Julius Miller

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Julius Miller (his real name was Julius Schlesinger ) (* 1772 in Dresden , deviating 1774, 1781 and 1784; † April 7, 1851 in Charlottenburg ) was a German musician.

Life

Julius Miller appeared in his soprano voice on August 9, 1792 at the coronation celebrations of Francis II in Prague, without having received any musical lessons. Around this time he began studying the violin and embarked on an art tour in 1799 and made his debut in Amsterdam in 1799 with a tenor voice as Tamino in the piece Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . In the same year he also appeared with Christian Wilhelm Klos and Heinrich August Hansing in Flensburg and from 1800 to 1804 he appeared as the first tenor at the court theater in Schleswig , where his opera Der Freybrief was performed for the first time; In 1803 he gave a guest performance in Hamburg . At Easter 1804 he appeared as a soloist in a concert at the Easter Mass in the Leipzig Gewandhaus .

From there he traveled on to Breslau and made his debuts at the Breslau Theater in spring as Belmonte ( Abduction from the Seraglio ), Tarar ( Axur, King of Hormus ) and as Tamino ( The Magic Flute ). He was hired to replace Christian August Joachim Leißring , who had left the theater at Easter 1803, and had his first tenor roles, including the title role of Murney ( The Interrupted Festival of Sacrifice ), Knight Roland ( Orlando paladino ), Count Armand ( The Water Carrier of Luigi Cherubini ), Saint Val ( Fanchon by August von Kotzebue ), Ferrando ( Così fan tutte ). At the theater in Breslau he met Friedrich Wilhelm Berner and Carl Maria von Weber , who had a positive influence on his development as a composer .

In the spring of 1805 he traveled on to Saint Petersburg (Carl Maria von Weber entered his studbook on May 18, 1805 ), but returned to Breslau in August 1805 and gave the Belmonte on August 28, 1805 and worked as a soloist in Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen's Hallelujah of Creation , Carl Maria von Weber's benefit concert on April 3, 1806. On September 26, 1807, his opera The Metamorphosis was premiered at the Breslau Theater ; a piano reduction of the favorite songs was published by Graß & Barth in Breslau in 1808. Carl Maria von Weber later used a number from the opera The Metamorphosis in arranged form as an insert in Anton Fischer's (1778–1808) Singspiel of the same name. On March 29, 1808 he gave his farewell concert in the Breslau Redoutensaal and went to Vienna .

In Vienna, however, Julius Miller only had three less successful guest appearances at the Theater am Kärntnertor on May 24, 1808 as Belmonte , at the Hofburgtheater on June 29, 1808 again as Belmonte and at the Theater an der Wien as Titus ( La clemenza di Tito ) on May 14 , 1808 . July.

From November 6, 1808 to March 25, 1809 he had guest appearances at the Dessau Court Theater Society under director Friedrich Wilhelm Bossann in Leipzig and made his debuts there as Sextus ( La clemenza di Tito ) on November 15, 1808, Belmonte on November 27 , 1808 . November 1808, Tamino on November 30, 1808. On November 17, 1808 he also performed as a concert soloist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus; In 1809 his opera The Cossack Officer was premiered there.

From autumn 1810 to autumn 1813 he appeared in the opera company of Joseph Seconda in Leipzig and Dresden, where he sang Orest ( Iphigénie en Tauride ), the title role in Don Giovanni , Count Armand , Jacob Friburg ( The Swiss Family ) and Montalban ( Marie by Montalban by Peter von Winter ). He was also involved in the Gewandhaus concerts in Leipzig several times, including on January 14, 1812 in a concert by Carl Maria von Weber and Heinrich Joseph Baermann and on January 1, 1813. In February / March 1812, his opera Julie or The Flower Pot in Leipzig Premiered; Carl Maria von Weber maintained close contact with Julius Miller during his visits to Leipzig from December 1811 to January 1812 and in December 1812. Julius Miller visited Carl Maria von Weber in November 1813 in Prague.

In 1814 he followed a call from August von Kotzebue and traveled to Königsberg . During this trip he had a concert appearance in Warsaw on January 26, 1814 and guest appearances in Danzig . In Königsberg he made his debut at the Königsberg City Theater on February 16, 1814 and was employed as the first tenor until 1816 and was involved in the management in October / November 1815. His opera Die Alpenhütte (1814) and the incidental music for August von Kotzebue's Hermann and Thusnelda (August 3, 1815) also premiered in Königsberg . During his stay he taught together with Carl Heinrich Saemann (1790-1860) the later composer Heinrich Dorn in his childhood.

After leaving the theater there he had guest appearances in Berlin on April 20, 1816 as Murney and on May 2, 1816 as Tarar ; after that he was at the theater in Frankfurt am Main from June 6 to 15, 1816 as Murney , Titus , Tamino and Tarar .

From 1816 to July 1817 he had an engagement at the Hoftheater Darmstadt and played guest roles as Joseph and Belmonte on 23/30. June 1816, after which he was employed.

From 1817 to 1818 he was first tenor at the Kassel Court Theater and from 1819 to 1822 at the Amsterdam Theater; during this time he had guest appearances in Hanover in September 1821 ; Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann heard him there and characterizes his voice in art and nature: Sheets from my travel diary . During this time he also toured Germany several times and performed his opera Merope .

In the summer of 1822 he had guest appearances with Josef Derossi in Elberfeld and in August 1822 in Leipzig, then he stayed in Dresden and visited Carl Maria von Weber on November 14, 1822. From there he traveled on to Berlin in November / December 1822 and Potsdam and then in March 1823 to Breslau. In the summer of 1823 he stayed in Vienna and in August 1823 he had a guest appearance in Munich .

From October 1823 to 1825 he was, together with Friedrich Haberkorn († 1826 in Amsterdam), director of the opera at the German Theater in Amsterdam, after which he held various positions as director and singing teacher (in Kassel, Hanover, Berlin and Leipzig) in 1827 he stayed in Paris and gave joint concerts with Louis Drouet in Brussels . He appeared as a singer in Aachen in the winter of 1828/29 , made guest appearances in Riga , Saint Petersburg and Moscow in 1829 , lived in Hamburg and Lübeck in 1830 , worked as a singing teacher in Berlin for some time in 1831 and was theater director in Dessau in the winter of 1832/1833 , in the summer of 1833 in Lauchstädt , in the autumn of 1833 in Halberstadt , in Köthen in 1834 , in Erfurt in early 1835, in Nordhausen in 1835, in Arnstadt in 1835, in Lauchstädt until the beginning of September 1835 and in Nordhausen in the autumn of 1835. In addition to stage works, he mainly composed songs and Chants and church music , plus concert overtures . Its last premiere took place on July 29, 1846 in Dresden with wigs and music or Die Tabacks-Cantata. In 1847 he settled in Leipzig as a singing teacher, then moved to Berlin and died there completely penniless in Charlottenburg.

In the University and State Library of Bonn there is a collection with 12 solfeggias for Princess Luise of Prussia .

Julius Miller was married to Friederike Kirchheim.

Memberships

  • Together with Carl Maria von Weber and Friedrich Wilhelm Berner , he was a member of a musical club in Breslau.
  • He was a member of the Dessau Society until the theater was closed due to the war in April 1810.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann: Art and Nature: Sheets from my travel diary. Meyer, Braunschweig 1823, p. 265 f. ( Digitized versionhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Freader.digitale-sammlungen.de%2Fde%2Ffs1%2Fobject%2FgoToPage%2Fbsb10467158.html%3FpageNo%3D275~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D )
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Jul.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1851
Place of death Charlottenburg