George Henschel
Sir George Henschel, b. Georg Isidor Henschel (born February 18, 1850 in Breslau , † September 10, 1934 in Aviemore , Scotland ) was a German-British singer (baritone), singing teacher , composer and conductor .
Life
George Henschel studied at the conservatories in Leipzig and Berlin and soon became known as a conductor and concert singer.
He was friends with Johannes Brahms since 1874 and exchanged letters with him ( Personal recollections of Johannes Brahms , 1907). From 1877 to 1879 he stayed as a conductor and singer in England , where he had Lillian June Bailey as a student in 1877 and who became his first wife in 1881. The two later celebrated great success as a pair of singers performing together.
From 1881 to 1884 Henschel conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra , newly founded by Henry Lee Higginson (1834-1919) , but then settled in London again. He directed the London Symphony Concerts there until 1886 and was on tour as a sought-after concert and lieder singer. In 1886 he became a singing teacher at the Royal College of Music in London and conducted the Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow from 1893–95 . Henschel composed several operas, several hundred songs and an eight-part mass and promoted the popularization of Viennese classical music in England.
Six years after the death of his first wife, he remarried a schoolgirl in 1907 and worked as a concert singer until 1914. In the same year, Henschel, who had been a British citizen since 1890, was knighted as a Knight Bachelor ("Sir"). Afterwards he wrote two books with a strong autobiographical color, in which he also passed on his music education experience.
Throughout his life he was a close friend of Max Brode , whom he had met in Leipzig.
literature
- Musings and Memories of a Musician , 1918
- Articulation in Singing , 1926
Web links
- Literature by and about George Henschel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Painting "Portrait of the Singer George Henschel" by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- Boston Symphony Orchestra ( September 28, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive )
George Henschel (1881–1884) | Wilhelm Gericke (1884–1889) | Arthur Nikisch (1889-1893) | Emil Paur (1893–1898) | Wilhelm Gericke (1898–1906) | Karl Muck (1906–1908) | Max Fiedler (1908–1912) | Karl Muck (1912–1918) | Henri Rabaud (1918–1919) | Pierre Monteux (1919–1924) | Sergei Alexandrowitsch Kusewizki (1924–1949) | Charles Münch (1949–1962) | Erich Leinsdorf (1962–1969) | William Steinberg (1969–1972) | Seiji Ozawa (1973-2002) | James Levine (2004-2011) | Andris Nelsons (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henschel, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henschel, George Isidor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British singer (baritone), singing teacher, composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1934 |
| Place of death | Aviemore , Scotland |