Heinrich Gudehus

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Heinrich Gudehus as Siegfried in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

Heinrich Wilhelm Gudehus (born March 30, 1842 in Altenhagen near Celle , † October 9, 1909 in Dresden ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Grave of Heinrich Gudehus in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden

Heinrich Gudehus was the fourth child of the school teacher Heinrich Wilhelm Gudehus and his wife Marie Dorothee, geb. Martens. Heinrich Gudehus received piano and organ lessons from Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze (city and palace organist in Celle ); afterwards training as a teacher and employment at schools in Celle. From 1866 Gudehus worked as a teacher, later also as a gym teacher in Goslar; in addition, he was organist at the Marktkirche in Goslar . Gudehus then turned to solo singing and stopped teaching and organizing.

Gudehus joined the Kgl in 1870 as a student . Hofoper Berlin . After his first major successes (including as Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute ), he asked for his dismissal in order to perfect his vocal training with Malvina von Carolsfeld .

Afterwards Gudehus appeared on the following stages: City Theater Riga (1875), Theater Lübeck (1876), City Theater Freiburg (1877), City Theater Hamburg (April 1878), City Theater Bremen (September 1878). In the summer of 1879 Gudehus was hired as a guest at the Dresden Court Opera ; from May 1880 to 1890 Gudehus was permanently engaged there.

While working at the Dresden Court Opera in 1881, Gudehus met Richard Wagner , who was so convinced of Gudehus that he chose him (alongside Hermann Winkelmann ) as one of the first two singers in the Parsifal stage consecration festival at the Bayreuth Festival , which premiered in 1882 . Gudehus also sang at the festival in 1884 and 1886 ( first Tristan , Stolzing ). Guest performances took Gudehus to the Covent Garden Opera in London in 1884 , to Riga in 1888 and to the Metropolitan Opera New York in 1890/1891 . From 1890 to 1895 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Kgl. Court Opera Berlin. In 1896 Gudehus retired and then (from 1899) worked as a singing teacher. He lost a considerable fortune in the so-called Leipzig bank crash (1901). Heinrich Gudehus was buried in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden.

family

Heinrich Gudehus married Caroline Johanne Klippel on July 17, 1866 in Celle; she died after a stillbirth on May 2, 1867 in Goslar. Thereupon Gudehus married the sister of his first wife, Dorothee Friederike, in Celle on December 20, 1868. This also died soon, on December 7th, 1869. Gudehus was married to Elisabeth Tovote for the third time (marriage on May 22nd, 1877 in Meppen); from this marriage were two daughters and two sons.

honors and awards

The city of Dresden called in the district Reick the Gudehusstraße by Heinrich Gudehus.

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 364 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Baptismal register of the town church of Celle 1842, No. 107.
  • Harald Müller: Lexicon Celler musicians . Celler contributions to regional and cultural history - series of publications by the city archive and the Bomann Museum Volume 31. Ed. City of Celle.
  • Carl Friedrich Glasenapp : The Life of Richard Wagner. Leipzig 1911.
  • Peter Fündeling: See, the meadow is laughing ... Heinrich Gudehus. Biography of the Royal Saxon Chamber Singer. Laatzen 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Lars Herrmann: Streets and squares in Reick. Retrieved December 3, 2010 .