Chavanne, born in Graz as a daughter of the retired Imperial-Royal Major Joseph Ludwig Edler von Chavanne (6 December 1806 in Olomouc - 25 October 1887 in Graz) from his second marriage in Graz on 5 July 1862 to Juliana Edlen von Krisch (20 January 1831 in Teschen – 23 March 1903 in Dresden), was actually supposed to become a pianist, but her piano teacher Wilhelm Mayer discovered her vocal gifts and advised her to study singing.
She died in Dresden in 1938 at the age of 75. Her grave is located in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.
Further readingedit
Adolph Kohut: Das Dresdner Hoftheater in der Gegenwart.[1] E. Pierson's Verlag. Dresden & Leipzig 1888, p. 219 f., (Digitalisat).
Ludwig Eisenberg: Großes biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert.[2]Paul List publisher, Leipzig 1903, p. 154, (Irene von Chavanne is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive).
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