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	* '''[[Letter 4777a]]''' – 26 September/8 October or 27 September/9 October 1892, from [[Prague]]		* '''[[Letter 4777a]]''' – 26 September/8 October or 27 September/9 October 1892, from [[Prague]]

	One letter from Foerstrová-Lautererová to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1889, is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]].		One letter from Foerstrová-Lautererová to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1/13 June 1889, is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup\|4}}, No. 4528).

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==

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	Czech soprano (b. ~~30 December 1868/~~11 January 1869 in [[Prague]]; d. 9 April 1936 in [[Prague]]), born '''''Berta Lautererová''''' (Bertha Lauterer); known after her marriage as '''''Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová''''' (Bertha Foerster-Lauterer).		Czech soprano (b. 11 January 1869 {{NS}} in [[Prague]]; d. 9 April 1936 in [[Prague]]), born '''''Berta Lautererová''''' (Bertha Lauterer); known after her marriage as '''''Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová''''' (Bertha Foerster-Lauterer).

	==Biography==		==Biography==

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	Czech soprano (b. 11 January 1869 in [[Prague]]; d. 9 April 1936 in [[Prague]]), born '''''Berta Lautererová''''' (Bertha Lauterer); known after her marriage as '''''Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová''''' (Bertha Foerster-Lauterer).		Czech soprano (b. 30 December 1868/11 January 1869 in [[Prague]]; d. 9 April 1936 in [[Prague]]), born '''''Berta Lautererová''''' (Bertha Lauterer); known after her marriage as '''''Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová''''' (Bertha Foerster-Lauterer).

	==Biography==		==Biography==

	After making her debut as a soprano at the National Theatre in [[Prague]], in 1888 she married the composer and critic [[Josef Bohuslav Foerster]] (1859–1951), who moved with her to [[Hamburg]] when she joined the city's Stadttheater in 1893. The couple became acquainted with [[Gustav Mahler]], who engaged her for the Hofoper in [[Vienna]] in 1903, causing the couple to relocate to the Austrian capital. However, they returned to [[Prague]] in 1918, and they remained in Czechoslovakia for the rest of their days.		After making her debut as a soprano at the National Theatre in [[Prague]], in 1888 she married the composer and critic [[Josef Bohuslav Foerster]] (1859–1951), who moved with her to [[Hamburg]] when she joined the city's Stadttheater in 1893. The couple became acquainted with [[Gustav Mahler]], who engaged her for the Hofoper in [[Vienna]] in 1903, causing the couple to relocate to the Austrian capital. However, they returned to [[Prague]] in 1918, and they remained in Czechoslovakia for the rest of their days.

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	One letter from Foerstrová-Lautererová to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1889, is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]].		One letter from Foerstrová-Lautererová to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1889, is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]].

	~~==External Links==~~
	* [[wikipedia:Berta_Foersterová\|Wikipedia]]

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==
	* {{bib\|1952/2}} (1952)		* {{bib\|1952/2}} (1952)
	* {{bib\|1952/46}} (1953)		* {{bib\|1952/46}} (1953)

			==External Links==
			* [[wikipedia:Berta_Foersterová\|Wikipedia]]
			* {{viaf\|84385110}}

	==Notes and References==		==Notes and References==
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	* '''[[Letter 4777a]]''' – 26 September/8 October or 27 September/9 October 1892, from [[Prague]]		* '''[[Letter 4777a]]''' – 26 September/8 October or 27 September/9 October 1892, from [[Prague]]

	One letter from Foerstrová-Lautererová to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1889, is preserved in the [[Klin]] ~~House-Museum Archive~~.		One letter from Foerstrová-Lautererová to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1889, is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]].

	==External Links==		==External Links==

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	==Biography==		==Biography==

	After making her debut as a soprano at the National Theatre in [[Prague]], in 1888 she married the composer and critic [[Josef Bohuslav Foerster]] (1859–1951), who moved with her to [[Hamburg]] when she joined the city's ~~Stadtheater~~ in 1893. The couple became acquainted with [[Gustav Mahler]], who engaged her for the Hofoper in [[Vienna]] in 1903, causing the couple to relocate to the Austrian capital. However, they returned to [[Prague]] in 1918, and they remained in Czechoslovakia for the rest of their days.		After making her debut as a soprano at the National Theatre in [[Prague]], in 1888 she married the composer and critic [[Josef Bohuslav Foerster]] (1859–1951), who moved with her to [[Hamburg]] when she joined the city's Stadttheater in 1893. The couple became acquainted with [[Gustav Mahler]], who engaged her for the Hofoper in [[Vienna]] in 1903, causing the couple to relocate to the Austrian capital. However, they returned to [[Prague]] in 1918, and they remained in Czechoslovakia for the rest of their days.

