Irène Joachim [SEP] voice type
Irène Joachim
Irène Joachim (13 March 1913 - 20 April 2001) was a French soprano, and later a vocal teacher.
Early life.
Daughter of German officer Herman Joachim and French violinist Suzanne Chaigneau, and granddaughter of the violinist Joseph Joachim, she learnt violin and piano as a child. She was bilingual in German and French.
Just before the outbreak of the First World War she and her parents left Paris for Berlin, staying in a pension in the Lutherstrasse for the remainder of the war.
" Basel o. J. (ca. 1971)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Aus den Memoiren des Marshalls von Bassompierre." Mit sieben Federzeichnungen von Irène Zurkinden, Basel 1974
Literature.
- Christian Geelhaar: "Irène Zurkinden." Kunstmuseum Basel, 1985.
- Simone Gojan: "Irène Zurkinden." In: Andreas Kotte (Hrsg.): "Theaterlexikon der Schweiz." Band 3, Chronos, Zürich 2005, , S. 2165.
- Hans-Joachim Müller: "Irène Zurkinden