Auguste Götze (or Goetze) (24 February 1840 – 29 April 1908) was a German classical singer, actress, playwright, and a distinguished voice teacher.

A highly regarded interpreter of the songs of Schumann, Liszt, and Mendelssohn, she made concert tours to Germany, Switzerland, England, and the Netherlands.

After 1873 Götze's concert performances became much less frequent as she began giving private singing lessons and took up a position as a teacher at the Dresden Conservatory.

[1][2] In the autumn of 1889, Götze moved her school to Leipzig while Molly von Kotzebue remained in Dresden and went her own way as a singing teacher.

Götze's father Franz had died in Leipzig in 1888 after a career of over thirty years as a legendary singing professor at the conservatory,[4] providing her with an entrée into the musical world of the city.

Her much-discussed article "Über den Verfall der Gesangkunst" ("On the decline of the art of singing") was published in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 1875.

In it she summarized her teaching principles and lamented the tendency of talented young singers to rush into stage careers before they had put in the necessary years study and apprenticeship.

According to a contemporary account in The Athenaeum, its premiere in Dresden was a great success with the actors and the playwright receiving numerous curtain calls.