Adelaide Fischer Explained

Adelaide Fischer
Birth Date:September 1889
Birth Place: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.

Early life

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]

Career

Fischer, "a charming light soprano",[6] [7] sang in recitals and churches,[8] mostly in the mid-1910s[9] and 1920s,[10] [11] including appearances at New York's Aeolian Hall.[12] [13] 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.[14] [15] She toured in the southern United States in 1918.[16] During World War I she sang for the troops and gave benefit concerts, accompanied by her husband.[17] In 1921, she gave a joint recital with Mario Laurenti at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[18] [19]

Fischer made a number of recordings in 1914 and 1917, mostly for the Edison label.[20] Linn Seiler and Karl Ino dedicated a song, "Butterflies" (1916), to Fischer.[21]

She was a church soloist and taught music later in her life, in New York City.[22]

Personal life

Fischer married organist and composer Gottfried Harrison Federlein in 1918.[23] [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]

Notes and References

  1. January 12, 1915 . Miss Fischer's Recital . The New York Times . 9 . Times Machine.
  2. News: 1925-01-07 . Obituary: Otto Fischer . 8 . The Montclair Times . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1922-05-10 . Adelaide F. Fischer . 3 . The Standard Union . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: Murdock . Victor . 1937-02-16 . Bringing Into Focus with Music the Relation of the Boy and His Dog . 1 . The Wichita Beacon . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1925-10-15 . Piano Instructors of Dozen Counties Plan Organization . 3 . The Wichita Eagle . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1916-02-01 . Two Song Recitals; Miss Adelaide Fischer, Soprano, and Mr. Vivian Gosnell Appear . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-06-21 . 0362-4331.
  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=Mkc0AQAAMAAJ&dq=Musical%20America&pg=RA2-PA35 "Adelaide Fischer's Season"
  8. News: 1920-02-18 . Mme. Fischer Sings New Songs . 10 . New York Herald . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: 1914-03-17 . Concert Tonight at First Baptist . 6 . The Morning Call . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  10. News: 1921-11-16 . Adelaide Fischer is Coming Here . 6 . Harrisburg Telegraph . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1926-12-17 . First Presbyterian Church . 3 . The Ridgewood Herald . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1916-11-18 . Adelaide Fischer Sings; A Recital of Old and Modern Music -- Isolde Menges Plays . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-06-21 . 0362-4331.
  13. News: 1921-11-02 . Rich Quartet to Appear Here . 6 . Harrisburg Telegraph . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  14. September 23, 1915 . Adelaide Fischer to sing Mahler symphony . Musical Courier . 71 . 15.
  15. October 11, 1915 . Adelaide Fischer to Sing in Mahler's Symphony with Stokowski . Musical America . 22 . 11.
  16. September 7, 1918 . Adelaide Fischer to Visit South on Coming Tour . Musical America . 28 . 23.
  17. September 14, 1918 . Adelaide Fischer in War Benefits . Musical America . 28 . 13.
  18. News: 1921-01-23 . Music in Brooklyn . 35 . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  19. Book: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences . The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences ... . January 15, 1921 . 14 . en.
  20. Web site: Fischer, Adelaide . 2022-06-21 . Discography of American Historical Recordings.
  21. Seiler . Linn . 1916 . Butterflies : op. 20, no. 4 . 3 . Sibley Music Library.
  22. News: 1936-02-24 . Plan Musicale . 20 . The Record . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  23. News: 1918-07-03 . Adelaide Fischer Wedded . 6 . The Wichita Eagle . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  24. June 29, 1918 . Adelaide Fischer Weds G. H. Federlein . Musical America . 28 . 40.
  25. News: 1952-02-28 . Gottfried H. Federlein, Organist, Composer, Dies . 13 . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 2022-06-21 . Newspapers.com.
  26. News: 1950-04-25 . Otto L. Fischer Dies in Brooklyn . 6 . The Wichita Beacon . 2022-06-22 . Newspapers.com.

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