Max Johann Seidel
Max Johann Seidel , fully Johann Baptist Max Gangranelli Seidel (born February 18, 1790 in Innsbruck , † September 3, 1855 in Weimar ) was an Austrian opera singer ( tenorbuffo ), actor, director and librettist.
Life
Seidel played for a long time in wandering companies until he found a job at the Hoftheater Weimar in 1822 , where he mainly appeared in comic roles and soon became the darling of the public. On May 16, 1831, Goethe wrote to him that he should give the Weimar painter Johann Joseph Schmeller “a few hours” for a portrait so that Goethe could “add the portrait to a collection of other people I valued”. The portrait - black and white chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper - came into the possession of the Goethe National Museum after Goethe's death .
Seidel was close friends with Johann Nepomuk Hummel and became his first biographer. His 1837/38 with the support of Hummel's widow Elisabeth Hummel geb. Memories of the composer written by Röckel also describe Hummel's lessons with Mozart and have so far only been published in part.
He was the holder of the gold medal of merit and last lived at Brauhausgasse 99c, where he died on September 3, 1855 of "lung stroke".
family
Seidel was born with the actress Dorothea Friederike ("Doris") Seidel. Wagner (* 1804 in Bremen ; † 1860 in Weimar) who worked in Weimar from 1823.
Works
- The Carpet Dealer , libretto for the play of the same name by Carl Eberwein , world premiere on February 3, 1830 in Weimar
- The Traitor in the Alps , libretto for the opera of the same name by Eduard Franz Genast , first performance on April 17, 1833 in Weimar
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Seidel, Max Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 34th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, p. 11 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Herloßsohn , Hermann Marggraff a . a. (Ed.) Allgemeine Theater-Lexikon , (Altenburg and Leipzig [n. J.], 8 °.), New edition, Vol. VI., P. 320.
- Karl Benyovszky , JN Hummel: Man and Artist , Bratislava: Eos 1934
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Composer of the Goethe era, and his son Carl , landscape painter of the late Weimar , catalog, ed. by Christina Kroell and Hartmut Schmidt, Düsseldorf 1971
- Michael Dirrigl, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Personality and Work , 1982, p. 239 (Seidel's report on Goethe)
- Goethe and Tyrol , ed. by Erich Egg, Innsbruck 1982, p. 14 (with a portrait of Seidel by Johann Joseph Schneller)
- Albert Lortzing , Complete Letters , ed. by Irmlind Capelle , Kassel: Bärenreiter 1995, p. 89
- Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 69 (2006), p. 220 (Seidel reports in a letter to Ludwig Tieck )
- Anton Neumayr, famous composers in the mirror of medicine: Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Niccolò Paganini , Richard Wagner , Anton Bruckner , Iberia 2007 (Seidel reported in 1833 to Oberhofmarschall Carl Emil von Spiegel about Hummel's illness)
- Klaus Martin Kopitz , “You knew Mozart?” Unknown and forgotten memories of Beethoven , Haydn , Hummel and other contemporaries of Mozart , in: Mozart Studies , Volume 20 (2011), pp. 269–309, here pp. 288–292, ISBN 978-3-86296-025-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data after the death entry in Weimar, Herz-Jesu-Kirche , Matriken 1838–1884, p. 40 No. 141
- ^ Goethe's letters, 1831
- ↑ Willy Handrick, Johann Joseph Schmeller . A painter in the service of Goethe , Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 1966, p. 168f.
- ↑ The Carpet Dealer Theater ticket for the premiere
- ↑ The Traitor in the Alps , theater bill of the world premiere
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seidel, Max Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seidel, Johann Baptist Max Gangranelli (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (tenorbuffo), actor, director and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1855 |
| Place of death | Weimar |