Fritz Feinhals
Fritz Feinhals (born December 14, 1869 in Cologne , † August 30, 1940 in Munich ) was a German opera singer ( baritone ) and royal Bavarian chamber singer in Munich.
Life
Feinhals comes from an old Cologne merchant family, his father Josef Feinhals sen. († December 15, 1907) founded the Cologne tobacco trade Jos, which was family-owned until 1968. Feinhals Cologne. His brother was the cigarette and cigar manufacturer and patron of the arts Josef Feinhals whose stage name "Collofino" was, who was an important initiator and promoter of the art and culture scene in Rhenish and Cologne before the Second World War.
After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne , he devoted himself to studying engineering at the Polytechnic in Charlottenburg . After his extraordinary talent for voice had already been noticed during his studies, he turned to Professor Selva in Padua at the age of 24, from whom he received his first proper musical training. Later he attended the Conservatory in Milan, where he finished his studies with Professor Giovannini. Feinhals began his career as a stage singer at the city theater in Essen. After a brief, successful work in this theater and an engagement at the city theater in Mainz, he was appointed to the royal court opera in Munich in 1898 , where he succeeded Eugen Gura .
His powerful voice and his imposing appearance made him one of the outstanding representatives of Richard Wagner's opera characters. But he was also able to convince as an interpreter of Mozart and Verdi operas. Feinhals gave guest appearances at almost all major opera houses in Europe. He toured America and performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1908 . His brilliant roles were Hans Sachs , Wotan , Telramund , Don Juan , Hans Heiling and Wilhelm Tell . His wife, the alto Elise Feinhals (1869–1924), worked a. a. at the Munich Festival and at the Wagner performances in Amsterdam in smaller roles. The couple had four children with whom they temporarily lived in a villa in Feldafing on Lake Starnberg . After the death of his wife Elise, who was killed in a bus accident in Merano, Italy in 1924, Feinhals was married to Rose Feinhals for the second time. After finishing his career, Fritz Feinhals lived as a teacher in Munich. He ended his career in 1927. He is buried in the crypt of the Feinhals family in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne .
Honors
In 1964 a street in Munich-Obermenzing was named after him.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 249, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Wilhelm Zentner: Feinhals, Friedrich Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 61 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Fritz Feinhals in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Fritz Feinhals at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Klaus Ulrich Spiegel: Elegance and style awareness: the baritone Fritz Feinhals - “Wagner songs to dream” on ku-spiegel.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich S. Soénius / Jürgen Wilhelm, Kölner Personen-Lexikon , 2008, p. 151 f.
- ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten, November 26, 1902
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feinhals, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (baritone) and Royal Bavarian Chamber Singer in Munich |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1940 |
| Place of death | Munich |