Pauline Emmanuel Rosenthal (1845-1912) was a German choral conductor and composer who lived in South Africa for many years.
Rosenthal was born in
Aachen
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, Germany.
She studied music at the
Cologne Conservatory
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, where one of her classmates was
Engelbert Humperdinck.
Rosenthal married Albert Rosenthal and they had three sons: Julius, Richard, and Berthold. Their grandson (Richard’s son) was the South African historian
Eric Rosenthal.They moved to
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, Eastern Cape, South Africa, where Albert was on the
Standard Bank of South Africa
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board of directors, returning to Germany frequently. While in Middelburg, Rosenthal conducted a choral society, taught, and performed.
Rosenthal lived in
Hanover
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, Germany, for several years where she socialized with the violinist
Joseph Joachim
Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian Violin, violinist, Conducting, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely ...
and other musicians. She died in
Kassel
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in 1912.
Rosenthal’s music was published by
Breitkopf & Haertel, and included the vocal works “Golden Wedding” and “Volkslied,” both dedicated to Lord Milner
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References
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German women composers
1845 births
1912 deaths
German women conductors (music)
People from Aachen
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln alumni