Therese Teyber

Therese Teyber, c. 1785[1]

Therese Barbara Alberta Teyber (bap. 15 October 1760 – 15 April 1830) was an Austrian operatic soprano.

Life

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Education

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Therese was born in Vienna to Matthäus Teyber and Theresia Riedl.[2] The composer Giuseppe Bonno was witness to her parents' marriage and may have been Therese's childhood music instructor.[3][4] The contralto Vittoria Tesi[5] and the composer Antonio Salieri[6] may also have been her teachers.

From 1773, the Teyber and Mozart families were closely connected.[7][8]

Career

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In September of 1778, Therese made her debut as Fiametta in Maximilian Ulbrich's Frühling und Liebe.[5][9] The premiere production was with the Nationalsingspiel in the Vienna Burgtheater, of whose Italian opera company she was a member from 1783–5.[1] During her tenure, Therese also performed in concerts for the Tonkünstler-Societät. Her final appearance was in March 1784 as Sara in Haydn's Il ritorno di Tobia.[5][10]

Therese created the role of Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782).[11] The following year, the composer had planned for Therese to premiere the role of Metilde in Lo sposo deluso, but the opera with never completed.[12] On 23 March 1783, Therese sang 'Parto, m'affretto' from Lucio Silla in Mozart's benefit concert at the Burgtheater.[13][14] Mozart reciprocated by performing the following week in Therese's Burgtheater concert. Both concerts were attended by the Emperor.[15][16]

Therese Teyber was largely popular as an actress and singer, though she was compensated far less than her other female counterparts, like Nancy Storace.[17] She performed both Singspiele and operas, many of which were produced at the Kärntnertortheater where she was a member of the German opera company from 1785–91.[1] In addition to those of Mozart, Teyber was featured in the operas of Salieri, Umlauf, Gluck, Paisiello, and others.[6][18] In 1786, Therese married the tenor Philipp Ferdinand Arnold, with whom she had sung in Frühling und Liebe eight years prior. Together, Therese and Ferdinand toured Germany, Poland, and the Baltic region in concert.[9][19][20]

For a number of the final performances of Don Giovanni in Vienna in 1788, Therese probably replaced Luisa Laschi as Zerlina.[7][21]

Family

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See also: Teyber

Therese's father, Matthäus, was a violinist. He served in the chapel of Elisabeth Christine, the widow of Charles VI. Later, he worked as a theater and court musician. Therese's older sister, Elisabeth, was also an operatic soprano. Their brothers Anton and Franz were both musicians, composers, and Kapellmeisters. Anton's daughter Elena had a modest career as a performer and composer. In 1827, she married the Moldavian composer Gheorghe Asachi. Gheorghe adopted Elena's children from her first marriage, including her daughter, Hermione.

Therese has been confused with Maria Anna Tauber, to whom she is not related.[5] The two sopranos performed together in Ulbrich's Frühling und Liebe in 1778.[22]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Teyber, Therese Barbara Alberta (1760-1830)". Mozart and Material Culture Souvenirs. London: King's College London, Department of Music. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  2. ^ Friedrich Blume; Ludwig Finscher, eds. (2006). "Teyber". Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik, Part 2 (in German). Vol. 16. Bärenreiter. p. 718.
  3. ^ Christian Fastl (2 December 2020). "Teyber...Familie" [Teyber...family]. Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon Online (in German). doi:10.1553/0x0001e464.
  4. ^ Erich Schenk (1960). Mozart and His Times. London: Secker & Warburg. p. 117.
  5. ^ a b c d Peter Branscombe (2008). Laura Macy (ed.). The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 494–5.
  6. ^ a b Christian Fastl. "T(h)eyber". Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon (in German). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences. p. 275. doi:10.1553/0x003110e0.
  7. ^ a b Peter Branscombe (2002) [1992]. Teyber family (opera). Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O905078. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  8. ^ Otto Erich Deutsch (1965). Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Translated by Eric Blom; Peter Branscombe; Jeremy Noble. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 146.
  9. ^ a b Stanley Sadie (2000). Mozart and His Operas. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference Limited. p. 189. ISBN 9780333790199.
  10. ^ Walter Reicher, ed. (2020). Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte, 12: Original – Interpretation – Rezeption [Eisenstadt Haydn Reports, 12: Original – Interpretation – Reception] (in German). Vienna: Hollitzer. p. 185. ISBN 9783990128312.
  11. ^ Thomas Bauman (November 1991). "Mozart's Belmonte". Early Music. 19 (4). Oxford: Oxford University Press: 558. JSTOR 3127917.
  12. ^ Neal Zaslaw, ed. (1990). Compleat Mozart: A Guide To The Musical Works Of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 57. ISBN 9780393028867.
  13. ^ Stanley Sadie (March 1967). "Mozart and His 'Lucio Silla'". The Musical Times. 108 (1489). Musical Times Publications Ltd.: 219. doi:10.2307/952431. JSTOR 952431.
  14. ^ Simon P. Keefe (2017). Mozart in Vienna: The Final Decade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 164. ISBN 9781107116719.
  15. ^ Piero Melograni (2007). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 162. ISBN 9780226519562.
  16. ^ Christoph Wolff, ed. (1976). "Forward". Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Series V: Concertos (PDF) (Media notes). Translated by William Buchanan. Bärenreiter; International Mozarteum Foundation. p. X.
  17. ^ Dorothea Link (2022). "Chapter 4, Nancy Storace: The Italian Company, 1783–84". The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252053658.
  18. ^ Thomas Bauman (1987). W. A. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 16. ISBN 9780521310604.
  19. ^ Oscar Teuber (1903). Die Theater Wiens. Vol. 2. Vienna: de:Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst. p. 64.
  20. ^ Julian Rushton (2007). "Therese Teyber". The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Operas. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 9780195313178.
  21. ^ Julian Rushton (2006). Mozart. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 159. ISBN 9780195182644.
  22. ^ Karl-Josef Kutsch; Leo Riemens, eds. (2003). "Anhang". Großes Sängerlexikon [Great Singer Dictionary] (in German). Munich: K. G. Saur Verlag. p. 5238.
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