Hermine Küchenmeister-Rudersdorf

She was married twice: to Dr. Kuchenmeister, a professor of mathematics, and to Maurice Mansfield, a London wine merchant.

[4] Rudersdorff debuted in Leipzig, Germany, when she was the soprano soloist in Felix Mendelssohn’s cantata Lobgesang on June 25, 1840.

Her English debut was on May 23, 1854, at Covent Garden's Theatre Royal on Drury Lane, where she sang in several operas.

Her students included Anna Drasdil, Isabel Fassett, Carlotta Patti, Mary Turner Salter, Fannie Lovering Skinner, and Emma Thursby.

Teresa Carreno worked as Ruidersdorff’s studio accompanist in exchange for voice lessons.

Madame Rudersdorff, ca. 1859–1870]; from the Carte de Visite Collection of the Boston Public Library