Martin Härtinger

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Martin Härtinger

Franz Martin Härtinger (born February 6, 1815 in Ingolstadt , † September 4, 1896 in Munich ) was a German medic who became known as an opera singer (tenor).

Life

Härtinger studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University and became a member of the Corps Suevia Munich in 1837 . In 1840 he completed his studies with a doctorate to become Dr. med. from. He was assigned a district to practice medical practice. Aloys Bayer , the first tenor of the Munich court opera , with whom he had his voice trained for three and a half years while studying medicine, won him over to the stage.

On the recommendation of Franz Lachner , he was engaged by his brother Vincenz in Mannheim in February 1841 in the role of Tamino as the first tenor. Soon Härtinger was invited to guest performances by other theaters. As early as 1842 he returned to Munich, where he signed a contract with very advantageous conditions at the court theater as the successor to his former singing teacher. For twelve years he was on the Munich stage without interruption and performed almost all of the tenor roles of different styles known at the time. He was unable to take advantage of offers for guest performances and engagements from all over Europe because of the rigid attitude of the Munich directorship. His requests for dismissal, which were submitted several times, were rejected with reference to his contract, until a scandal broke out in the summer of 1854 after differences with the artistic director Dingelstedt about a non-contractual leave requested for health reasons and Härtinger applied for his early retirement, which was provisionally approved in 1855 and definitively approved in 1858 has been.

For several years he worked as a concert and lied singer. B. 1856 at the 100th Mozart anniversary in Salzburg and in 1857 in a big concert in the Odeon (Munich) , and also privately as a singing teacher. When in 1867 the Munich Royal Music School was founded by Ludwig II (Bavaria) as a successor institute to the Conservatory according to the plan developed by Richard Wagner , Härtinger took over the position of teacher for solo singing, in which he taught until 1884. He experienced his 80th birthday in 1895 in full mental and physical freshness. Just a year and a half later, he died of a sudden heart condition.

The Härtingerstrasse in the Munich district of Pasing-Obermenzing and in the Ingolstadt district of Haunwöhr bear his name.

Publications

  • The Basic Law of Voice Training for Artistic Singing . Schott Sons, 1872; Reprint 2018, ISBN 978-1390154238 .

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910 178/222
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The human voice .
personal data
SURNAME Hartinger, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Härtinger, Franz Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor) and singing teacher, initially a doctor
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1896
Place of death Munich