Andreas Scutta

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Andreas Scutta , also Skutta (* baptized November 30, 1806 in Vienna , † February 24, 1863 in Prague ) was an Austrian actor, singer and composer.

Life

Andreas Scutta was the son of the master tailor and later "kk postconducteur" Johann Scutta and the cook Johanna, geb. Weidner. He attended the Schottengymnasium , studied at the University of Vienna and received vocal training at the Vienna Music Institute of Count Pálffy , where he stood on the stage of the Theater an der Wien for the first time as an apprentice , in the oratorio Mosè by Gioachino Rossini . The 18-year-old singer was supposed to get a job as a choir singer at the Theater an der Wien and the Kärntnertortheater , but was hired by director Johann August Stöger to Graz.

From 1825 to 1826 he was at the Graz Estates Theater, from 1826 to 1827 he was second tenor at the Landestheater Linz , where he made his debut in Egypt as "Aaron" in Rossini's Moses . From 1827 to 1829 Scutta was first tenor at the Agram Municipal Theater . In 1829 he got vocal cord problems due to a fever and switched to the comedian subject, in which he performed very successfully in Klagenfurt and Laibach . From 1830 he played at the Lviv City Theater as the second comedian and singer in smaller comic opera roles.

In 1831 he married the actress Josefine Demmer (* 1795 in Frankfurt am Main , † 1863 in Vienna) and was hired by the director Karl von Marinelli for the Leopoldstadt Theater . In 1838 the new owner Carl Carl extended this engagement. There he appeared with his famous comedian colleagues Johann Nestroy , Wenzel Scholz and Alois Grois and played many roles, such as Florian Waschblau in Raimund's The Diamond of the Ghost King . He also took part in some premieres of Nestroy's plays, such as in 1843 as Gentleman in Nur Ruhe! , 1844 as Ignaz sound post in railway marriages and in 1845 as tree oil in Das Gewürzkrämerkleeblatt .

After he had already started to compose incidental music in Lemberg, he now continued this in the Leopoldstadt Theater. In 1831 he wrote the overture for Johann Fenzl's parody Der Zauberdrache , in addition to over 30 magic games, parodies and antics, including for Josef Kilian Schickh ( Robert der Wau Wau , a parody of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable ; also Amintha and Odiosa , 2 July 1832), Franz Xaver Told ( 48 hours in Baden , March 18, 1834), Carl Wilhelm Brabbée ( Der Ehefeind , October 23, 1840), Daniel Reibersdorffer ( The waterfall in the Feenhain , September 12, 1835) and Friedrich Hopp ( The buck was shot or Die Jägermädchen , January 11, 1845). His incidental music for Nestroy's local posse Eisenbahnheirathen (January 3, 1844 at the Theater an der Wien) received great applause , where he stepped in because Nestroy's main composer Adolf Müller senior was temporarily absent.

"The music of Mr. Skutta carries this name more deservedly than so many others, to so many other Nestroy's pieces." (Sunday papers of January 7, 1844)

When Carl Carl reduced his ensemble in 1845, Scutta played on various stages of the monarchy from Klagenfurt to Fünfkirchen until 1852 , partly as a guest and partly as a member of the ensemble. His wife performed in the Leopoldstadt Theater until 1861. His former Graz director Stöger, who had taken over the Prague Estates Theater, brought him there in 1852. Scutta made her debut as "Habakuk" in Raimund's Der Alpenkönig und der Misfeind , and appeared as a comic trio in many pieces with Franz Feistmantel and Carl Dolt . His incidental music was also played in Brno .

He appeared for the last time on July 6, 1862, in the play Die Studenten von Rummelstadt by Karl Haffner and Adolf Müller. After a long suffering he died in Prague at the age of 57.

literature

Web links

  • Hubert Reitterer: Scutta, Andreas , in: Česká divadelní encyklopedie / Czech Theaterenzyklöpädie (German), October 15, 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daughter of the tenor and actor Karl Ignaz Demmer (born February 11, 1766, Cologne , † after 1824 [place?]) And the actress Karoline Charlotte, b. Krüger (born February 12, 1764, Berlin , † April 14, 1813, Vienna); Widow of theater director George Palmer (born March 8, 1796 Thurygrund (now district Alsergrund ) † 9 September 1830, Lviv)
personal data
SURNAME Scutta, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skutta, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 30, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1863
Place of death Prague