GERMAN SOPRANO PELAGIE ENDE ANDRIESSEN AUTOGRAPH TO CONDUCTOR EMIL STEINBACH

Large autograph album page from the autograph book of Conductor Emil Steinbach. The signature was signed in 1891 from Mainz, German with another signature at top of the page in overall good condition.

Measures 9" x 6 1/2"

Her father was the bookseller Ferdinand Andriessen, her mother, Marie Andriessen-von Lingke, was a singing professor at the Vienna Conservatory. Pelagie Andriessen first became an operetta singer at the Vienna Carl Theater (debut as Anna in ''Flotte Bursche'' by F. von Suppé), then at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, Nuremberg, Cologne and Dresden. However, she decided to become an opera singer and tried to get an engagement at the Berlin Court Opera, but was dismissed as having no talent. In the 1882-1883 season she took part in the European tour of Angelos Neumann's traveling Wagner theater. In 1884 she was engaged by the Leipzig Opera House, where she sang Aida as the first role. She studied again in Leipzig with Elisabeth Dreyschock and then became one of the most important dramatic sopranos of her artistic generation in Germany. In 1890 she took part in the premiere of the opera ''Die Almohaden'' by Johann Joseph Abert in Leipzig. She remained in Leipzig until 1890, during this time she made guest appearances at the Court Operas of Vienna and Berlin and at the Covent Garden Opera in London. There she sang in 1892 in ''Rheingold'' and in ''Walküre'' and since then she has had great success in her Wagner roles in this house. At the Mozart Centenary in Salzburg in 1891 she sang the role of Countess in ''Figaros Hochzeit''. In 1886 her Brangäne in ''Tristan und Isolde'' was admired at the Bayreuth Festival, which was considered her special role. In the 1890-1893 seaosns she was at the opera house in Cologne, from 1893 to 1907 she was engaged by the opera house in Frankfurt am Main. She was very popular in Frankfurt and made guest appearances there until 1922. On November 12, 1902 she took part in the premiere of the fairytale opera ''Dornröschen'' by Humperdinck in Frankfurt; On February 15, 1902 she sang in the world premiere of ''Orestes'' by Felix Weingartner at the Leipzig Opera House. In her first marriage she was married to Lieutenant von Sthamer, who died in a duel, in the second to the architect Walter Ende and in the third to the bass Paul Greeff (1854-1923).    

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