Anton Carl Discant

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Anton Carl Discant (born December 13, 1801 in Prague , † February 7, 1874 in Mainz ) was a German singer (tenor) and theater director.

Life

Discant was a son of Princely Thun's stable master Mathias Discant and his wife Eleonora Discant nee. Countess Dufaye. He initially received a commercial apprenticeship and between the ages of 18 and 25 traveled to many European cities, including a. St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, Constantinople, London, Paris, Milan and Naples, to finally return to his native city. With the help of a relative who was in the imperial service, he was to get a job in the secret cipher cabinet .

However, Discant followed his inclination to the stage and so he got his first job as a tenor at the rural theater in Laibach in 1827 . A brief engagement in the Hungarian town of Ödenburg in 1828 was finally followed by the appointment of director Carl Carl to the Theater an der Wien . He stayed there for three years and then moved to the Court Opera Theater under administrator Louis Duport , where he appeared for seven years. During this time he received his further training as a play and tenor buffo with director Joseph Gottdank , with Johann Michael Weinkopf and with the singing teacher Giuseppe Ciccimarra .

After a brief guest performance in Dresden, Discant went to Graz in 1836 for a two-year engagement under theater director Joseph Pellet , then at Easter 1839 for another two years at the city theater in Pest under director Alexander Schmidt. After further short guest appearances in Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Kassel, Mainz and Mannheim, he finally got his next permanent engagement in Frankfurt am Main, where he stayed for only two years because he had a five-year permanent contract at the Court and National Theater in Mannheim was offered, which he took on April 15, 1842. Afterwards, at the end of April 1847, he went back to Frankfurt, where he saw the fall of the theater in 1848 as a result of the revolution and finally did not get a job in a trading house until 1849, again in Mannheim.

"For a period of four years he represented the business interests of his company not only in Germany, Holland, England and France, but also across the ocean, in the United States."

In 1853, Discant and a partner became a partner in their own trading company, which he gave up after the partner's death. Together with his wife, he went back to private life in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1859. Since the directors there, Dr. jur. Alois Jakob Muck and Ferdinand Chrudimsky were new to the theater management, Discant helped them by taking over the management of the books and the main box office at their request. In this way he gained such a good reputation in the theater administration that in 1862 his former companion, Moritz Ernst , appointed him to the management of the Mainz City Theater as his representative .

Anton Carl Discant died as a private citizen in Mainz in 1874 at the age of 72.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ R. Blum, K. Herloßsohn, H. Marggraff (eds.): General theater lexicon or encyclopedia of everything worth knowing for stage artists, amateurs and theater fans, Volume 3: Devrient to Garnitur, Altenburg and Leipzig 1840, p. 30.
  2. ↑ Martin Perels (Ed.): The Deutsche Schaubühne. Organ for theater, music, art, literature and social life. 8th year, Leipzig 1867, pp. 52–58.
  3. ↑ Mainz death register, 31st sheet, No. 181/1874.
  4. ↑ Mannheim City Archives, Family Register 1760–1900, viewed on April 26, 2020 at www.ancestry.com .
  5. ↑ Martin Perels (Ed.): The Deutsche Schaubühne. Organ for theater, music, art, literature and social life. 8th year, Leipzig 1867, p. 57.
  6. ↑ Mainz death register, 31st sheet, No. 181/1874.
personal data
SURNAME Discant, Anton Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1874
Place of death Mainz