Etelka Gerster [SEP] voice type
Etelka Gerster
Etelka Gerster (25 June 1855, Košice20 August 1920, Pontecchio) was a Hungarian soprano. She debuted in Italy in 1876 and sang in London the following year.
In 1878, she was performing in the Academy of Music in New York City where she was considered one of the leading singers of her time. Her daughter was wife to the conductor Fritz Reiner.
Gerster lost her voice soon after her child was born and never sang again. From 1896 until 1917, she taught singing in Berlin
with Gustav Walter, a notable voice teacher of the time. About 1898, she moved to Berlin, where she studied with Emilie Herzog, Etelka Gerster and Lilli Lehmann.
She performed Lieder by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Max Reger, among others, many of them written for her or dedicated to her. She married the Transylvanian engineer Ernst Mysz in Kronstadt in 1900. The couple had three daughters, two of whom died young, while the third, Susanne