Reinhold von Warlich

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Reinhold von Warlich and Fritz Kreisler in 1917

Reinhold von Warlich (May 24, 1877 - November 10, 1939) was a musician.[1]

Biography[]

He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 24, 1877. His father was the musical director for the private orchestra of Nicholas II of Russia.[2][1]

He studied at the Hamburg Conservatory and then in Florence, Italy.[1]

He sang in Florence with and , and in Cologne with . He made his solo début in Florence in 1899. He toured England, Germany and France. He spent some years in Paris as a singing teacher. His United States début was in 1909 at in Manhattan, New York City.[1][2]

In 1910 in Paris he married Georgia Cheatham Maize, the widow and second wife of , who owned the Ovington Gift Shop in Manhattan. Georgia and von Warlich divorced in 1917.[3]

In 1923 he married , daughter of Baroness .[2][3]

He died on November 10, 1939 in Manhattan, New York City.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Reinhold von Warlich". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 2001. His father was an opera conductor active in St. Petersburg; studied at the Hamburg Cons., in Florence, and in Cologne. He toured in Europe as a singer of German Lieder, and was especially distinguished as an interpreter of Schubert, whose song cycles he gave in their entirety. ...
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Reinhold von Warlich, Concert Singer and Teacher. Father Led Czar's Orchestra". New York Times. November 13, 1939. Retrieved 2015-03-07. Reinhold Warlich, a bass-baritone concert singer who was at one time a teacher of singing in Paris, died Friday at his residence, 32 East Thirty-sixth Street ...
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Married". Time magazine. September 3, 1923. Retrieved 2015-03-10. Married. Reinhold Warlick, 44 concert and opera singer, to Miss Bertha Turk-Rohn, 27, prima donna of the present season of the Voiles Opera, Vienna, daughter of Baroness Olga von Turk-Rohn, in Manhattan. Son of the late Hugo Warlick (business manager of the late Tsar's private orchestra), he was divorced: 1917 from the former Mrs. Edward Judson Ovington, widow of the late owner of the Ovington Gift Shop. Manhattan.
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