Julius von Raatz-Brockmann

Julius von Raatz-Brockmann (born April 29, 1870 in Hamburg , † December 7, 1944 in Perleberg ) was a German concert singer ( baritone ) and singing teacher .

Life

Raatz-Brockmann first studied law in Bonn and Innsbruck , but then took up vocal training that took him to Berlin and Milan . Although he occasionally appeared on the stage (such as in 1905 at the Dessau court theater in the title role in " Hans Heiling " by Heinrich Marschner ), he had great success in the concert hall - as a soloist in oratorios and sacred musical works, as songs - and ballad singer and especially as Bach - Artist . He also had significant successes outside of Germany: in Vienna (1912), in Copenhagen (1922), in Turin and Oslo (1923), on a tour of Holland (1923), in Zurich (1923), in Riga and Reval (1925) , in Basel (1925), and in Stockholm and Gothenburg (1925–26). He went blind in the late 1920s.

From 1907 he lived in Berlin, where he also worked as a sought-after singing teacher. In 1923 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Among his students were Leonor Engelhard , Emmy Hagemann , Rolf Heide , Jan Heytekker , Otto Hopf , Paul Kötter , Konstanze Nettesheim , Hans Hermann Nissen , Paula Salomon-Lindberg , Arno Schellenberg , Else Schürhoff , Frithjof Sentpaul and Henny Wolff .

KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, second volume M – Z, Sp. 2388, ISBN 3-907820-70-3
German Biographical Encyclopedia , 2nd Edition, Volume 8, ISBN 3598250304 , p. 135
Eva Folz: Raatz-Brockmann and vocal pedagogy: the master on his 60th birthday on April 29, 1930. Wölbing-Verlag, Berlin, 1930

personal data
SURNAME	Raatz-Brockmann, Julius von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German concert singer (baritone) and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 7, 1944
Place of death	Pearl Mountain