Johanna Maria Louise Loisinger (1865–1951), was an Austrian actress, pianist, and soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 singer, She was born on 18 April 1865 in Preßburg, Austria (today Bratislava

Bratislava

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), the daughter of John Loisinger and Maria Meier.

After she had completed her singing studies, Loisinger sang in Prague, Troppau (today Opava

Opava

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), Linz

Linz

Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...

, and at the court theatre in Darmstadt

Darmstadt

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. She was a well known singer of the works of Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

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Loisinger married Prince Alexander of Battenberg (1857–1893) on 6 February 1889 in Menton

Menton

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, Alpes-Maritimes, France. The prince had resigned from the Bulgarian throne in 1886 and had assumed the syle of Count von Hartenau, so Loisinger became the Countess von Hartenau. The couple settled in Graz

Graz

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, Austria, and had two children, Assènne Ludwig Alexander (1890–1965) and Marie Therese Vera Zvetana (1893–1935). After her husband's early death, she moved to Vienna where she was an active patron of musical organisations. Among other posts, she was president of the Vienna Symphony.

Loisinger died on 20 July 1951 in Vienna. She was buried on St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz, Austria, where her daughter Tsvetana was previously buried.