Pauline Horson

Pauline Horson-Brügelmann (née Dyckhoff; 25 March 1858 – 28 January 1918) was a German operatic soprano.

Born in Beckum, Kingdom of Prussia as Pauline Dyckhoff, she studied classical singing with Karl Schneider in Cologne and made her debut in 1875 at the court theatre in Sondershausen.

That same year she married the chemist Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann (born 24 April 1849, Ratingen - died 18 November 1920, Bad Kissingen), a scion of the family that built Textilfabrik Cromford.

[1] At the premiere of Wagner's Parsifal on 26 July 1882 in Bayreuth under the direction of Hermann Levi she sang one of the Zaubermädchen.

In her will she left an amount of 150,000 Marks in cash from the sale of a house in Bonn and 17 Cologne-Munich railway premium tickets worth 5,100 Marks for the care and design of the Bad Kissinger Ballinghain, a garden left by the Kissingen spa doctor Franz Anton von Balling [de].