Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Malvina (née Garrigues)

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Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Malvina (née Garrigues)

Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Malvina (née Garrigues), esteemed German soprano; b. Copenhagen, Dec. 7, 1825; d. Karlsruhe, Feb. 8, 1904. She studied with Garcia in Paris, making her operatic debut in Robert le diable in Breslau (1841), and singing there until 1849. After appearances in Coburg, Gotha, and Hamburg, she joined the Karlsruhe Opera in 1854. Wagner chose her to create the role of Isolde in Tristan und Isolde (Munich, June 10, 1865), with her husband, Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, singing Tristan. Following his untimely death at the age of 29, she quit the operatic stage and became a convert to spiritualism. She publ, a vol. of poems by her husband and herself in 1867.

Bibliography

C. Garrigues, Ein ideales Sängerpaar: Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld und M. S.v.C. (Copenhagen, 1937).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

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