Maria Friesenhausen was a German classical soprano who appeared in Europe.
13 Facts About Maria Friesenhausen
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Maria Friesenhausen is known for recordings of Baroque music on record and with broadcasters.
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Maria Friesenhausen was a professor of voice at the University of Dortmund.
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Maria Friesenhausen studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen, with Hilde Wesselmann, among others.
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Maria Friesenhausen finished with a degree in both voice teaching and operatic singing in 1957.
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Maria Friesenhausen focused on concert singing and recording, especially of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and other Baroque composers.
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Maria Friesenhausen toured in Europe, for example to Geneva, Helsinki, Paris and Vienna.
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Maria Friesenhausen was the soprano soloist in several Bach cantatas in the series of the broadcaster NDR conducted by Max Thurn with the NDR Chor, such as in 1960 Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, alongside Ursula Zollenkopf, Johannes Feyerabend and Erich Wenk.
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Maria Friesenhausen recorded Dieterich Buxtehude's Lauda Sion Salvatorem, BuxWV 68, with Helmut Kahlhofer.
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Maria Friesenhausen was the soloist in a recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio conducted by Hans Grischkat, alongside Hildegard Laurich, Peter Wetzler and Bruce Abel in 1972.
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Maria Friesenhausen recorded Andreas Romberg's Das Lied von der Glocke.
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Maria Friesenhausen performed in church concerts, such as in 1977 in Haydn's Die Schopfung at St Patrokli in Soest.
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Maria Friesenhausen worked as a professor of voice at the University of Dortmund.