Karl Johann Brulliot

Karl Johann Brulliot ( July 31, 1831 in Munich - March 13, 1897 there ) was a German lawyer , singer ( bass ), theater actor , opera director , artistic director and singing teacher .

Life

Karl Johann Brulliot was the son of the long-time curator of the Munich copper engraving collection, Franz Brulliot , a scholar of reputation; his grandfather was the painter Joseph Brulliot . After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1850 , he moved to the university in his hometown to study law. He also took singing lessons at the conservatory under Franz Hauser's direction and began his singing career in 1853 as the first bassist at the court theater in Karlsruhe.

Here he worked after he was last entrusted with the management of this court stage, until in 1873 he followed an application to the court theater in Munich. At first he also worked there as a singer, but later only as an actor.

He achieved his greatest merits as an opera director, for example with the first complete performance of the Nibelungenring. He was appointed professor for drama and opera at the Royal Music School in Munich.

In 1892 he retired, earlier to the royal. Appointed chief director, retired from stage work due to illness, but continued teaching for some time. On March 24, 1897, he succumbed to his ailment.

Brulliot was married to the former singer Anna Masnis-Braunhofer .

Student (selection)

• Felix Ehrl
• Johann Messchaert
• Emilie Welti

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Karl Johann Brulliot . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 133 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

Web links

• Karl Johann Brulliot in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . 4 volumes. Munich 1970–1976; Volume 4, p. 49.
2. ↑ Karl Johann Brulliot at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon , accessed on January 8, 2015.

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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