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]