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Elisabeth Röckel
Elisabeth Röckel (15 March 1793, baptised "Maria Eva", Neunburg vorm Wald – 3 March 1883 in Weimar) was a German soprano opera singer and the wife of the composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Life.
She was a sister of the opera singer Joseph August Röckel (1783-1870) who played Florestan in the second version of Beethoven’s opera "Fidelio", which premiered in the Theater an der Wien in 1806. In the same year she came to Vienna, too, where
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