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Born | September 1889 Brooklyn, New York |
Occupation | Soprano singer |
Adelaide L. Fischer Federlein (born September 1889 – died after April 1950) was an American soprano singer, based in New York.
Fischer was from Brooklyn, [1] the daughter of Otto Fischer and Adelaide Freitag Fischer. [2] [3] Her brother, Otto L. Fischer, was a pianist, educator, composer who was based in Wichita, Kansas in adulthood. [4] [5] [6]
Fischer, "a charming light soprano", [7] [8] sang in recitals and churches, [9] mostly in the mid-1910s [10] and 1920s, [11] [12] including appearances at New York's Aeolian Hall. [8] [13] [14] In 1915, she joined Florence Hinkle and Inez Barbour Hadley as soprano soloists in a performance of a Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. [15] [16] She toured in the southern United States in 1918. [17] During World War I she sang for the troops and gave benefit concerts, accompanied by her husband. [18] In 1921, she gave a joint recital with Mario Laurenti at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. [19] [20]
Fischer made a number of recordings in 1914 and 1917, mostly for the Edison label. [21] Linn Seiler and Karl Ino dedicated a song, "Butterflies" (1916), to Fischer. [22]
She was a church soloist and taught music later in her life, in New York City. [23]
Fischer married organist and composer Gottfried Harrison Federlein in 1918. [4] [24] They had a daughter, Norma Adelaide, born in 1919; they divorced in the 1920s, and he remarried. [25] She lived with her brother in Brooklyn in her later years, and survived him when he died in 1950. [26]
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Adelaide Fischer | |
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![]() Adelaide Fischer, from a 1915 publication | |
Born | September 1889 Brooklyn, New York |
Occupation | Soprano singer |
Adelaide L. Fischer Federlein (born September 1889 – died after April 1950) was an American soprano singer, based in New York.
Fischer was from Brooklyn, [1] the daughter of Otto Fischer and Adelaide Freitag Fischer. [2] [3] Her brother, Otto L. Fischer, was a pianist, educator, composer who was based in Wichita, Kansas in adulthood. [4] [5] [6]
Fischer, "a charming light soprano", [7] [8] sang in recitals and churches, [9] mostly in the mid-1910s [10] and 1920s, [11] [12] including appearances at New York's Aeolian Hall. [8] [13] [14] In 1915, she joined Florence Hinkle and Inez Barbour Hadley as soprano soloists in a performance of a Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. [15] [16] She toured in the southern United States in 1918. [17] During World War I she sang for the troops and gave benefit concerts, accompanied by her husband. [18] In 1921, she gave a joint recital with Mario Laurenti at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. [19] [20]
Fischer made a number of recordings in 1914 and 1917, mostly for the Edison label. [21] Linn Seiler and Karl Ino dedicated a song, "Butterflies" (1916), to Fischer. [22]
She was a church soloist and taught music later in her life, in New York City. [23]
Fischer married organist and composer Gottfried Harrison Federlein in 1918. [4] [24] They had a daughter, Norma Adelaide, born in 1919; they divorced in the 1920s, and he remarried. [25] She lived with her brother in Brooklyn in her later years, and survived him when he died in 1950. [26]
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