Ernst Koch (singer)

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Ernst Koch (born July 8, 1819 in horse life near Gotha ; † January 18, 1894 in Stuttgart ) was a German chamber singer with a tenor voice , founder of a singing school and music teacher .

Life

Ernst Koch studied in Dresden at what was then the Dresden Conservatory and made his debut as a tenor in 1840. He then received an engagement in Sondershausen , before he was hired by Heinrich Dorn as principal tenor of the Cologne Gürzenich Concerts .

According to the diaries of the composer Robert Schumann , Ernst Koch appeared as a singer in various Schumann concerts.

From 1850 Koch taught teachers at the Cologne Conservatory before founding his own singing school in 1854.

Koch married Mathilde Haberland (1828–1912), the daughter of a lawyer. A son was born to the couple on November 9, 1860 in Cologne, who later became the publisher Alexander Koch .

After the establishment of the empire, Koch first lived in Hanover from 1872 and then in Stuttgart from 1874, where he died around two decades later.

student

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Gerd Nauhaus (Ed.): Koch, Ernst , in: Tagebücher / Robert Schumann , Volume 3: Household Books , Part 1: 1837–1847 , Basel; Frankfurt am Main: Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, pp. 538, 541, 549, 621, 625, v. a. Pp. 877-878; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ Wolfgang Boetticher : Robert Schumann. Introduction to personality and work. Contributions to the epistemological criticism of the history of music and studies on the expression problem of the 19th century [Festschrift for the 130th return of the birthday of Robert Schumann] (= publication of the German Robert Schumann Society ), at the same time philosophical dissertation 1942 in Berlin, Berlin: B. Hahnefeld, 1941, P. 653; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Koch, Alexander in the New German Biography
  4. ↑ In our letter folder in: Wiener Theater Chronicle , Volume 10, Number 37 of July 17, 1868 ed. by CA Sachse, Vienna 1869, p. 137; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chamber singer (tenor) and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Horse life near Gotha
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1894
Place of death Stuttgart