Pauline Horson

Pauline Horson-Brügelmann, "née" Pauline Dyckhoff (25 March 1858 – 28 January 1918) was a German operatic soprano.
Life.
Born in Beckum, Horson studied classical singing with Karl Schneider in Cologne and made her debut in 1875 at the court theatre in Sondershausen. In the following year (1876), after a successful guest performance in Weimar, she came to the Hoftheater Weimar, where she finally joined the Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. She later was appointed Kammersängerin and remained in the ensemble until 1886, the year of her marriage. In that year she married the chemist "Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann" (24 April 1849 in Ratingen - 18 November 1920 in Bad Kissingen) from the manufacturing family of the Ratingen Textilfabrik Cromford.
At the premiere of Wagner's "Parsifal" on 26 July 1882 in Bayreuth under the direction of Hermann Levi she sang one of the Zaubermädchen. Further solos as Zaubermädchen followed in 1883 and 1884 and she was known for her interpretations of Mozart's lyrical and coloratura opera arias. She gave concerts and guest performances at the Bayreuth Festival, at the court opera houses of Berlin, Semperoper, Hanover, Leipzig and the Kroll-Opera in Berlin.
Having become hard of hearing, she died in 1918 in Bonn at the age of 59 from pneumonia. In her will she left an amount of 150,000 Marks in cash from the sale of a house in Bonn and 17 Cologne-Munich railway premium tickets worth 5,100 Marks for the care and design of the Bad Kissinger Ballinghain, a garden left by the Kissingen spa doctor . She and her husband, who had got engaged in Bad Kissingen and stayed there several times in the following years, were dedicated a small park with a memorial stone and benches on the "Finsterberg" in 1922 as a token of gratitude. However, a foundation was no longer established. Due to the inflation that soon set in, the estate became worthless.