GERTRUD ELISABETH See also:

• GERTRUD ELISABETH MARA (1749-1833)

MARA (1749-1833)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• CASSEL
• CASSEL, or KASSEL

Cassel, the daughter of a poor musician named Schmeling . From him she learnt the See also:

• VIOLIN

violin, and while still a See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child her playing at the See also:

• FAIR

fair at See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort was so remarkable that See also:

• MONEY

money was collected to provide for her . She was helped by influential See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends, and studied under See also:

• HILLEL

Hillel at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig for five years, proving to be endowed with a wonderful See also:

• SOPRANO (a variant of Ital. sovrano, supreme, sovereign, Late Lat. superanus, from super, above)

soprano See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice . She began to sing in public in 1771, and was soon recognized as the greatest singer that See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany had produced . She was permanently engaged for the Prussian See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court, but her See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage to a debauched violinist named See also:

• MARA, GERTRUD ELISABETH (1749-1833)

Mara created difficulties, and in 1780 she was released . After singing at See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich and elsewhere, she appeared in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1782, where her rivalry with the singer See also:

• TODI (anc. Tuder)

Todi See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed into a See also:

• REGULAR

regular See also:

• FACTION (through the French, from Lat. factio, a company of persons combined for action, facere, to do; from the other French derivative facon comes " fashion ")

faction . In 1784 she went to See also:

• LONDON

London, and continued to appear there with See also:

• GREAT

great success, with visits at intervals to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy and to Paris till 1802, when for some years she retired to See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia . She visited See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England again in 1819, but then abandoned the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage . She went to See also:

• LIVONIA, or LIVLAND (Russian, Liflandia)

Livonia, and died on the loth of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1833 at Revel .