Born: 14 January 1751, Germany
Died: 23 August 1802
Country most active: Germany
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
At the first performance of Iphigenia, at the Court Theatre in Ettersburg, Saxony, she played the title role. Goethe, the author, played Orestes. She was the daughter of a musician, and studied music in Leipzig. In 1765 she was introduced to the concert stage and, in 1776, made her debut on the operatic stage at the Court of Weimar.
She was beautiful and an accomplished artist. The Duke of Weimar described her as: “beautiful as marble and just as cold.” To the poem by Goethe, Der Erlkönig, she composed the music. The picture we use of her, is of her own painting.