Alois Ander
Alois Ander , actually Aloys Anderle (born August 10, 1821 in Libitz an der Doubrawa , Bohemia , † December 11, 1864 in Wartenberg ) was an Austrian opera singer ( tenor ).
Life
Alois Ander was engaged in 1845 through the mediation of the singer Franz Wild at the Vienna Court Opera , where he first appeared successfully in the role of Alessandro Stradella in ( Flotow 's opera of the same name), which Wild had rehearsed for him. His most important operatic roles included Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte , Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor , Johann von Leyden in Meyerbeer's The Prophet, and Wagner's Lohengrin and Tannhauser. He studied Tristan from 1861 to 1863 for the premiere of Tristan und Isolde , which was planned in Vienna but was finally canceled . He was the darling of the public and has remained loyal to Vienna despite the tempting applications for engagement that he received as a result of his guest tours. One of his last important roles was Franz Waldung in the world premiere of Jacques Offenbach's Die Rheinnixen on February 4, 1864. Offenbach, however, had to shorten the role because of Ander. Richard Wagner's hope that Ander would become his first Tristan made the Wagnerians angry with Offenbach's work.
Ander died in Bad Wartenberg in the Bohemian Paradise, recently stricken with a mental disorder.
His singing was characterized less by heroic power and sharp characteristics of expression than by poetry, intimacy and artistic seriousness, which gave his dramatic compositions a peculiar charm.
Alois Ander was buried on December 16, 1864 in a separate grave in the Matzleinsdorf cemetery. On February 13, 1869, he was exhumed in his own cemetery in the same cemetery and on October 24, 1894, together with his son Nikolaus, who died in 1858, was transferred to an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 A, number 14). In 1894, on the occasion of this overpass in Vienna- Hernals (17th district), Andergasse was named after him.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Ander, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing press L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 32 f. ( Digitized version ).
- August Förster : Ander, Alois . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 428.
- Anderle Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 20.
- Hilde Strell-Anderle: Alois Ander: from the life of a great tenor; the life picture of a European tenor . Vienna 1996. ISBN 3-85028-270-8
- Michael Jahn : The Vienna Court Opera from 1848 to 1870. Personnel - performances - program. (= Publications of the Institute for Austrian Music Documentation 27). Tutzing 2002. ISBN 3-7952-1075-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Jahn: The Vienna Court Opera from 1836 to 1848. The Balochino / Merelli era . Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85450-148-X .
- ↑ Playbill for the premiere . The entire part was sung by Piotr Beczała for the first time in 2002 and recorded on CD.
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| SURNAME | Ander, Alois |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anderle, Aloys (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Libitz an der Doubrawa , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1864 |
| Place of death | Wartenberg |