Max Dawison

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Max Dawison ( silent voices ).

Max Dawison ( February 17, 1869 in Schwedt / Oder - April 22, 1953 in Hamburg ) was a German opera singer ( bass , baritone , bass-baritone ).

Life

Dawison received musical suggestions already at home (his father had a beautiful baritone voice and his siblings also cultivated the art of singing) and after he had finished secondary school, he decided to become a stage singer.

He received his first singing lessons at the Kullak Conservatory in Berlin from Adolf Zebrian . Then he went to the Cologne Conservatory to Benno Stolzenberg . He completed his training with Mariano Padilla y Ramos and Désirée Artôt de Padilla in Paris.

He made his debut in 1889 at the Düsseldorf Opera House as "Heerrufer" in Lohengrin . In the same year he worked at the Kroll Theater in Berlin and made his debut on October 10, 1890 in Prague as " Dutchman ". On May 31, 1900 he said goodbye there as "Hans Sachs" in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg . In February 1900 he caused a considerable stir in Copenhagen as "Wanderer" in the first performance of Siegfried there .

When he was hired for two roles at the Bayreuth Festival in 1903 , Cosima Wagner regretted that no other artist, “only the original Jew from Hamburg”, had been available. At the Bayreuth Festival Dawison appeared as "Alberich" in Der Ring des Nibelungen (1906-1909), as "Friedrich von Telramund" in Lohengrin (1908) and as "Klingsor" in Parsifal (1909).

From 1900 to 1926 he worked at the city theater (opera house) of Hamburg, until 1918 as a permanent member, then as a permanent guest. In Hamburg he sang a. a. in the German premieres of the operas Adriana Lecouvreur (1903; as "Michonnet") and in 1906 in Le jongleur de Notre-Dame by Jules Massenet .

In the course of his career Dawison also appeared in several world premieres of operas: as “Verin” in Donna Diana (Deutsches Theater Prague, December 1894) and in The Broken Jug by Josef Jarno (Hamburg Opera House, January 1903). Dawison was closely connected to the operatic works of Siegfried Wagner . He sang in Hamburg in the world premieres of his operas Der Kobold (January 1904), Brother Lustig (October 1905) and Sternengebot (January 1908).

From 1926 Dawison worked as a singing teacher in Hamburg. In 1929 he became head of the opera school at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin .

repertoire

Dawison's repertoire comprised nearly 150 specialist roles, mostly from the role of the cavalier and the hero baritone . His roles included a. the title role in Don Giovanni , “Lysiart” in Euryanthe , “Mephisto” in Margarethe , “Count Luna” in Il trovatore , “Father Germont” in La traviata , “Count René” in Un ballo in maschera , “Alfio” in Cavalleria rusticana , "Wolfram von Eschenbach" in Tannhäuser and "Jochanaan" in Salome .

literature

Nazi publications

  • Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk (arrangement): Lexicon of Jews in Music. With a list of titles of Jewish works . Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-checked documents, (= publications of the Institute of the NSDAP for research into the Jewish question, vol. 2), Berlin: Bernhard Hahnefeld, 1941, (1st edition 1940, anti-Semitic publication).
  • Hans Brückner, Christa Maria Rock (Ed.): Judentum und Musik - with an ABC of Jewish and non-Aryan music enthusiasts , 3rd edition, Munich: Brückner, 1938, (1st edition 1935, 2nd edition 1936, anti-Semitic publication) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayreuth Week of August 15, 2012, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Dawison, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (bass, baritone, tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwedt / Oder
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1953
Place of death Hamburg