1. Lula Mysz-Gmeiner was an academic voice teacher in Berlin and taught both Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Peter Anders.
10 Facts About Lula Mysz-Gmeiner
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Lula Mysz-Gmeiner was born Julie Sophie Gmeiner in Kronstadt, in the region of Transylvania, in Austria-Hungary.
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Lula Mysz-Gmeiner was the third of ten siblings, called Lula.
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Lula Mysz-Gmeiner performed Lieder by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Max Reger, among others, many of them written for her or dedicated to her.
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Lula Mysz-Gmeiner married the Transylvanian engineer Ernst Mysz in Kronstadt in 1900.
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Lula Mysz-Gmeiner was awarded the title of an Austrian-Hungarian Kammersanger in 1905.
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Lula Mysz-Gmeiner made concert tours in Europe and the United States.
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Lula Mysz-Gmeiner often collaborated with the pianists Eduard Behm, Emil Mattiesen, Arthur Nikisch, Siegfried Ochs, and Reger.
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Lula Mysz-Gmeiner appeared in concerts, singing for example the Alto Rhapsody by Johannes Brahms and Lieder by Hugo Wolf with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Oskar Fried, on 8 April 1907.
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Lula Mysz-Gmeiner lost her apartment in Berlin during World War II and taught from 1945 at the Landesakademie in Schwerin.