Johann Nepomuk Beck
Johann Nepomuk Beck ( May 5, 1827 in Pest , Austrian Empire - April 9, 1904 in Preßburg , Austria-Hungary ) was an opera singer ( baritone ).
Life
Beck first studied law, but then his voice was discovered by the court opera singers Karl Formes and Josef Erl in Vienna in 1846.
After brief training in drama and singing, he gave a rehearsal performance in 1846 at the German Opera House in Budapest as "Riccardo" in Bellini's I Puritani .
He made his actual debut shortly afterwards at the Vienna Court Opera as the “speaker” in Mozart's Magic Flute .
He then went to Germany and gave guest performances and engagements in Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mainz, Würzburg and Wiesbaden. From 1851 to 1853 he worked at the Frankfurt Opera House.
In 1853 he went to the Imperial Court Opera in Vienna. He stayed there until his farewell performance on May 30, 1885. In 1881 he was made an honorary member of the Court Opera .
Around 1895 he (like his colleague Josef Staudigl ) fell into mental derangement and had to be admitted to the “mental hospital for mentally and mentally ill people” in Inzersdorf . His condition improved so much that he could be released and then live in Pressburg. Josef Beck , his son, also an opera singer, ended his career to look after his seriously ill father, but he died a year before his death in February 1903.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 69, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Ludwig Eisenberg: The spiritual Vienna. Lexicon of artists and writers. Communications about Viennese architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers . Volume 1. Vienna: Daberkow 1889 ff.
- Ludwig Eisenberg: The spiritual Vienna. Lexicon of artists and writers. Communications about Viennese architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers . Volume 2. Vienna: Daberkow 1892 ff.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Beck, Johann Nepomuk (singer) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printer L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 212 ( digitized version ).
- Beck, Johann Nep. (1828-1904), singer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 60 f. (Direct links on p. 60 , p. 61 ).
- Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz: Beck, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- Franz Hadamowsky , Alexander Witeschnik : Hundred Years of Vienna Opera on the Ring [anniversary exhibition]. Vienna: Action Committee 100 year celebration of the Vienna State Opera 1969, p. 49
Web links
- Johann Nepomuk Beck in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Johann Nepomuk Beck in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Johann Nepomuk Beck at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Johann Nepomuk Beck Picture in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
- Johann Nepomuk Beck's appearances at the Vienna State Opera
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Johann Nepomuk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Opera singer (baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pest , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1904 |
| Place of death | Pressburg , Austria-Hungary |