Adelaide Fischer

Fischer was from Brooklyn,[1] the daughter of Otto Fischer and Adelaide Freitag Fischer.[2][3] Her brother, Otto L. Fischer, was a pianist, educator, composer who was based in Wichita, Kansas in adulthood.[4][5][6]

Fischer, "a charming light soprano",[7][8] sang in recitals and churches,[9] mostly in the mid-1910s[10] and 1920s,[11][12] including appearances at New York's Aeolian Hall.[8][13][14] In 1915, she joined Florence Hinkle and Inez Barbour Hadley as soprano soloists in a performance of a Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.[15][16] She toured in the southern United States in 1918.[17] During World War I she sang for the troops and gave benefit concerts, accompanied by her husband.[18] In 1921, she gave a joint recital with Mario Laurenti at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[19][20]

Fischer made a number of recordings in 1914 and 1917, mostly for the Edison label.[21] Linn Seiler and Karl Ino dedicated a song, "Butterflies" (1916), to Fischer.[22]

She was a church soloist and taught music later in her life, in New York City.[23]

Fischer married organist and composer Gottfried Harrison Federlein in 1918.[4][24] They had a daughter, Norma Adelaide, born in 1919; they divorced in the 1920s, and he remarried.[25] She lived with her brother in Brooklyn in her later years, and survived him when he died in 1950.[26]