Marga Höffgen [SEP] voice type
Marga Höffgen
Marga Höffgen (26 April 1921 – 7 July 1995) was a German contralto, known for singing oratorio, especially the Passions by Johann Sebastian Bach, and operatic parts such as Erda in Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen", performed at the Bayreuth Festival and Covent Garden Opera in London between 1960 and 1975.
Career.
Born into a merchant family to parents Friedrich Höffgen (1899-1944) and her mother Maria, née von Eicken (1898-1944) in Mülheim an der Ruhr
brilliant interpreter). She was the alto soloist in a performance of Bruckner's Mass in F minor and Psalm 150 at the Tonhalle Munich on 21 February 1924, performed by the Konzertvereins-Orchester und die Konzertgesellschaft für Chorgesang, conducted by Hanns Rohr, alongside Nelly Merz, Emil Graf, Julius Gieß and with the organist Hermann Sagerer.
Erler-Schnaudt worked as a voice teacher first in Munich, then from 1928 at the Folkwangschule in Essen. Among her students are Marga Höffgen and her niece Ruth Siewert. Erler-