Kathryn Meisle [SEP] voice type
Kathryn Meisle
Kathryn Meisle (October 14, 1899—January 17, 1970) was an American operatic contralto.
Kathryn Meisle was born in Philadelphia. Her grandfather, Matthew Müssle, originally from Baden-Baden, Germany, settled in Philadelphia in 1848. After naturalization in 1856 he changed his surname to Meisle.
As a child, her father urged her to take piano lessons, sometimes taking multiple lessons a week. When she was fifteen, she was heard by a choir director who offered her a position. Thereafter she
recording of Jerome Kern's Roberta.
Her New York Times obituary stated that she had taught voice "in recent years." Meisle died in New York City on January 17, 1970. She was survived by her brother Layton Meisle (1904-1989).
External links.
- Kathryn Meisle scrapbooks in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts