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Wagner, Johanna

(*1828)> TENOR
Author: BURRELL

WAGNER, Johanna, niece of Richard Wagner, was born at Hanover, , daughter of Albert Wagner, a dramatic tenor. He married Elise Gollmann, with a voice of the abnormal compass of three octaves and two notes, who in her very short career is said to have sung the parts of Tancredi and of the Queen of Night, with equal fulness of tone.

Richard Wagner and his brother Albert lived together in Würzburg during the whole of 1833. Johanna, then only...

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