Karl Buff
Karl Buff (born February 13, 1862 in Gießen , † September 13, 1907 in Dresden ) was a German singer.
Life
Buff's great-aunt was Charlotte Buff , who inspired Goethe to develop young Werther's suffering . His parents were the Reich judge Wilhelm Buff and his wife Wilhelmine geb. Müller (1829-1882).
Buff attended the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium and from 1875 the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . In the summer semester of 1880 he enrolled at the Hessian Ludwig University of Law. On March 29, 1880 he renonciert as Buff 11 at Corps Hassia Gießen . He was reciprocated on May 25, 1881 and distinguished himself as a sub- senior and senior . In the winter semester of 1882/83 he moved to the University of Leipzig . Received at Guestphalia Leipzig , he was elected consenior according to Kösener custom . From the winter of 1883 to November 1884 he was back in Giessen.
As a talented tenor he had his voice trained by Gustav Scharfe in Dresden from 1884 to 1887 . At the Hofbühne in Weimar since 1886, he was appointed Grand Ducal Chamber Singer in 1890. In 1887 he joined the Dresden Court Opera as a trainee . From 1888 to 1894 he was engaged at the Weimar court theater . He sang on May 5, 1891 in the world premiere of Gunlöd , on May 10, 1894 in the world premiere of Guntram and in 1892 as Werther in the German premiere of Massenet's opera of the same name . From 1894 to 1897 he appeared at the New Royal Court Theater in Wiesbaden. He was engaged at the Vienna Court Opera in 1897/98 , but followed the call of the Dresden Court Opera in 1899 . He celebrated great success with guest performances at the Berlin Court Opera (1901), at the Deutsches Theater Prague (1901, 1905), at the Volksoper Vienna , the Frankfurt Opera , the Leipzig Opera , the Breslau Opera , at the Theater des Westens (1901), on Hoftheater Darmstadt , at Det Kongelige Teater and other theaters. After he left the stage in 1903, he was appointed Kammersänger in Dresden in 1905 . As a valued concert and lieder singer, he campaigned for contemporary vocal music . After a guest performance in Berlin, he shot himself on the way home on the train to Dresden. The event disturbed the corps brothers because he "... had celebrated happily the days before in Gießen (on the corp house)". The reason for the unmarried man's suicide is not known even with Hassia.
Opera roles
With its bright, especially in high pitches excellent tenor voice, he was primarily in the Italian and French repertoire successful.
- Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia
- Elvino in La Sonnambula
- Arnoldo in Guillaume Tell (Rossini)
- Tonio in La fille du regiment
- Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor
- Manrico in Il trovatore
- Radames in Aida
- Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni
- Tamino in The Magic Flute
- Jacquino in Fidelio
- Lohengrin
- David in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
- George Brown in La Dame Blanche
- Wilhelm Meister in Mignon
- José in Carmen
- Chapelou in Le postillon de Lonjumeau
- Nureddin in The Barber of Baghdad
Recordings
"Six extremely rare titles" (1905–1907) have been preserved on records.
Honors
- Ducal Coburg-Gotha Medal of Merit for Art and Science (1890)
- Grand Ducal Luxembourg Gold Medal for Art and Science (1898)
- Mecidiye Order 3rd Class
- Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin Medal for Art and Science
- Osmanje Order , Commander-in-Chief
- Order of the Crown of Romania , Knight
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 37/652; 92/236
- ↑ a b Large song dictionary
- ↑ History of the Corps Hassia-Gießen in Mainz 1815–1965 . Mainz 1965, p. 382
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buff, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buff, Hans; Giessen, Hans (stage name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tenor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1907 |
| Place of death | Dresden |