Joseph Wolff (singer)

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Gravestone in the Speyer cemetery

Joseph Wolff (* 18th May 1841 in Speyer ; † 23. June 1903 ) was a German concert and opera singer of the vocal range tenor .

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Joseph Wolff was a well-known concert and opera singer of the lyric tenor type . He worked u. a. in Berlin, Cologne, Darmstadt, Leipzig, Breslau and Hamburg. In the latter city, coming from Breslau, he worked for a decade at the Hamburg City Theater from 1879 , where he always had to cast the tenor roles in game operas. The director Bernhard Pollini (1838-1896) had personally endeavored to move there.

At the beginning of the 1890s, Wolff returned permanently to his hometown Speyer. He died here in 1903 and was buried in the main cemetery. His grave has been preserved there (2012) and has an extraordinary Art Nouveau gravestone with a lyre , sheet music and theater masks.

Joseph Wolff maintained a personal friendship with the composer Richard Wagner .

literature

  • Franz Bösken , Hubert Unverricht: Music and musicians on the Middle Rhine: a biographical, local and regional history reference work , issue 21, Schott, 1981, pages 163 and 164; Excerpt from the source
  • Fritz Klotz: Speyer: small town history , Speyer district group of the Palatinate Historical Society, 1988, page 169; Excerpt from the source
  • Heinrich Chevalley: Hundred Years of Hamburg City Theater , 1927, page 115; Excerpt from the source

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Pollini, Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 172 f.
  2. ^ Heinrich Chevalley: Hundred Years of Hamburg City Theater , 1927, page 115
  3. ↑ Franz Bösken, Hubert Unverricht: Music and musicians on the Middle Rhine: a biographical, local u. Regional history reference work , issue 21, Schott, 1981, page 163
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert and opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1903
Place of death Speyer