Hermann Breiting
Hermann Breiting ( October 24, 1804 in Augsburg - December 4, 1860 in the Hofheim Hospital in Riedstadt ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).
Life
Breiting, the son of a doctor, had originally studied in Erlangen, where he had become a member of the Erlangen fraternity in the winter semester of 1822/23 , and medicine in Würzburg from 1823 to 1826, where he had become a member of the Würzburg fraternity in 1823 , but his wonderful Voice prompted him to go to the stage and make his debut in Mannheim in 1825 as Titus in Mozart's opera. In 1827 he made a guest appearance in Munich. His reputation spread quickly, Gaspare Spontini brought him to Berlin in 1828 and engaged him for six years on the Royal Stage, but he had to give up his contract in January 1829 due to a nervous disease.
After his recovery he made a guest appearance at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna in 1832 and then became a member of the kk Opera ; In 1837 he went to Darmstadt, in 1839 to Petersburg, from where he returned to his homeland in 1842. From here he visited London twice, where he received general acclaim in Prince's and Coventgardentheaters . When he returned to Darmstadt in 1856, like Josef Staudigl, he again suffered from nerves and was so mentally ill that he had to be admitted to the insane asylum, where he also died in complete mental derangement.
In 1848 he was director of the Darmstadt Court Theater with Carl Johann Franz Josef Becker and Kapellmeister Wilhelm.
His star roles were "George Brown", "Masaniello", "Fra Diavolo", "Gustav", "Robert", "Eleazar". “Ferdinand Cortez” is said to never have been sung again with the same bravura and genius.
literature
- Works by Hermann Breiting at Zeno.org .
- Julius Loewenberg: Breiting, Herrmann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 294.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 126, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 90–91.
Web links
- Hermann Breiting in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 77.
- ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 72, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breiting, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1860 |
| Place of death | Riedstadt |