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Adelaide Fischer
A white woman with dark hair, wearing a tiara and a gown with a square neckline
Adelaide Fischer, from a 1915 publication
BornSeptember 1889
Brooklyn, New York
OccupationSoprano singer

Adelaide L. Fischer Federlein (born September 1889 – died after April 1950) was an American soprano singer, based in New York.

Early life[edit]

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]

Career[edit]

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]

Personal life[edit]

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]

References[edit]

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