Pauline Horson

Pauline Horson-Brügelmann (née Dyckhoff; 25 March 1858 – 28 January 1918) was a German operatic soprano.

Life

Born in Beckum, Kingdom of Prussia as Pauline Dyckhoff, she studied classical singing with Karl Schneider in Cologne and made her debut in 1875 at the court theatre in Sondershausen. The following year, following a successful guest performance in Weimar, she came to the Hoftheater Weimar, where she finally joined the Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. She later was appointed Kammersängerin and remained in the ensemble until 1886.

That same year she married the chemist Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann (born 24 April 1849, Ratingen - died 18 November 1920, Bad Kissingen), a scion of the family that built Textilfabrik Cromford.^[1]

At the premiere of Wagner's Parsifal on 26 July 1882 in Bayreuth under the direction of Hermann Levi she sang one of the Zaubermädchen. Further solos as Zaubermädchen followed in 1883 and 1884 and she was known for her interpretations of Mozart's lyrical and coloratura opera arias. She gave concerts and guest performances at the Bayreuth Festival, at the court opera houses of Berlin, Semperoper, Hanover, Leipzig and the Kroll-Opera in Berlin.

Having become almost completely deaf, she died in 1918 in Bonn at the age of 59 from pneumonia. In her will she left an amount of 150,000 Marks in cash from the sale of a house in Bonn and 17 Cologne-Munich railway premium tickets worth 5,100 Marks for the care and design of the Bad Kissinger Ballinghain, a garden left by the Kissingen spa doctor Franz Anton von Balling [de]. She and her husband stayed there several times.^[2]

References

^ Pauline Hirson profile, Großes Sängerlexikon (pg. 2146). Accessed 5 October 2022.
^ On the memorial plaque, which was not renewed until 2011 on the Bad Kissingen stone, there is the inscription requested by Pauline Horson: Erected in memory of two loyal friends of the town of Bad Kissingen and the valley of the Saale with its springs, mountains, meadows and forests, namely the wife Pauline Horson-Brügelmann, born on 25 March 1853 in Beckum in Westphalia, died in Bonn on the Rhine on 28 March 1853. She was a member of the Grand Ducal Saxon Chamber Singer, a member of the Grand Ducal Court Theatre in Weimar and of Richard Wagner's Bühnen-Weihe-Festspiele in 1882, 1883 and 1884, where she created the First Flower Girl in Parsifal under the master's direction and also performed and sang to great acclaim in 1883 and 1884, as well as of Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann, born in Cromford near Düsseldorf on 24th January 1918. April 1849, Doctor of Natural Sciences at the University of Tübingen.

External links

Horson Pauline on Operissimo.
Literature by and about Pauline Horson in the German National Library catalogue

[1] Pauline Hirson profile, Großes Sängerlexikon (pg. 2146). Accessed 5 October 2022.

[2] On the memorial plaque, which was not renewed until 2011 on the Bad Kissingen stone, there is the inscription requested by Pauline Horson: Erected in memory of two loyal friends of the town of Bad Kissingen and the valley of the Saale with its springs, mountains, meadows and forests, namely the wife Pauline Horson-Brügelmann, born on 25 March 1853 in Beckum in Westphalia, died in Bonn on the Rhine on 28 March 1853. She was a member of the Grand Ducal Saxon Chamber Singer, a member of the Grand Ducal Court Theatre in Weimar and of Richard Wagner's Bühnen-Weihe-Festspiele in 1882, 1883 and 1884, where she created the First Flower Girl in Parsifal under the master's direction and also performed and sang to great acclaim in 1883 and 1884, as well as of Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann, born in Cromford near Düsseldorf on 24th January 1918. April 1849, Doctor of Natural Sciences at the University of Tübingen.

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Life

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References

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