Teresa Carreño [Teresa d’Albert]
born Caracas, December 22, 1853; died New York, June 12, 1917
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Venezuelan pianist, soprano, and composer; second wife of Eugen d’Albert.
Carreño studied piano and voice in Venezuela before relocating to New York City in 1862 and making her debut there as pianist that year. In 1866 she moved to Paris, studying voice in the late 1870s with Rossini and others and beginning her career in opera with Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots. Returning to the U.S.A., she toured extensively, marrying Emile Sauret in 1873. Thereafter she toured widely as both a pianist and a singer in the U.S.A. and Europe, and eventually in Venezuela, gaining popularity all the time.
She became Eugen d’Albert’s second wife in 1892 (it was her third or fourth marriage), the marriage lasting less than two years, during which the couple had two daughters, before d’Albert turned to Hermine Fink, marrying her in 1895. Carreño’s career continued, with ever more widespread touring, and recording for player piano, until the year in which she died.
Carreño composed music for chorus, orchestra, chamber ensembles, voice with piano, and solo piano, much of which was published, mostly between 1875 and the later 1880s.
Source:
- wikipedia