Marya Freund(12 December 1876 – 21 May 1966) was a German Empire Frenchsoprano.
Marya Freund | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 December 1876 |
| Died | 21 May 1966(aged 89) Paris |
| Occupation | Soprano operatic singer |
Career
editShe studied violin withPablo de Sarasate,then singing with Henri Criticos and Raymond Zur Mühlen. In 1913 she took part in the creation ofArnold Schönberg'sGurreliederin Vienna and became the appointed interpreter of thePierrot lunaire.Her repertoire, especially that of the 20th, includedGustav Mahler,Gabriel Fauré,Claude Debussy,Maurice Ravel,Igor Stravinsky,Francis Poulenc,Karol Szymanowski.She worked within the circle of Satie, Cocteau and Les Six, appearing in the premiere of Satie's Socrate in 1920.
In the 1920s, she began a career as a teacher and gave some advice toGermaine Lubin.Jewish,[1]she was arrested in February 1944 inoccupied France.On the intervention ofAlfred Cortot,she was released from theDrancy internment campand transferred to theRothschild hospital.[2]Marya Freund was the mother of bass singerDoda Conrad.
Sources
edit- Alain ParisDictionnaire des interprètesBouquins/Robert Laffont1990 (p. 382)ISBN2-221-06660-X
References
edit- ^"une cantatrice à Mont Saint Sulpice".jean-louis-comperat.e-monsite.com.Archived fromthe originalon 2018-12-30.
- ^la vie musicale sous Vichy,Myriam Chimènes, Josette Alviset édition Complexe 2001 p.47ISBN2-87027-864-0
External links
edit- Marya Freundon Oxford reference
- Marya Freund papers(the singer's personal papers) in theMusic DivisionofThe New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Marya Freundon Encyclopédie Larousee
- Bits and Pieces: Researching the Life of Marya Freundon musicalgeography.org
- Marya Freund 1876-1966 Polish-born French Inscribed: Sovenir of Marya Freund and the operaon Scholar commons
- Portrait de la cantatrice Marya Freund et de ses enfants Stefan Freund, et le futur Doda Conrad, 1913onArtnet
