Herbert Schachtschneider

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Herbert Schachtschneider (born February 5, 1919 in Allenstein , East Prussia , † October 26, 2008 in Cologne ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Schachtschneider grew up in Berlin and began private singing studies in 1936, a year before he graduated from high school. From 1937 to 1939 he was a student of Julius von Raatz-Brockmann at the music academy in Berlin.

After the start of the war he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , and after the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944, he was taken prisoner by the British , from which he was only released on New Year's Eve 1948. He initially stayed in England and became a student of Hans Nachod in London.

When he returned to Germany, he first appeared in revues and musicals , in television productions for NDR and at the Eutin Festival . The first permanent engagements followed at the stages in Flensburg, Mainz and Essen. Finally he came to the Städtische Bühnen in Cologne in 1959 under Oscar Fritz Schuh , where he interpreted a repertoire of German, Slavic, French and Italian opera for over 25 years . Guest appearances have taken him to Vienna, Buenos Aires, La Scala in Milan and London. He worked with the conductors Siegfried Köhler , Hans Swarowsky , Rafael Kubelík , Joseph Keilberth , Nello Santi and Wolfgang Sawallisch , among others .

Grave Melaten Cemetery

Herbert Schachtschneider's broad repertoire of roles ranged from the Duke in Rigoletto to Otello to Samson and Tannhäuser . He sang the box next to George London's Wotan in Wieland Wagner's Cologne Ring . In Berlin he sang Mephistopheles in Busoni's Doctor Faust alongside Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau .

From 1972 he was a lecturer at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken , and from 1975 he held a professorship there.

Schachtschneider died in 2008 at the age of 89 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 22 (V)).

Discography

  • Richard Wagner, Lohengrin, complete recording, Hans Swarowsky , 1968, (CD Weltbild Classics, April 24, 1996)

literature

  • Ekkehard Pluta: The four tenors - in one . In: operwelt September / October 2004, p. 92

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Schneider: Obituary in o.ton - Journal der Oper Köln February, March, April 2009, p. 24 f.
  2. ↑ Herbert Schachtschneider retrospective in Opernwelt magazine
  3. ↑ On the death of the tenors Gianni Raimondi and Herbert Schachtschneider
personal data
SURNAME Schachtschneider, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2008
Place of death Cologne