Adolf Shimon

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Adolf Schimon (born February 29, 1820 in Vienna , † June 21, 1887 in Leipzig ) was an Austro-German pianist , singing teacher and composer.

Life

Adolf Schimon was the son of the Buda- born singer and painter Ferdinand Schimon , who came to Munich with him in 1821 and sang at the court theater there until 1840. Adolf received piano lessons from Caroline Perthaler at a very early age and appeared publicly in November 1831 with a piano concerto by Friedrich Kalkbrenner . In 1834 he gave his first concert in Augsburg and in February 1836 a "Great Vocal and Instrumental Concert" in the Odeon in Munich.

At the Paris Conservatoire he studied from 1837 at Henri Montan Berton and Fromental Halévy , composition and piano and let his voice there by Marco Bordogni and Davide Banderali train. In 1840 he went to Florence to study singing , where later on February 12, 1846 his opera "Alessandro Stradella" was premiered. Around 1844 he lived in Paris , where he met Anton Schindler , Stephen Heller and Julius Stern .

He went to London and worked as a répétiteur at Her Majesty's Theater from 1850 to 1853 . During this time he went on concert tours accompanying singers such as Michael Balfe , Sims Reeves and Clara Novello . This was followed in 1854 for four years in the same position at the Italian Opera in Paris , in the Théâtre-Italy . Then Shimon lived again in Italy. On August 12, 1858, his friend Friedrich von Flotow performed his comic opera “List um List” at the Court Theater in Schwerin . In 1872 he married the singer Anna Regan in Florence . He worked as a conductor in various theaters in Germany, and later, from 1874 as a singing teacher in Germany, first at the Leipzig Conservatory , and from 1877 to 1886 at the Royal Music School in Munich, where he often performed as a piano accompanist in recitals of his wife and the Viennese Singer Gustav Walter performed. Then he returned to Leipzig, where he taught again at the conservatory. Alwin Ruffini was one of his students in Leipzig . Among his students at the Royal Music School in Munich were the two later sopranos Emilie Welti and Emilie Feuge-Gleiss , of whom he later taught in Leipzig.

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  1. ↑ a b Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large Singer Lexicon, Volume 4 . 4th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 4205 .
  2. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large Singer Lexicon, Volume 4 . 4th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 2061 .
  3. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large Singer Lexicon, Volume 4 . 4th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 1448 .
personal data
SURNAME Shimon, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German composer and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1887
Place of death Leipzig