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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
German singer (soprano) Date of Birth: 09.12.1915 Country: Germany |
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- Biography of Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
- Early Career
- International Recognition
- Later Years
Biography of Elizabeth Schwarzkopf
Early Life and EducationElizabeth Schwarzkopf was born on December 9, 1915, in the Polish town of Jarocin, near Poznan.
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From a young age, she had a passion for music and participated in small productions in the rural school near Legnica, another Polish town. Her father, a teacher of Greek and Latin, was her inspiration and encouraged her love for music.
She even performed all the female roles in a student-composed opera. It was clear that becoming an artist was her life goal. Elizabeth moved to Berlin and enrolled in the prestigious Hochschule für Musik, which was considered the most reputable music school in Germany at the time.
She was accepted into the class of the renowned singer Lula Mys-Gmeiner, who initially believed she had a mezzo-so