884). In 1859 the Théâtre...
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    Alary's Le tre nozze, with Henriette Sontag and Lablache, preceded the more significant L'enfant prodigue of Auber with Sontag, Massol and Coletti. He was...
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