Autographs of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, DBE (German: ⓘ; 9 December 1915 – 3 August 2006) was a German-born Austro-British lyric soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher internationally. She is considered one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century.
Schwarzkopf was born on 9 December 1915 in Jarotschin in the Province of Posen in Prussia, Germany (now in Poland), to Friedrich Schwarzkopf and his wife, Elisabeth (née Fröhlich). Schwarzkopf performed in her first opera in 1928, as Eurydice in a school production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1934, Schwarzkopf began her musical studies at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, where her singing tutor, Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, attempted to train her to be a mezzo-soprano. Schwarzkopf later trained under Maria Ivogün, and in 1938 joined the Deutsche Oper.
In 1933, shortly after the Nazis came to power, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's father, a local school headmaster, was dismissed from his position by the new ruling authorities for having refused to allow a Nazi party meeting at his school. He was also banned from taking any new teaching post. Until Friedrich Schwarzkopf's dismissal, the probability was that the 17-year-old Elisabeth would have studied medicine after passing her Abitur; but now, as the daughter of a banned school teacher, she was not allowed to enter university and she commenced music studies at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. Schwarzkopf made her professional debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (then called Deutsches Opernhaus) on 15 April 1938, as the Second Flower Maiden (First Group) in act 2 of Richard Wagner's Parsifal. In 1940 Schwarzkopf was awarded a full contract with the Deutsches Opernhaus, a condition of which was that she had to join the Nazi party.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Musical autographs / Two typed letters from Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Legge Signed) was sold in January 2023 for £173.04 while the cheapest item (ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF-German Born British Soprano-Mozart.Wagner etc-Signed Page) found a new owner for £4.20 in May 2019. The month with the most items sold (6) was January 2024 with an average selling price of £22.01 for an autographed item of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in July 2020 with £125.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £6.50 was November 2023. In average, an autographed item from Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is worth £19.95.
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