Karl Hill

Carl Hills grave on the Sachsenberg

Johann Karl Adam Hill , also Carl Hill (born May 9, 1831 in Idstein ; † January 12, 1893 in Schwerin ) was a German opera singer (baritone).

Life

Karl Hill trained under the direction of the Wiesbaden court opera singer Jeshewiz and the music director Friedrich Wilhelm Rühl in art singing and, although he had moved to the post office box after graduating from high school, sang frequently and with great success in concerts and music festivals, especially in the early 1860s Rhenish cities as well as in Holland.

After the Thurn and Taxis Post was transferred to Prussia (1866), he devoted himself exclusively to art, since he could no longer combine his musical effectiveness with the official one, and two years later he found a job as the first baritone at the court theater in Schwerin , where he up to In 1890 she was one of the first adornments of the opera.

Hill, who was appointed chamber singer by the Grand Duke in 1868 , has, among other things, made a great contribution to the success of the Bayreuth Festival . On January 26, 1873, Richard Wagner attended a performance of the Flying Dutchman at the Schwerin court theater, in which Hill sang the title role. Richard Wagner was so impressed by the vocal rendition and the artistic performance by Karl Hill that immediately after the performance he had him go to Bayreuth at a meal in the Sternhotel , today Haus der Kultur am Pfaffenteich, as Alberich in the first complete performance of the Ring des Nibelungen in 1876. Karl Hill also sang other roles in Bayreuth - in the Flying Dutchman , in Lohengrin , Tannhauser and in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg . In the first performance of Parsifal he gave the Klingsor.

Hill was not able to realize his retirement in Freiburg im Breisgau. The worsening of his nervous condition brought him back to Schwerin, where he entrusted himself to the care at the Sachsenberg sanatorium. On January 12, 1893, the singer died of mental derangement in the Sachsenberg sanatorium and was buried in the local cemetery . A hundred years later, the inscription on his tombstone still tells of a great vocal talent: he was among his peers, a margrave of Frau Musika in her flourishing realms.

literature

Ludwig Eisenberg : Karl Hill . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 434 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
Hill, Karl . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 537.

Web links

Literature about Karl Hill in the state bibliography MV
Karl Hill in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

↑ Karl Heinz Oldag: Unforgotten - your names are still known. A walk through the old cemetery. Schwerin 1996 pp. 35-36.

Remarks

^ Biographical data according to Eisenberg: Born in 1840 and died on January 17, 1893.

personal data
SURNAME	Hill, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hill, Johann Karl Adam (full name); Hill, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Idstein
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1893
Place of death	Schwerin

[2] Karl Heinz Oldag: Unforgotten - your names are still known. A walk through the old cemetery. Schwerin 1996 pp. 35-36.

[1] Biographical data according to Eisenberg: Born in 1840 and died on January 17, 1893.