Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim, or C(K)aroline Bettelheim, ''pseudonym:
Tellheim'' ( hu, Bettelheim-Gomperz Caroline; 1 June 1845, in Pest – 13 December 1925, in Vienna) was a Hungarian-Austrian court singer and member of the
Royal Opera, Vienna. Her younger brother was
Anton Bettelheim.
She was born at
Pest
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(
Budapest
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),
Hungary
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. She studied pianoforte with
Karl Goldmark
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, and singing with
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. At the age of 14, she made her début as a pianist, and two years later appeared for the first time in opera at Vienna. She eventually obtained a permanent engagement at the Royal Opera in that city. She has occasionally starred in her favorite rôles in other cities of (Germany) as well as in London. She was the wife of
Julius Ritter von Gomperz
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, president of the Austrian
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and member of the
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.
Anton Rubinstein
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein ( rus, Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, r=Anton Grigor'evič Rubinštejn; ) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the S ...
dedicated to Gomperz-Bettelheim his composition ''Hecuba'', Op. 92, no. 1 (aria for mezzo-soprano and orchestra).
[Anton Rubinstein, ''Hecuba: Arie für eine Altstimme mit Orchesterbegleitung'', Op. 92, no. 1 (Leipzig: Bartholf Senff, ]873
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References
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1845 births
1925 deaths
Austrian untitled nobility
Austrian women pianists
Austro-Hungarian Jews
19th-century Hungarian women opera singers
Hungarian women pianists
Hungarian classical pianists
People from Pest, Hungary
19th-century classical pianists
19th-century Austrian women opera singers
Burials at Döbling Cemetery
19th-century women pianists
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