Kät(h)e von Schuch-Schmidt (18 March 1885 in Dresden as Katharine Johanna Henriette Wilhelmine Clementine SchuchGeburtsregister StA Dresden II, Nr. 835/1885 – 1973 in Munich) was a German soprano.
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 coloratura soprano Liesel Schuch-Ganzel and the violoncellist Hans von Schuch.Familienbild (um 1910): Ehepaar Schuch mit Kindern im Garten. from: Die Schuchs – eine Künstlerfamilie in Dresden. Exhibition announcement of the City Museum (10 May to 28 September 2014).
From 1910 to 1912, Schuch was engaged as a court opera singer in Dessau, after which she performed as a concert singer. After her marriage, she was also known as Käte von Schuch-Schmidt or Käthe Schmidt.Alexander Rausch: Schuch, Familie. In the Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon. Online-Ausgabe, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Print edition: vol. 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2005, .
Further reading Erika Eschebach (ed.), Andrea Rudolph (ed.): Die Schuchs. Eine Künstlerfamilie in Dresden. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2014, .
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