Friedrich Samuel Gerstäcker
Friedrich Samuel Gerstäcker , also Samuel Friedrich Gerstäcker ( December 15, 1788 in Schmiedeberg - June 1, 1825 in Kassel ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).
Life
Gerstäcker, the son of a surgeon, was also to become a doctor. His father therefore sent him to the Kreuzschule in Dresden . There, the brother of the theater director Friedrich Nitzschke , a teacher in Dresden, persuaded him to go to the stage.
He had his first engagement with the Nitsch (k) en Society as first tenor from 1810 to 1812. He made his debut in Chemnitz , after which he also worked in Freiberg , Bautzen , Zittau , Halle and Lübben .
February 1812, after he had completed his playful skills, he took on engagement with the Secondaschen Gesellschaft in Dresden. With this he undertook extensive trips that brought him to Copenhagen , through Holland and also to Paris . On July 15, 1814, he sang the title role in Carl Maria von Weber's Abu Hassan . In the same year he married the singer Louise Friederike Herz .
From 1815 to 1820 he was at the city theater in Hamburg; from April 1, 1819 to 1821, he was then engaged "as the first tenor for German and Italian opera" together with his wife in Dresden (salary, together with his wife: 3,000 rh ). From there he went to Kassel.
In his spare time he was busy painting and wax portraits. In 1823 he contracted a serious lung disease that eventually led to his death on June 1, 1825.
His son was the writer Friedrich Gerstäcker .
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Friedrich Samuel Gerstäcker . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 320 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Web links
- Friedrich Samuel Gerstäcker in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
- Friedrich Samuel Gerstäcker at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Remarks
- ↑ According to Friedrich Samuel Gerstäcker in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition , Eisenberg writes that he was only briefly in Hamburg and from 1816 to 1824 at the Stadttheater Kassel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerstäcker, Friedrich Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gerstäcker, Samuel Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmiedeberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1825 |
| Place of death | kassel |