Born: Ap­ril 11, 1779, Berlin, Ger­ma­ny.

Died: November 17, 1826, Hamburg, Ger­ma­ny.

Luise’s fa­ther was com­pos­er Jo­hann Fried­rich Reich­ardt. She moved to Ham­burg in 1809, teach­ing sing­ing and di­rect­ing a women’s chor­us which by 1819 evolved in­to the Ham­burg Sing­ve­rein. Her life knew tra­ge­dy: Her fi­an­cé died short­ly be­fore they were due to be mar­ried; some­what later, she lost her voice. Known for her trans­la­tions and ar­range­ments of Han­del’s ora­tor­i­os, she com­posed over 90 song and chor­us­es of her own.

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