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EVA LIEBENBERG (STETTIN, POMERANIA, GERMANY, FEBRUARY 15, 1890 – HILVERSUM, NOORD-HOLLAND, NETHERLANDS, NOVEMBER 18, 1971)

 

 

 

 

Her real name was Gertrud Lina Hedwig Liebenberg. She studied singing with Hugo Rasch in Berlin and made her debut at the Thalia Theater in Berlin during the 1920–21 season. From 1921 to 1923, she was engaged at the Coburg State Theater. She then settled in Berlin, where she became primarily known as a distinguished concert and oratorio contralto, enjoying considerable success both in Germany and abroad.

In 1933, she performed Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody in a concert at La Scala in Milan. She also appeared as a guest artist, notably as Erda in Wagner’s Ring cycle — at the Bayreuth Festival (1927–28), the Dresden State Opera (1934), in Königsberg (1936), in Berlin (1934–38), and again in Cologne (1940). Despite her stage appearances, concert work remained the central focus of her career.

Because of her Jewish heritage, she faced severe difficulties in Germany after 1933 and eventually emigrated to the Netherlands. There she survived the persecution of Jews following the occupation in 1940 and worked as a teacher in Hilversum from 1947 onwards.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Ave Maria (Gounod) A523 11030-I Telefunken, Berlin 1930-06-06

Carmen (Bizet) Querschnitt, pt 1 (w. Frind, Roswaenge & Guttmann) E1158 018485 Telefunken, Berlin 1932-06-18

Carmen (Bizet) Querschnitt, pt 2 (w. Frind, Roswaenge & Guttmann) E1158 018486 Telefunken, Berlin 1932-06-18

Die Allmacht (Schubert) E1443 018730-IV Telefunken, Berlin 1933

Die Ehre Gottes in der Natur (Beethoven) E1443 018729-III Telefunken, Berlin 1933

Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach) Querschnitt durch Hoffmanns Erzählungen zweiter Teil (w. Stellakis, Reinmar & Ranczak) E1238 018732 Telefunken, Berlin

Orfeo (Gluck) Ach, ich habe sie verloren F215 30332 Telefunken, Berlin 1929-10-08

Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns) Die Sonne sie lachte F214 30327 Telefunken, Berlin 1929-10-07

Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns) Sieh mein Herz F214 30326 Telefunken, Berlin 1929-10-07

Sapphische Ode (Brahms); Der Schmied (Brahms) SK1341 018872 Telefunken, Berlin 1933-01-16

Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Einsam wachend SK1163 018509 Telefunken, Berlin 1932-06-28

Trovatore (Verdi) Lodernde Flammen F215 30331 Telefunken, Berlin 1929-10-08

Von ewiger Liebe (Brahms) SK1341 018871 Telefunken, Berlin 1933-01-16

Xerxes (Händel) Largo A523 11029 Telefunken, Berlin 1930-06-06