	==Tchaikovsky and Foerstrová-Lautererová==		==Tchaikovsky and Foerstrová-Lautererová==
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	==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==		==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
	3 letters from Tchaikovsky to Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová have survived, dating from 1889 to 1892, all of have been translated into English on this website:		3 letters from Tchaikovsky to Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová have survived, dating from 1889 to 1892, all of which have been translated into English on this website:
	* '''[[Letter 3854]]''' – 12/24 May 1889, from [[Moscow]]		* '''[[Letter 3854]]''' – 12/24 May 1889, from [[Moscow]]
	* '''[[Letter 3867]]''' – 26 May/7 June 1889, from [[Frolovskoye]]		* '''[[Letter 3867]]''' – 26 May/7 June 1889, from [[Frolovskoye]]

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{{picture|file=Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová.jpg|caption='''Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová'''<br/>(1869–1936), as Tatyana at the first performance of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' outside Russia ([[Prague]], 1888)}}
Czech soprano (b. 11 January 1869 in [[Prague]]; d. 9 April 1936 in [[Prague]]), born '''''Berta Lautererová''''' (Bertha Lauterer); known after her marriage as '''''Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová''''' (Bertha Foerster-Lauterer).

==Biography==

After making her debut as a soprano at the National Theatre in [[Prague]], in 1888 she married the composer and critic [[Josef Bohuslav Foerster]] (1859–1951), who moved with her to [[Hamburg]] when she joined the city's Stadtheater in 1893. The couple became acquainted with [[Gustav Mahler]], who engaged her for the Hofoper in [[Vienna]] in 1903, causing the couple to relocate to the Austrian capital. However, they returned to [[Prague]] in 1918, and they remained in Czechoslovakia for the rest of their days.

==Tchaikovsky and Foerstrová-Lautererová==
Tchaikovsky first met Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová when he came to [[Prague]] to conduct, on 24 November/6 December 1888, the first performance of'' [[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' outside Russia. The opera was a great success in the Czech capital, garnering enthusiastic praise from [[Antonín Dvořák]], and Tchaikovsky himself singled out Berta's performance: "Tatyana was such as I could never have imagined in my dreams" <ref name="note1"/>. The composer unexpectedly met her again in [[Hamburg]] five years later when he came to the Hanseatic city to attend the revival of his opera ''[[Iolanta]]'' on 26 August/7 September 1893 (with [[Gustav Mahler]] conducting and Kathi Bettaque in the title-role). The second half of that evening's double-bill was taken up by the first performance in [[Hamburg]] of Leoncavallo's ''Pagliacci'', and it so happened that Berta was singing Nedda in that opera. As her husband [[Josef Bohuslav Foerster]] recalled in his memoirs:

{{quote|That evening I was full of impatience as I waited for my wife to come home from the theatre. She was in a state of joyful excitement when she arrived. She had met Tchaikovsky backstage, and both had been greatly surprised: Tchaikovsky had had no idea that his Czech ''Tatyana'' had landed up in the ensemble of the [[Hamburg]] ''Stadt-Theater'', and 'Tatyana' learnt of Tchaikovsky's presence in the theatre only when [[Pollini]] [the theatre's director] dragged him onstage <ref name="note2"/>.}}

The following evening, Berta and her husband attended a small reception in Tchaikovsky's honour at [[Bernhard Pollini]]'s house, the only other guest being [[Gustav Mahler]].

==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
3 letters from Tchaikovsky to Berta Foerstrová-Lautererová have survived, dating from 1889 to 1892, all of have been translated into English on this website:
* '''[[Letter 3854]]''' – 12/24 May 1889, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 3867]]''' – 26 May/7 June 1889, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* '''[[Letter 4777a]]''' – 26 September/8 October or 27 September/9 October 1892, from [[Prague]]

One letter from Foerstrová-Lautererová to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1889, is preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.

==External Links==
* [[wikipedia:Berta_Foersterová|Wikipedia]]

==Bibliography==
* {{bib|1952/2}} (1952)
* {{bib|1952/46}} (1953)

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">[[Letter 3733]] to [[Praskovya Tchaikovskaya]], 26 November/8 December 1888.</ref>
<ref name="note2">[[Foerster]]'s memoirs were published in Czech as three separate books in 1931-32, 1938, and 1947, and an abridged German translation later appeared as: Joseph B. Foerster, ''Der Pilger. Erinnerungen eines Musikers'', transl. Pavel Eisner ([[Prague]]: Artia, 1955). It is from the latter edition that the above excerpt is quoted in Peter Feddersen, ''{{bib|2006/6|Tschaikowsky in Hamburg: Eine Dokumentation}}'' (2006), p. 147.</ref>
</references>
[[Category:People|Foestrova-Lautererova, Berta]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Foestrova-Lautererova, Berta]]
[[Category:Singers|Foestrova-Lautererova, Berta]]