Leopold Demuth

Leopold Demuth as "vagabond" in the opera by Leroux (Photo: Grillich , 1909)

Leopold Demuth (actually Leopold Pokorny ; born November 2, 1861 in Brno , † March 4, 1910 in Chernivtsi ) was an imperial and royal chamber and court opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

Demuth, son of a clerk, studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Josef Gänsbacher . In 1889 he made his debut at the Stadttheater in Halle an der Saale . He then worked in Leipzig and Hamburg . From 1898 until his death he was a member of the Vienna Court Opera .

Demuth was particularly successful in works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner . Numerous guest performances led to the Bayreuth Festival in 1889, among others . Between 1902 and 1909 Demuth made numerous records .

Leading roles

• Don Giovanni in Mozart's opera of the same name
• Falstaff in Verdi's opera of the same name
• Rigoletto in Verdi's opera of the same name
• Friedrich von Telramund in Wagner's Lohengrin
• The Dutchman in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman
• Wotan in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
• Hans Sachs in Lortzing 's opera of the same name
• Hans Heiling in Heinrich Marschner 's opera of the same name

Honors

Demuth was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 33 H, Row 7, No. 7). According to him, 1936 in Ottakring the Demuthgasse named.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 182 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Andrea Harrandt: Demuth (own Pokorny), Leopold. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
• Humility, Leopold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 178.

Web links

Commons : Leopold Demuth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sound carrier by Leopold Demuth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Leopold Demuth on allmusic.com with audio samples
• Leopold Demuth as Don Giovanni (photography)
• Leopold Demuth grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery
• Leopold Demuth Sound recording from the archive of the Austrian Media Library : (“As if from a distance from times long past” from The Flying Dutchman )