Ignaz Schuster
Ignaz Schuster (born July 20, 1779 in Vienna ; † November 6, 1835 there ) was an Austrian singer (bass), actor and composer of the old Viennese folk theater .
Life
Schuster began his career at the theater as a singer, but soon switched to spoken theater. After engagements at various stages, he came to the Leopoldstädter Theater . There he joined in 1813 , the citizens of Vienna of Adolf Bäuerle and found it in the figure of the umbrella maker Chrysostom Staberl the role of his life. In the following years, several stabberliaden in the typical Viennese character comedy followed .
From 1817 Ferdinand Raimund and Schuster were competitors at the Leopoldstadt Theater ; but they did not appear together for the first time until 1830.
Between 1812 and 1828 Schuster also worked as a director at the Leopoldstädter Theater and composed, among others, the incidental music for Adolf Bäuerle , Joachim Perinet and Josef Alois Gleich .
Ignaz Schuster died on November 6, 1835 in Vienna at the age of 56. He and was buried at the General Währinger Friedhof .
His brother Josef Anton Schuster (1770-1852) was an actor and librettist, his other brother Anton Schuster a singer (tenor).
Works
- The Adventures of a Real Shawl in Vienna (1820)
- Baron Barefoot (1804)
- Cora, the sun maiden (1812)
- Hamlet, Prince of the Tandelmarkt (1807)
- Jupiter in Vienna (1825)
- The Palace of Truth (1810)
- The upside-down world (1814)
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 943, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schuster, Ignaz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 240–247 ( digitized version ).
- Rommel, Otto: The old Viennese folk comedy . - Vienna: sn, 1952
- Mayer, Norbert I .: Ignaz Schuster and the development of the play from Laroche to Raimund in the change of the theatrical genres of the popular theater . - Vienna, Univ. Diss., 1965
Web links
- Works by and about Ignaz Schuster in the German Digital Library
- Entry on Ignaz Schuster in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Ignaz Schuster at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuster, Ignaz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian singer (bass), actor and composer of the Alt-Wiener Volkstheater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1835 |
| Place of death | Vienna |