Liesel Schuch-Ganzel

Elisabeth Franziska von Schuch-Ganzel (12 December 1891 – 10 January 1990) also Liesel von Schuch, Liesel Schuch-Ganzel, née von Schuch) was a German coloratura soprano

Born in Dresden, Schuch grew up with her parents, the conductor Ernst von Schuch and the opera singer Clementine von Schuch-Proska, in Niederlößnitz (today a district of Radebeul). She was a sister of the soprano Käthe von Schuch-Schmidt and the violoncellist Hans von Schuch.^[1]

She made her debut in La traviata as Violetta in Wiesbaden in 1913. A coloratura soprano like her mother, she became a Royal Saxon Court Opera Singer, later a Dresden Kammersängerin, and was a permanent member of the Sächsische Staatsoper until 1935. Until 1967, she worked as a teacher of singing at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.^[2]

She performed in Dresden and Vienna, and in Dresden she gave solo performances in the Dresden Frauenkirche, the Kreuzkirche and the Dresden Cathedral.^[3]

In 1988, on the occasion of her 97th birthday, she was made an honorary citizen of Dresden.^[4]

She was married to the Corvette Captain Wilhelm Ganzel. Together they had one son (Christian Schuch-Ganzel).^[5]

Schuch-Ganzel died in Dresden at the age of 98. She was buried at the Cemetery Radebeul-West [de] near her parents.

• Erika Eschebach (ed.), Andrea Rudolph (ed.): Die Schuchs. Eine Künstlerfamilie in Dresden.^[6] Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-098-7.
• Michael Hochmuth: Chronik der Dresdner Oper, vol. 2: Die Solisten. Dresden 2004.
• Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern und Stuttgart 1987/1991.
• Straßennamen in Dresden – Reine Männersache?, Part 2, 2004.

• Literature by and about Liesel Schuch-Ganzel in the German National Library catalogue
• Liste von Bildern aus der Sammlung der UB Frankfurt
• Nachlass Liesel Schuch-Ganzel in der Saxon State and University Library Dresden