Jacques piece gold
Jacques piece of gold , and Jacob piece of gold (born January 17 . Jul / 29. January 1877 . Greg in Warsaw , Russian Empire , died 4. May 1953 in New York ) was a Polish - German - American singer ( tenor ) and voice teacher .
Life
Jacques Stückgold was the son of the banker Schlama Stückgold and Eva Rotmil, his older cousin was the engineer and painter Stanislaus Stückgold . He grew up in an upper class Jewish family interested in music. He studied singing in Warsaw, Milan, Venice and Pesaro, a. a. with Alessandro Bonci , Ottavio Nouvelli and Felice Coen.
Stückgold became a singing teacher, first in Karlsruhe in 1899 and then in Munich , where he also sang at the Court Opera . In 1924 he was appointed as a singing professor at the Berlin Music Academy.
Stückgold married his singing student Grete Schneidt , who made a great career as a soprano , they had their daughter Eva, who was born in 1919, and they divorced in 1929. Even before the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Berlin lecturers such as Max Trapp , Romuald Wikarski and Valeska Burgstaller demanded that the rector Georg Schünemann be removed from the university for racist reasons emigrate. From 1933 to 1937 he was still professor of singing at City College New York .
His students included Marcella Craft , Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender , Zdenka Faßbender , Pál Komáromy , Anny Konetzni , Bruce Low , Zinka Milanov , Hans Tänzler , Marcel Wittrisch and Fritz Zohsel .
Fonts (selection)
- About the art of voice training
- The bankruptcy of German singing
literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss , (Ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1144
- Jacques Stückgold in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
- Large song dictionary , CD-ROM, Directmedia, Berlin 2000, p. 23567 f.
- Jacques Stückgold in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dietmar Schenk: The Berlin University of Music: Prussian Conservatory between Romantic Classicism and New Music, 1869-1932/33 . Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004, p. 101, p. 138
- ^ Stückgold, Jacques , at Max Hoerberg
- ↑ on Valeska Burgstaller see Johannes Laas: The sacred choral work of Max Baumann: Church music in the field of tension of the Second Vatican Council . Paderborn: Schöningh, 2013. Zugl .: Berlin, Univ. der Künste, Diss., 2012 DNB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piece of gold, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piece of gold, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-German-American singer (tenor) and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4th 1953 |
| Place of death | new York |