Heinrich Vogl

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Heinrich Vogl

Heinrich Vogl (born January 15, 1845 in Munich ; † April 21, 1900 there ) was a German opera singer ( hero tenor ) and composer .

Life

Heinrich Vogl attended the teachers' seminar in Freising at the age of 15, worked as a school assistant from 1862 and was discovered and promoted by the general music director Franz Lachner during an entrance examination for the choir of the Munich court theater in 1865 . He made his debut on November 5, 1865 at the Munich Court Opera , where he was engaged for almost 35 years and is said to have performed in 2095. He was best known for his Wagner roles, for example he sang Lohengrin (1867), Tristan (1869), Loge from the Rheingold (1869) and Siegmund from the Walküre (1870). He also took part in the first performance of the Ring in Bayreuth . He gave numerous guest appearances in all major cities in Germany. Guest trips have taken him to the Netherlands, London, Petersburg and the USA; In 1890 he sang Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera . When mixed choir Zurich he performed from 1872 to 1885 in nine concerts as a soloist. In 1868 Vogl married Therese Thoma , who often appeared with him, especially in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde . He is considered to be one of the most versatile tenors of the 19th century, as he not only embodied almost all the important roles of the operatic repertoire of the time, but also as an oratorio singer in the concerts of the "Musical Academy" (especially as an evangelist in the two passions of Bach) convinced. Vogl was also an important and sought-after song singer. He was a member of the Munich Freemason Lodge Zurkette .

As a composer Heinrich Vogl could not remotely build on his successes as a singer. He had acquired basic compositional knowledge during his time at the teachers' seminar in Freising and then deepened it considerably and applied it in practice in the composition of some songs, which he and some other singers also reached the audience and the critics, but that remained a marginal phenomenon. At the end of the 1890s he began composing the opera Der Fremdling based on a draft for a play by Felix Dahn (whose poem of the same name he had set to music a long time before), which he completed and printed with tremendous efforts. When it was first performed on May 7, 1899, he sang the role of Baldur and thus achieved the greatest of his triumphs as a singer and the only one as a composer. The critics in the various German press organs had identified compositional weaknesses, but on the whole gave rather benevolent assessments and wished the work a future on other stages as well. The disappointment was all the greater when only two repetitions took place in Munich and not a single other opera stage included Heinrich Vogl's opera in their repertoire during his lifetime. It remains to be seen whether the “overexertion” in composing and the “cruel disappointment” about the lack of success of his “child of sorrows” really contributed decisively to his early death barely a year after his greatest triumph, as Hermann von der Pfordten suspected in his necrology. His last appearance was on April 17, 1900.

In 1875 Heinrich and Therese Vogl acquired the Deixlfurter See and a larger part of neighboring corridors. There they created an agricultural estate on which cattle and dairy farming were carried out and in 1881 the first potato distillery in Bavaria opened.

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 1069 ff., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Elizabeth Forbes: Vogl, Heinrich . In: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. by Stanley Sadie, Vol. 20, 1980, p. 58.
  • Herrmann von der Pfordten: Heinrich Vogl. As a reminder and a legacy . Munich, 1900.
  • Rolf Wünnenberg: The singing couple Heinrich and Therese Vogl. Tutzing, 1982.
  • Stephan Hörner / Sebastian Werr : Wagner Minimalia from Tutzing. Heinrich Vogl juniors memories of the singing couple Heinrich and Therese Vogl . In: Musik in Bayern 79/80 (2014/2015) , pp. 123–156.
  • Vogl, Heinrich . In: Großes Sängerlexikon , 2000, pp. 25214-25217.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Vogl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Kopp (ed.): Traubinger Heimatbuch with chronicle. Buchdruckerei Fischer, Weilheim, 1981.
personal data
SURNAME Vogl, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogl, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (hero tenor) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1900
Place of death Munich