Camilla Frydan

Camilla Frydan, birthname Herzl, married name Friedmann, pseudonym Herzer, (1887–1949) was an Austrian pianist, soubrette singer, composer and song writer.

[1][2] [3] Born in Wiener Neustadt on 3 June 1887,[4] Camilla Frydan was the daughter of the bank employee Heinrich Herzl and his wife Cäcilie {née Königsberger).

[2] In 1901, she received further instruction in piano from Wilhelm Rauch at the conservatory as well as private lessons from the English concert pianist John Charles Mynotti.

[6] It was at the Fledermaus that she met Egon Friedell and his fellow performers, including his brother Oskar Friedmann, a librettist and journalist, whom she married on 15 July 1910 in the Evangelical Church in central Vienna.

[5] Thanks to her husband, she also befriended several of the most successful composers of the times, including Franz Lehár, Edmund Eysler and Carl Michael Ziehrer.

Her revue Die große Trommel opened at Das Moderne Theater in April 1925 with its popular number "Fräulein, bitte, sind Sie musikalisch?