Selma Nicklass-Kempner

German soprano

Selma Nicklaß-Kempner, occasionally also Niklas-Kempner, (2 April 1850 – 22 December 1928) was a German operatic soprano and singing teacher.

Life

Born in Breslau, Nicklass-Kempner was a Student of Jenny Meyer (1834–1894) and made her debut as "Amina" in Bellini's La sonnambula at the Berlin Kroll Opera House. She had engagements in Aachen, Augsburg, Berlin (at the Stern Conservatory), Leipzig, Rotterdam and Vienna, where from 1884 she worked as a singing teacher at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde^[1] and gave private lessons to Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864-1945).^[2]

The long list of students speaks for her skills and reputation as a singing teacher.

Nicklass-Kempner died in Berlin at the age of 78. Her grave is located at the Friedhof Wilmersdorf in Berlin.

Her husband, Georg Nicklass, died on 28 May 1893 at the age of 41 in Vienna, Trauerhaus Innere Stadt. ^[3]

Students

Louise von Ehrenstein (1867–1944)
Mary Hagen (1867/1878–1944)
Fanny Opfer (1870–1944)
Ottilie Metzger (1878–1944)
Ida Salden (1878–probably before 1930)
Gertrud Förstel (1880–1950)
Frieda Hempel (1885–1955)
Mathilde Fröhlich

References

^ r.: Hundertjahrfeier des Wiener Konservatoriums. (1817–1917). In: Neue Freie Presse, 6 October 1917, p. 24 (Online at ANNO)Template:ANNO/Maintenance/nfp.
^ Die Gesangslehrerin der Kronprinzessin. In Lars Friedrich: Das Mayerling-Sammelsurium. Kurioses aus 20 Jahren Mayerling-Archiv. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-7063-7, p. 36.
^ Statt jeder besonderen Meldung. (…) Georg Nicklass (…). In: Neue Freie Presse, 29 May 1893, p. 07 (Online at ANNO)Template:ANNO/Maintenance/nfp.