Emmy Lisken
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Emmy Lisken (3 February 1923 in
Moers Moers (; older form: ''Mörs''; Dutch language, Dutch: ''Murse'', ''Murs'' or ''Meurs'') is a German List of cities and towns in Germany, city on the western bank of the Rhine, close to Duisburg. Moers belongs to the district of Wesel (distric ...
– 11 October 2020 in
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) was a German
contralto A contralto () is a classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range is the lowest of their voice type, voice types. The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare, similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to ...
in opera and concert.


Career

Born in Moers, Lisken studied voice at the Konservatorium Düsseldorf with Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann. She was engaged from 1955 at the Theater Basel and the
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. In Cologne, she participated in 1957 in the premiere of Wolfgang Fortner's '' Bluthochzeit'' in the role of Leonardo's Wife. A live recording of the premiere was issued 50 years later. From 1958 she worked mainly as a concert and oratorio singer, performing in European countries and at international festivals such as Festival du Marais in Paris. She recorded compositions by
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...
with conductors such as Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Helmut Kahlhöfer, Hans Thamm, and others. Lisken was a voice teacher at the Leopold-Mozart Konservatorium in Augsburg from 1976 to 1998. Her daughter
Annette Seiltgen Annette Seiltgen (born 26 June 1964 in Wuppertal) is a German operatic mezzo-soprano/dramatic soprano. Career Seiltgen grew up in an artistic environment. Her father, , was intendant and long-time director of the Stadttheater Ingolstadt, her mo ...
was one of her students.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lisken, Emmy German contraltos 1923 births 2020 deaths People from Moers