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Fritz Wilhelm Polster (born November 8, 1891 in Dürrweitzschen ; † 1971 ) was a German concert singer and important singing teacher .
Life
Polster was born in 1891 as the son of cantor Herrmann Oswald Polster (1853–1925) and his wife Anna Mannewitz (born 1856) in Dürrweitzschen. After preschool there, he attended the Grimma teacher training college. Until 1905 he received music lessons from his father. From 1905 to 1911 he received piano, organ and singing lessons from the music teacher of the seminar, Ossian Reichardt.
In 1914 and after the First World War (1919 to 1921) he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory . His teachers included Oscar Laßner in singing, Otto Weinreich in piano, Otto Wittenbecher in theory and Arthur Seidl in aesthetics.
From 1921 he worked as a singing teacher and concert singer. In 1925 he became Oscar Lassner's assistant at the Leipzig State Conservatory. His students included u. a. Gertrud Birmele , Philine Fischer , Paul Glahn , Ernst Philipp Göpelt , Horst Günter , Kurt Hübenthal , Gisela Lorenz , Anny Quistorp , Hans-Joachim Rotzsch , Evy Tibell and Käte van Tricht , of which Peter Schreier was his most famous.
Polster was of Protestant denomination and had been married to a pianist since 1923, with whom he had two daughters. He was the father of the opera singer Hermann Christian Polster (* 1937), whom he also taught.
literature
- Polster, Fritz . In: Hedwig and Erich Herrmann Mueller von Asow (eds.): Kürschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954 . De Gruyter, Berlin 1954, col. 977.
Web links
- Fritz Polster in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polster, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Polster, Fritz Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concert singer and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dürrweitzschen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1971 |