Elly Ameling; Wiegenlied im Sommer - Wolf

From ’6 Lieder für eine Frauenstimme’ - Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) No. 4 - Wiegenlied im Sommer Text; Robert Reinick (1805–1852) Elly Ameling Piano - Rudolf Jansen Also listen to “Some Thoughts on the Heart of Art Song“, by Elly Ameling; Elly Ameling, soprano, was born in 1933 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She won the International Vocal Contest in ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL) in 1956 cum laude. She subsequently won first prize at the Concours International de Musique de Geneve (CH) in established the start of a remarkable career. After working with Miss Ameling, Ernest Ansermet described her thus: “A good voice is a blessing from somewhere above. Madame Ameling stands continually under this downpour, of which the romanticists would have said it is of divine origin.” She combined the right mix of talent, ambition and determination to become one of the world’s