Georgina Schubert

Georgina (or Georgine) Schubert (28 October 1840 - 26 December 1878) was a German coloratura soprano and lieder composer who toured throughout Europe.^[1][2]

Life

Schubert was born in Dresden to violinist and composer Francois Schubert and his wife, soprano Maschinka Schubert.^[3][4][5] Her maternal grandparents were also musicians: Kapellmeister Georg Abraham Schneider and his wife, Dresden Court Opera singer Caroline Portmann. Schubert’s first teacher was her mother.^[2] She later studied with Jenny Lind and Manuel Garcia.^[6]

Schubert sang at major venues in England (Alexandra Palace and Grosvenor House).^[7][8][9] She appeared at the Lyric Theater in Paris, and at venues in the Netherlands and throughout Europe.^[10][11] She sang the role of Dinorah in Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le Pardon de Ploermel more than 30 times.^[12]

Compositions

Schubert composed at least 12 lieder:

• “Ave Maria” (text by Anonymous)^[13]
• “Barcarole” (text by Carlo Pepoli)^[13]
• “Der Muschel gleichen meine Leider” (text by Karl Egon Ebert)^[13]
• “Der traumende See” (text by Julius Mosen)^[13]
• “Die Heimath” (text by Anonymous)^[13]
• “Gondoliera” (text by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi as Pietro Metastasio)^[13]
• “Ich mocht’ ein Lied dir singen” (text by H. Weisser)^[13]
• “L’ame d’un ange” (text by Theodore Faullin de Banville)^[13]
• “Romance” (text by Anonymous)^[13]
• “Romanza” (text by Raniero de’ Calzabigi)^[13]
• “Serenade” (text by Anonymous)^[13]
• “Wiegenlied” (text by Melchior von Diepenbrock)^[13]

References