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American soprano Julia Heinrich (1880-1919)
A May Morning ~ F. E. Weatherly (lyricist); Luigi Denza (composer)
At Parting ~ Frederick Peterson (lyricist); James H. Rogers (composer)
Recorded: December 23, 1916
American soprano Julia Heinrich (1880-1919): From Alabama, daughter of the well-known German baritone Max Heinrich (1851-1916), she studied first with her father, then worked as a music teacher in a college. She sang with her father in Montreal in 1899 and then went to Europe and sang in Eberfeld house as a guest in Amsterdam, as Sieglinde in Die Walkure (1913). She was a member of the Hamburg Opera (1913-1915) and then was called to the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut as Gutrune in Gotterdammerung; however, she was given no other important roles there. She undertook concert tours in 1916 and appeared as an oratorio singer. In 1919, in the small Louisiana town of Hammond, she made the so-called "direct comparison tests," better known as "Tone Tests", in which she sang and her Edison discs were played at the same time. It was in Hammond where she was killed instantly after being struck by a heavy baggage cart that had rolled off the railway station platform, colliding with an arriving engine. The pianist Lucille Colette, standing next to her, was uninjured. Julia Heinrich published 10 recordings, all for Edison. Due to anti-German sentiment during WWI, Heinrich altered her surname to Henry. Her father was mentor to James Gibbons Huneker (1857-1921), renowned music critic and author. (Sources: The Kutsch & Riemens Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers - Chilton Book Company - 1969 / The Record of Singing by Michael Scott - Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. - 1979 / James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts by Arnold T. Schwab - 1963 / The New Orleans Times-Picayune / The New York Times / Vertical-Cut Cylinders and Discs by Victor Girard & Harold M. Barnes - British institute of Recorded Sound - 1971 / Discography of American Historical Recordings)
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American soprano Julia Heinrich (1880-1919)
A May Morning ~ F. E. Weatherly (lyricist); Luigi Denza (composer)
At Parting ~ Frederick Peterson (lyricist); James H. Rogers (composer)
Recorded: December 23, 1916
American soprano Julia Heinrich (1880-1919): From Alabama, daughter of the well-known German baritone Max Heinrich (1851-1916), she studied first with her father, then worked as a music teacher in a college. She sang with her father in Montreal in 1899 and then went to Europe and sang in Eberfeld house as a guest in Amsterdam, as Sieglinde in Die Walkure (1913). She was a member of the Hamburg Opera (1913-1915) and then was called to the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut as Gutrune in Gotterdammerung; however, she was given no other important roles there. She undertook concert tours in 1916 and appeared as an oratorio singer. In 1919, in the small Louisiana town of Hammond, she made the so-called "direct comparison tests," better known as "Tone Tests", in which she sang and her Edison discs were played at the same time. It was in Hammond where she was killed instantly after being struck by a heavy baggage cart that had rolled off the railway station platform, colliding with an arriving engine. The pianist Lucille Colette, standing next to her, was uninjured. Julia Heinrich published 10 recordings, all for Edison. Due to anti-German sentiment during WWI, Heinrich altered her surname to Henry. Her father was mentor to James Gibbons Huneker (1857-1921), renowned music critic and author. (Sources: The Kutsch & Riemens Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers - Chilton Book Company - 1969 / The Record of Singing by Michael Scott - Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. - 1979 / James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts by Arnold T. Schwab - 1963 / The New Orleans Times-Picayune / The New York Times / Vertical-Cut Cylinders and Discs by Victor Girard & Harold M. Barnes - British institute of Recorded Sound - 1971 / Discography of American Historical Recordings)
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