Joséphine Fodor

Joséphine Fodor

Joséphine Fodor (13 October 1789 or in 1793 – 10 August 1870), also known under the name Joséphine Fodor-Mainvielle, was a French 19th-century lyrical artist (soprano).[1]

Biography

Geneviève Joséphine Fodor, the daughter of composer and violinist Josephus Andreas Fodor (1751-1828) and Louise Edme Marmet, was born is Paris in 1789 or 1793.[2] Her parents left France for Russia when she was only a few months old,[3] emigrating probably because of the French Revolution. She grew up in St. Petersburg where her father, a teacher of the imperial children, taught her the harp and piano.[4]

In 1810, she made her debut in Fioravanti's (1770-1837) opera Le cantatrici villane at the Impérial Opera of Saint-Petersbourg,[4][5] singing in both Russian and French.[6]

In 1812, she married Jean-Baptiste Tharaud-Mainvielle, actor of the French theatre of St-Petersbourg.[5] Shortly afterwards, the couple flew St. Petersburg in prey to the battles of the French invasion of Russia and joined France via Finland.[6]

She finally arrived in Paris and, after a few performances at the Opéra comique, she got involved with the Comédie-Italienne and made her debut on 16 November 1814 in Griselda.[5] She performed in London and Venice afterwards, before her return to the Comédie-Italienne in 1819[7] to sing in Il matrimonio segreto, Don Giovanni, Le Barbier de Séville and La gazza ladra.[5]

Sick, she went to Italy to recover, and toured to Naples where she triumphed in Otello and Vienna before returning to Paris in 1825 to new commitment to the Comédie Italienne. Shortly afterwards, she suffered from vocal affection and gradually ended her operatic career.[5] and withdrew from the scene. She stayed for a while in Passy.[6][8] where she worked for charities,[9] then in Limoges. A widow, she joined Lyon where her son Martial Tharaud-Mainvielle lived.[10]

In 1857, she published Réflexions et conseils sur l'art du chant.[11]

She died in Saint-Genis-Laval on 10 August 1870, in the country house of her daughter-in-law.[12]

Her daughter Henriette, who was also a singer, was engaged by the Königsstädtisches Theater in Berlin between 1846 and 1849[13]

Bibliography

  • Annuaire administratif, biographique, statistique, industriel et commercial de la ville de Passy, 1858, Read online
  • Camille Dreyfus, La Grande encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts, volume 22, Read online.
  • François Joseph Fétis, Biographie universelle des musiciens, et bibliographie générale de la musique, 1883, Read online
  • Charles Unger, Joséphine Mainvielle-Fodor, Précis historique, Vienna, 1823

References

  1. ↑ Alice-Marie Hanson, Musical Life in Biedermeier Vienna) (p. 65), Cambridge University Press, 1985, ISBN 9780521257992
  2. ↑ Several books and references mention 1789, which corresponds to the year deducted from the age indicated in her death certificate, but most of the works published in the 19th century give priority to 1793. His birth certificate does not appear in the reconstituted Parisian civil register.
  3. ↑ George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Fodor-Mainvielle, Joséphine, 1900, consultable sur Wikisource.
  4. 1 2 Musicologie.org, biographie de Joséphine Fodor, Read online
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Camille Dreyfus, La Grande encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts, volume 22, Read online,
  6. 1 2 3 Bulletin de la Société historique d'Auteuil et de Passy, 1904, Read online
  7. ↑ Notice BNF, Read online
  8. ↑ Rochegude (Félix, marquis de), Promenades dans toutes les rues de Paris par arrondissements, 1910, Read online
  9. ↑ Annuaire administratif, biographique, statistique, industriel et commercial de la ville de Passy, 1858 Read online
  10. ↑ Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique du Limousin, 1894, Read online
  11. ↑ Otto Ebel, Les femmes compositeurs de musique. Dictionnaire biographique, 1910, Read online
  12. ↑ Archives du Rhône, death act Read online.
  13. ↑ George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Fodor-Mainvielle Joséphine, 1900, consultable sur Wikisource.
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