Aksel Schiøtz

Aksel Schiøtz (born September 1, 1906 in Roskilde , † April 19, 1975 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish opera singer (tenor, baritone) and singing teacher .

Life

Schiøtz studied languages ​​at the University of Copenhagen until 1929 and then worked as a teacher. The choir conductor Mogens Wöldike accepted him as a tenor in the Copenhagen men's choir , where he soon took over solo parts in oratorios. He then took singing lessons at the Royal Copenhagen Opera with Agnete Zacharias and Valdemar Lincke and later in Stockholm with John Forsell .

Schiøtz made his debut as a lieder singer in 1936, as an opera singer in the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte in 1938 at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. The German occupation of Denmark prevented an international career until 1945, but Schiøtz became a popular opera, operetta and lied singer in Denmark. In 1946 he traveled to England, where he recorded Franz Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin and Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe with the pianist Gerald Moore .

In the same year Schiøtz was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma . After his operation, he made a comeback as a singer in 1948. Even after a brain tumor, which was diagnosed in 1950 and which temporarily impaired his ability to speak, he managed to return as a singer. From 1955 he devoted himself to singing lessons. He worked at the University of Minnesota until 1958 , at the University of Toronto until 1961 , at the University of Colorado until 1968 and finally as a professor of singing in Copenhagen.

Web links

• Aksel Schiøtz at Bach Cantatas (English)
• Aksel Schiøtz in the Internet Movie Database (English)