Franz Kalchmair
Franz Kalchmair (* 22. December 1939 in Wels ; † February 2020 ibid ) was an Austrian opera and Lieder singer (bass) and music teacher .
Life
Kalchmair came to St. Florian in 1949 to attend secondary school and became a member of the Florian Boys' Choir at St. Florian Monastery .
He studied at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and attended the master class with Kurt Equiluz . His first engagements took him to the Lower Austria State Theater and the Baden Summer Stage . With the beginning of the regional music school system in Upper Austria , he was hired as a singing teacher in the regional music schools in Kremsmünster and Wartberg an der Krems .
He took over his parents' farm, which he gave up in the late 1980s and converted the stables into a concert hall. The concert and cultural events were published under the title Art in the G'wölb.
He was a long-time member of the ensemble of the Linz State Theater and several guest singers at the Volksoper Vienna and the Graz Opera . He received further engagements at the Mörbischer Seespiele , at the Salzburg State Theater and occasionally also on stages abroad.
He became known as a bass buffo . Kalchmair's repertoire includes many of the great bass opera roles, such as Falstaff or Tannhauser. He excelled as an interpreter of clerical music and Bach cantatas as well as a performer in funny roles (such as the pig baron in the Gypsy baron or as Tevje in Anatevka ). He participated in world premieres of works by well-known artists such as Balduin Sulzer , Gunter Waldek and Ernst Ludwig Leitner .
Discography
Kalchmair recorded several ballads and arias CDs, including the ballads by Carl Loewe .
Awards
- Bearer of the ring of honor of the community Thalheim bei Wels .
- Culture Medal of the State of Upper Austria (2010).
Web links
- Works by and about Franz Kalchmair in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ We mourn Franz Kalchmair (1939-2020). Retrieved April 7, 2020 (Austrian German).
- ^ Culture medal for Franz Kalchmair, in: Web presence of the market town of Thalheim
- ↑ Culture medals 2702010 The culture medal of the state of Upper Austria received, in: OÖ. Country correspondence dated December 23, 2010
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kalchmair, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera and lieder singer (bass) and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thalheim near Wels |