Eva Busch
Eva Busch (born Eva Zimmermann: 22 May 1909 – 20 July 2001) was a German-born singer and cabaret artist. Life Family provenance and early years Eva Senta Elisabeth Zimmermann was born in Berlin: on the same day of the year as her illegitimate patrilineal relative Richard Wagner. She was the daughter of the opera singer Emmy Zimmermann whose admirers had included Claude Debussy. A year before the publication of her autobiography in 1991 she disclosed the identity of her father in an interview. Franz Beidler was a Swiss orchestral conductor and, perhaps even more significantly, a son in law to Richard Wagner whose musical reputation was by the time of Eva's birth sky high. He was another of Emmy Zimmermann's admirers. In 1908, while his wife, Isolde was suffering from a bout of tuberculosis, Franz Beidler and Emmy Zimmermann fell in love. Eva's birth was the result. Later Eva's mother, Emmy Zimmermann married: as a result Eva's name changed and she was known until her own marriage as Eva Klein. Musical training Eva Klein received her first piano lesson when she was 4 and her first violin lesson when she was 7. Dancing lessons began when she was 5. Musical