Emy von Stetten

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Grave of Emy von Stetten at the Kocherstetten cemetory
Memorial plaque for Emy von Stetten in Bayreuth

Emy Freifrau von Stetten (6 April 1898 – 22 February 1980) was a German oratorio, opera and Lied soprano and music teacher at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

Life

Born in Königsberg, Emilie Brode was a daughter of Ellida Wittich and Max Brode,[1] the founder and conductor of the Königsberg Symphony Orchestra. Until her divorce in 1948, she was married [2] to the Austrian painter Norbert von Stetten. The marriage produced two daughters, Ellida (1919-2008) and Brigitte (b. 1920).[3]

During the National Socialist era, she was banned from performing as a "half-Jew", although she emphasised her own National Socialist sentiments and her husband's party membership, and was only given special permits to work as a music teacher. In Herbert Gerigk's and Theophil Stengel's Lexikon der Juden in der Musik her name already appeared in the first edition (1940).[4]

References

  1. ^ Max Brode: Erinnerungen Peter Brode on kultur-in-ostpreussen
  2. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility [de], F XIX 1996, p. 317
  3. ^ Emy von Stetten on Üniversität Hamburg
  4. ^ Eva Weissweiler Ausgemerzt! Das Lexikon der Juden in der Musik und seine mörderischen Folgen. Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2, p. 319

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