Eugene Gura

Eugen Gura, graphic from 1872

Eugen Gura (born November 8, 1842 in Pressern near Saaz , Bohemia as Eugen Joseph Gura ; † August 26, 1906 in Aufkirchen am Starnberger See , Bavaria ) was an Austrian opera singer. He was considered one of the most important Wagner singers of his time.

Life

Eugen Gura as Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , 1882

Eugen Joseph Gura was born in Pressern in 1842 as the son of the teacher Franz Isidor Gura (* in Pastuchowitz near Jechnitz) and his wife Theresia Engst (* in Rostial near Kaaden). He only attended secondary schools in Chomutov and in Rakovník and 1860, the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna , then devoted himself to the Academy and in 1861 at the school of painting in Munich temporarily the painting and then settled by Franz Hauser and Josef Herger in Munich for singing career to prepare. During his studies in 1861 he became a member of the Vienna academic fraternity Olympia .

Gura studied singing at the Munich Conservatory . In 1865 he made his debut at the Royal Court and National Theater . From 1867 he was engaged as an opera singer in Breslau and from 1870 in Leipzig . In 1876 he first went to Bayreuth , where he sang Gunther in Wagner's Nibelungen tetralogy , and then accepted an engagement at the Hamburg City Theater .

Villa Gura in Berg on Lake Starnberg

After an engagement in London , the baritone returned to Munich in the 1880s and had been a member of the Court Theater in Munich since August 1883 .

Richard Strauss dedicated his Drei Lieder op. 29 (1894/95) based on poems by Otto Julius Bierbaum ( Dream through the Twilight ; Beating Hearts ; Night Walk ) to him.

His sons Eugen Gura junior and Hermann Gura and his daughter Sascha Gura were also actors.

He also trained Paul Jensen as a singer.

Honors

In Munich, Eugen-Gura-Strasse was named after him.

literature

Günther Hansen: Gura, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 326 ( digitized version ).
Gura Eugene. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 108.
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 273-274.

Web links

Commons : Eugen Gura - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Baptism entry in the church book of Pressern, s. 60
^ Tutte, Karl, The political district of Saaz. Eine Heimatkunde, Saaz 1904, p. 599 (Gura's memories).

personal data
SURNAME	Gura, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-German opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pressers at Saaz , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	August 26, 1906
Place of death	Aufkirchen , Bavaria

[1] Baptism entry in the church book of Pressern, s. 60

[2] Tutte, Karl, The political district of Saaz. Eine Heimatkunde, Saaz 1904, p. 599 (Gura's memories).