Max Hofmüller
Max Hofmüller (born October 13, 1881 in Darmstadt , † June 26, 1981 in Munich ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ), senior director, artistic director and general music director. He was the son of the opera singer and famous Wagner interpreter Sebastian Hofmüller (1855–1923).
Live and act
As a result of his father's ten-year employment in Dresden from 1890, Max Hofmüller spent "the formative years of his youth" in the nearby town of Niederlößnitz (Villa Sängers Heim , Gradsteg 42). From 1901 to 1904 Hofmüller worked as a répétiteur at the Schwerin court theater. He began to study singing himself and made his debut at the Municipal Theater in Strasbourg in 1911. With interruptions due to military service, he stayed in Strasbourg until 1918.
Then he switched to the opera direction: from 1919 to 1923 he was at the opera house in Hanover and from 1923 to 1928 as chief director at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. From 1928 until 1933 he was employed as artistic director at the Cologne Opera .
From 1931 he worked several times at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.
From 1935 to 1938 he worked at the Volksoper in Berlin and from 1936 to 1944 as senior director at the Dresden Semperoper . There he staged the world premiere of the Strauss opera Daphne on October 15, 1938 .
At the Salzburg Festival in 1938 he directed Wagner's Tannhäuser .
After the Second World War he went back to Munich and worked there from 1947 to 1949 as senior director and artistic director at the Bavarian State Theaters.
One of his students was the bassist or baritone Hugo Schäfer-Schuchardt (1907–1974).
Works
Scores
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , Max Hofmüller (arr.): Sonata a tre. For 2 violins, violoncello etc. Piano. Beyer, Langensalza.
Fonts
- Basics of breathing technique in art singing. Self-published / Musik-Verlag Doblinger (in comm.), Munich 1963.
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 3. 4th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 2116 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Franz Trenner, Florian Trenner (ed.): Richard Strauss: Chronicle of life and work. R. Strauss, Vienna 2003, ISBN 9783901974014 .
Web links
- Max Hofmüller in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Andert: Golden theater souvenirs. (PDF; 228 KB) Part 53. In: Kötzschenbrodaer stories. January 2012 accessed on 18 October 2016 .
- ^ Schwering, Leo (Best. 1193) A 188: Max Hofmüller, senior director at the Bavarian State Theaters; Duration: March 6, 1947. - Digital Historical Archive Cologne
- ^ Rüdiger Bolz: Broadcasting and literature under American control: The program offered by Radio Munich 1945-1949. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1991, ISBN 9783447028691 , p. 481 ( limited preview in Google book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hofmüller, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor), senior director, artistic director and general music director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1981 |
| Place of death | Munich |