Hilde Rössl-Majdan (1921-2010) was an Austrian contralto and mezzo-soprano, admired in Bach, Mozart, Strauss and concert repertory. She became one of the distinctive lower voices of post-war Viennese music.

In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier under Erich Kleiber.

Rössl-Majdan’s voice offered dark colour, textual clarity and stylistic refinement, qualities that sit naturally in Viennese Mozart and Strauss.

Her page is justified by career standing and catalogue presence. Rössl-Majdan gives the Vienna shelf a richly shaded lower line.