Heinrich Schmidt (actor, 1809)

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Heinrich Maria Schmidt, oil painting by Vogelstein , around 1835

Heinrich Maria Schmidt (born February 18, 1809 in Lübeck , † May 3, 1870 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ), actor , director and composer .

Theater Leipzig, steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne , 1850
Semper's first opera house in Dresden, opened in 1841 (colored engraving after FE Schmidt)
JCA Richter : Semper's first Dresden court theater

Life

Heinrich Schmidt had his tenor voice trained against the wishes of his parents' house, a respected Lübeck merchant, and earned his living as a singing teacher and concert singer. In 1829 he traveled to Vienna to perfect himself with the singer and teacher Giuseppe Ciccimarra . He then received engagements at the Hoftheater Braunschweig (1830-1833), Hoftheater Kassel (1833-1836) and Stadttheater Breslau (1836-1838) before he was committed to the Leipzig City Theater in 1838 , where he was very successful until 1844. Engagements at the Stadttheater Bremen (1844–1845) and Hoftheater Detmold (1845–1847) followed. At Semper's new court opera in Dresden, Schmidt was not only active as a singer from 1847–1850, but also as an actor and director. During his entire career, Schmidt also had guest roles at the most important court theaters of his time a. a. in Berlin and Dresden, but also performed as a concert and oratorio singer. Schmidt composed songs and music for string instruments as well as some operas.

After finishing his engagement in Dresden in 1850, Schmidt returned to his hometown Lübeck, where he worked as a singing teacher and regularly published the work Gesang und Oper . According to the "letter database of the Schumann letter edition", Schmidt is said to have headed the Singakademie and the Liedertafel in Lübeck, and he was a long-time employee of the NZfM ( New Magazine for Music ).

According to Eisenberg, Schmidt is said to have died in an accident in the 1850s, and the German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) names Leipzig as the place of death for May 3, 1854. According to the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung , on May 3, 1870, the “ visiting singing teacher MH Schmidt from Lübeck ”.

family

Schmidt was initially married to the actress Anna Western . Their daughter, from Western's first marriage, Sofie (* 1814), trained as a stage actress by her stepfather, became the wife of the actor Johann Heinrich Schmitz . Heinrich Maria Schmidt's son Felix Schmidt (1848–1927) from his marriage to Marie Möllinger, was married to the concert singer Marie Schmidt-Kühne (* 1858). He was a well-known concert bassist and educator.

reception

In particular, the Leipzig opera audience celebrated Heinrich Maria Schmidt as a dramatic singer because of his powerful, persistent and modulatory tenor voice. Schmidt also made a name for himself as an actor because of his versatility and talent for prose and declamation.

Stage roles (selection)

Works (selection)

See in the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM).

  • Songs
  • Music for string instruments ( quartets )
  • Operas:
    • Heinrich and Fleurette.
    • The sealed mayor (first performed in Dresden 1847).

literature

  • Robert Blum , Carl Herlossohn , Hermann Marggraff : General theater lexicon or encyclopedia of everything worth knowing for stage performers, amateurs and theater fans, Niccolini to Sisyphus. Volume 6. Verlag Expedition des Theater-Lexikons, Altenburg / Leipzig 1842, pp. 279–280 ( detailed biography at Internet Archive ).
  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Verlag von Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 895 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Franz Stieger: Opera Lexicon. Verlag Schneider, 1983, ISBN 3-7952-0259-0 .
  • Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical directory for theater, dance and music. Volume 2: M-Z. Berlin-Verlag Spitz, 1997, p. 1660 f. (with references).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the letter database of the Schumann letter edition, full name: Maria (Christian) Heinrich Schmidt.
  2. ↑ Franz Stieger at musicsack.com, accessed on March 19 of 2019.
  3. ^ Almanac for friends of the art of acting for January 1, 1851. Ed. By A. Heinrich. Volume 15, for the autumn 1849 to autumn 1850 season, Berlin 1851, p. 98 ( scan in Google book search).
  4. ↑ [Review of Issues 1 and 2 of] "Gesang und Oper". In: Niederrheinische Musik-Zeitung for art lovers and artists. No. 32, August 10, 1861, p. 252 ff. ( Scan in Google book search)
  5. ^ [Review of] Singing and Opera. Booklet 3, Magdeburg [place of printing] 1862. In: Lübeckische Blätter . No. 13, March 30, 1862, p. 101 f., Here: p. 102, column 1 ( scan in Google book search).
  6. ^ Lübeck men's choir from 1842 e. V. ( Memento from January 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: luebecker-maennerchor.de, October 2, 2009, accessed on March 19, 2019 (PDF; 82 kB; Lübecker Liedertafel founded in 1842).
  7. ↑ Neue Berliner Musikzeitung. May 11, 1870, No. 19, p. 149 (on the death of MH Schmidt; digital-sammlungen.de of the Munich digitization center ).
  8. ^ According to Ulrich, p. 1658: Felix Schmidt: geb. May 11, 1848 in Dresden, died September 3, 1927 in Berlin. Mother: Marie Möllinger. Wife: Maria Dorothea Schmidt-Köhne. Daughter: Senta Schmidt (with references)
  9. ^ According to Ulrich, p. 1664: Maria Dorothea Schmidt-Köhne, born. December 31, 1858 in Neustettin, singer. Father: Carl Köhne. Mother: Maria Nino (with reference to the source).

Remarks

  1. ^ In the Lübeck address book 1854 there is an entry for "Schmidt, Maria Heinr., Singing Teacher, lower Mengstr. MMQ 95 ".
  2. ^ The Lübeck Singing Academy has only been known under this name since 1888. Our vita. In: luebecker-singakademie.de, accessed on March 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ But also in Berlin there was a singing academy and a song board during Schmidt's time .
  4. ^ In Eisenberg's appendix (pp. 1174–1176) there is a detailed list of sources but without reference to the individual biographies.
  5. ^ Kutsch: Schmidt, Heinrich (Maria). In: German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. 12 volumes. Volume 9: Schlumberger – Thiersch. Edited by Rudolf Vierhaus . K. G. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25039-2 , p. 42 ( scan in the Google book search; with reference to Karl J. Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon . 4., exp. And act. Edition. 7 volumes. Munich 2003).
  6. ↑ Commentary on Schmidt's role in Caramo. In: Albert Lortzing and the conversation opera in the first half of the 19th century. Report from the round table on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Albert Lortzing on October 22nd and 23rd, 2001 in the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold. On behalf of the Albert-Lortzing-Gesellschaft e. V. ed. by Irmlind Capelle. Allitera, Munich 2010, ISBN 3-86520-076-1 , p. 77, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201708093921 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  7. ^ Schmidt's comment on Lortzing's Casanova. In: New magazine for music . 16 (1842/1) ( albertlortzing.org ).
  8. ↑ Work information only via RISM-OPAC , search: “Schmidt, Heinrich Maria” (cannot be linked due to session ID).
  9. ↑ Some song texts ( Memento from January 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at The LiederNet Archive .
  10. ^ Review of the Leipzig performance by Heinrich and Fleurette. In: General musical newspaper . No. 15, April 14, 1841, Col. 314-317, here: Col. 315 f. ( Scan at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ; scan in the Google book search).
  11. ↑ Libretto from The Sealed Mayor at Libretto Portal of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
  12. ↑ Further volumes and editions in the Wikisource article Theater, section “Lexica”.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Heinrich Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, actor, director and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1870
Place of death Berlin