Zdenka Mottl-Fassbender

Zdenka Mottl-Fassbender

Czechoslovakian soprano Zdenka Mottl-Fassbender (1879-1954). She studied with Sophie Loewe-Destinn (as did her compatriot Emmy Destinn). She made her debut (1899) in Karsruhe. She went on to become a leading soprano in Munich. She married conductor and composer Felix Mottl at his deathbed after he collapsed in Munich while conducting a performance of Tristan und Isolde in 1911. Postcard published by Joseph Paul Böhm, Munich, 1907.