Johann Christoph Gloy
Johann Christoph Gloy ( February 10, 1795 in Lübeck - May 31, 1879 ) was a German opera singer (bass), theater actor and director .
Life
Gloy was the son of the Vogts at the Holy Spirit Hospital Lübeck. Even in his boyhood he showed a good talent for music and as a member of the Lübeck Currende was allowed to visit the Katharineum in Lübeck for half of the school fee.
When he was fifteen years old, he left his father's house on January 13, 1810, to secretly flee to Hamburg. He wanted to become an artist and presented this wish to the famous Hamburg theater director Schröder, but was rejected by him. In return, the singer and actor Hentsch took care of him and gave him a very modest engagement with Sophie Albrecht in Altona. However, when the Albrecht Society dissolved, Gloy found shelter with the Breyer troops in Glückstadt.
The next year he played in Kiel, where he already sang “Sarastro” in Mozart's Magic Flute , while initially playing the third boy in this opera. In the winter of 1812/1813 he played in Flensburg and then drifted around with the remnants of the Breyer troupe in Tondern and on Helgoland, where he gave all possible bass buffo parts and comical roles in comedy.
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On September 6, 1815, he entered the stage of the Hamburg City Theater for the first time as leaseholder Krautmann in Kotzebue's comedy The Two Klingsberge , which has since become the permanent location of his many years of stage activity. Schröder hired him as a bass player, comedian and actor and after a few years gave him the direction, which he retained until 1863.
On September 6, 1865, the celebration of his fifty years of activity took place on the Hamburg stage. He then withdrew from the theater, but was able to enjoy a well-deserved retirement for many more years, since death only pulled him out of life on May 31, 1879.
Johann Christoph Gloy is commemorated in the area of the “Althamburg Memorial Cemetery” of the Ohlsdorf cemetery on the left half of the double collective grave plate “City Theater”.
reception
Gloy enjoyed the greatest respect in Hamburg as well as among German theater connoisseurs. Devrient boasts of him that he was "nature itself in serious and comical roles," as delightfully as Dr. Bartolo, how touching as a little Lorenz child . Outside of Hamburg he was less known; it is only known that in 1825 he made a successful guest appearance in Berlin and Potsdam on the orders of the King of Prussia.
literature
- Hermann Arthur Lier: Gloy, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 399.
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Johann Christoph Gloy . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 332 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Web links
- Johann Christoph Gloy at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Arthur Lier: Gloy, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 399.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gloy, Johann Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (bass), theater actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1879 |