Eduard Bachmann

Eduard Bachmann ( September 22, 1831 in Prague - April 18, 1880 in Karlsbad ) was a German oboist , opera singer ( tenor ) and artistic director .

Life

He attended the Conservatory in Prague, where he studied oboe under Professor Bauer. As a trained oboist, he went on a concert tour through Germany with the music director Joseph Labitzky in 1849 , was engaged in the Preßburg theater orchestra in 1850/51 , then went to Dresden, where he was engaged in the music band of the Saxon body regiment. In 1853 he became a member of Johann Strauss's chapel . A year later he was engaged for the orchestra of the Hungarian National Theater in Pest .

Here his voice was discovered and he was sent to Giovanni Gentiluomo for further training . On February 14, 1855, he made his debut at the Hungarian National Theater as "Carlos" in the opera Ernani . He sang several times in the Hungarian and German theater and worked from December 1855 to March 1856 in the Association of the Darmstadt Court Theater. He then went to Agram and worked as a hero tenor in Amsterdam from October 1856 to June 1857. On July 31, 1857 he made his debut in Prague with director Franz Thomé , where he stayed until October 1864.

In the same year he accepted a lifelong engagement at the court theater in Kassel, which was dissolved after the elector's death in 1867. From 1867 to 1868 he worked at the Hoftheater Dresden, from 1868 to 1871 at the Hoftheater Munich, after all levers had been pulled - even the king and Richard Wagner intervened - to get the artist free from Dresden. It was also Wagner's idea to use him as Siegfried in his Nibelungenring , but he rejected these plans.

But he could not stand the Munich climate, his voice deteriorated, and since he had already had diphtheria twice , he retired in 1870 at the age of only 39.

He retired to Karlsbad, where in 1873 he took over the management of this stage, connected with the German theater in Pilsen , for two years .

Bachmann died by suicide on April 18, 1880 in Karlsbad.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Eduard Bachmann . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 39 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
• KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-907820-70-3 , first volume A – L , column 125 f.

Web links

• Eduard Bachmann in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Eduard Bachmann at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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