Heinrich Kreuzer (singer)

Rudolph Heinrich Kreuzer (born February 16, 1819 in Vienna , † October 26, 1900 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian opera singer (lyric tenor ), theater director and theater director. Heinrich Kreuzer was born as the son of an oil dealer and Helena Kreuzer, who was widowed at an early age.

He belonged to the Jewish religion until 1871. At the age of 54 he converted to the Catholic faith as part of the assimilation of further Jewish circles after the "interdenominational laws" of 1868 in Austria allowed a change of religion. He had all children baptized Evangelicals in the places where they were born and where he was engaged on the stage.

family

He was married to the singer Amalie Kreuzer , b. Fischer (born August 13, 1814 in Prague). From this marriage five children were born, including the singers Marie Kreuzer (1839-1904) and Elise Stephanie Kreuzer (1845-1936). The latter was married to Paul von Thurn und Taxis and after his death in 1879 with the baritone, opera director and later artistic director of the Magdeburg City Theater, Arno Cabisius . Marie Kreuzer married the actor and theater director Ludwig Barnay in 1864 and her second marriage to the actor and director Heinrich Robert .

Life and artistic career

At the age of eight he was one of the singing students at the Vienna Conservatory and was a singer in a Vienna synagogue choir. In 1834 he was accepted as a choir member in the ensemble of the kk Hofoperntheater , where he was trained by Giuseppe Ciccimarra and Joseph Gottdank .

At the age of 17 he got his first engagement as first tenor at the Theater zu Laibach . He then sang on the stages in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Innsbruck, and then went on tour tours through Germany, Switzerland and Belgium. From 1837 to 1838 he sang as a soloist at the Salzburg City Theater . In 1839 he made a brief guest appearance at the Frankfurt Opera House and was then engaged at the Cologne Opera House from 1839 to 1840. He had further engagements at the Hoftheater Mannheim (1840–1845), after guest appearances at various houses then at the Hoftheater Darmstadt (1846–1849), as first tenor at the Vienna Court Opera (1849–1856) and at the Leipzig Opera (1856–1859) . In 1859 he lost his voice, had to interrupt his professional activity and was only able to perform again at the Vienna Court Opera in 1862. At the same time he took over the choir direction there. After he lost his vote again in 1865, his contract there was no longer renewed in 1866. After further guest performances, he was appointed to the management of the Coburg court theater in 1867 . From 1868 to 1869 he worked as a singer and director at the Koblenz City Theater and subsequently from 1869 to 1870 as a theater director. Then he retired to Vienna. In 1876 he went to Graz to give singing lessons there.

Most recently he lived in Baden near Vienna and was buried in the local parish cemetery St. Stephan (group 10, row 01, number 63).

literature

• Cruiser (Heinrich). In: Vienna Yearbook for Contemporary History, Art and Industry and Oesterreichische Walhalla. Publisher by Anton Schweiger, Vienna 1851, pp. 114–115.
• Kreuzer, Heinrich. In: Karl-Josef Kutsch ; Leo Riemens : Large Singer Lexicon , Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, 2004, pp. 2511-2512. ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5
• Kreuzer, Heinrich. In: Hans-Michael Körner : Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, p. 1096. ISBN 978-3-110-97344-0
• Kreuzer, Heinrich. In: Walther Killy ; Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume "Kraatz - Menges", Walter de Gruyter, 2006, pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-3-110-94027-5

Web links

• Heinrich Kreuzer in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kreuzer, Heinrich † , Monthly Issues for Music History Volume 33, Berlin 1900, p. 129.
2. ^ Cruiser Heinrich. In: Yearbook of the Society for Vienna Theater Research, Volume 11, Notring Verlag of the Austrian Scientific Associations, Vienna 1959, p. 121.
3. ↑ Cf. Anna Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". 18,000 resignations from Judaism in Vienna 1868 - 1914. Names, sources, dates. Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 339.
4. ↑ This Judeo-Christian family background plays a special role in the life of the daughter Elise Stephanie Kreuzer , who married the prince's son Paul von Thurn und Taxis / Paul von Fels in 1868 . On this subject, see the publication by Sylvia Alphéus, Lothar Jegensdorf: Paul von Thurn und Taxis. A stubborn life. Munich 2017, pp. 209–248.
5. ↑ Kreuzer (Heinrich). In: Vienna Yearbook for Contemporary History, Art and Industry and Oesterreichische Walhalla. Vienna 1851, pp. 114–115.
6. ↑ Kreuzer, Heinrich. In: Large song dictionary. Volume 4, 2004, pp. 2511-2512.
7. ↑ From near and far. In: Wiener Theater-Chronik , 18th year, No. 46, November 10, 1876, p. 3.