Henry Theodore Reinhold

Henry Theodore Reinhold (sometimes also called Thomas Reinhold ; * around 1690 probably in Dresden ; † May 14, 1751 in London ) was a German singer with a bass voice who worked in England.

Life

Reinhold's origins are in the dark. The assumption expressed in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians that he was the son of the Dresden Kreuzkantor Theodor Christlieb Reinhold (1682–1755) would mean that his year of birth could hardly have been before 1700.

From around 1736 it can be proven in London, where it was often used by Georg Friedrich Handel . He took part in the premieres of Handel's last two operas, Imeneo (November 22, 1740) and Deidamia (January 10, 1741). Handel later gave him solo parts in the premieres of his oratorios Samson (February 18, 1743), Semele (February 10, 1744), Hercules (January 5, 1745), Belshazzar (March 27, 1745), Judas Maccabaeus (July 1, 1747) , Joshua (March 9, 1748), Alexander Balus (March 23, 1748), Susanna (February 10, 1749), Solomon (March 17, 1749) and Theodora (March 16, 1750).

His son Frederick Charles Reinhold (1741-1815) was also a classical singer.

literature

Suzanne Aspden: Reinhold, Henry Theodore. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson: Reinhold, Henry Theodore. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Robin Humphrey Legge: Reinhold, Thomas . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 48: Reilly - Robins. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1896 (English).
Hans Joachim Marx : The Handel Handbook. Volume 1: Handel and his contemporaries. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2008, ISBN 978-3-89007-685-0 , pp. 812 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).
Hedwig and EH Mueller von Asow (eds.): Georg Friedrich Händel. Biography, letters and writings. With Georg Friedrich Handel's biography of John Mainwaring . Werk-Verlag / Perneder, Lindau / Vienna 1949. Reprint: Olms, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-487-06331-X , p. 158 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Henry Theodore Reinhold at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

↑ The statement in the Dictionary of National Biography (1896) and other older English works that he had the reputation of being an illegitimate son of the "Archbishop of Dresden" is to be referred to the realm of legend, as there was none in the period in question Catholic diocese or archbishopric in Dresden.

personal data
SURNAME	Reinhold, Henry Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reinhold, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German singer with a bass voice
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH	uncertain: Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	May 14, 1751
Place of death	London

[1] The statement in the Dictionary of National Biography (1896) and other older English works that he had the reputation of being an illegitimate son of the "Archbishop of Dresden" is to be referred to the realm of legend, as there was none in the period in question Catholic diocese or archbishopric in Dresden.