Max Pichler

Max Pichler

Max Pichler ( October 29, 1860 in Frankfurt am Main - April 1, 1912 ibid) was an opera singer ( tenor ) and singing teacher .

Life

His parents were the Austrian singer Carl Pichler (1821-1893) and his wife Auguste Wiegand , Duke Max Joseph in Bavaria, was his godfather.

Although Pichler came from such eminently musical parents, he did not immediately devote himself to the artistic profession, but became a businessman. However, he did not stay long at this stand, because it drove him mightily on the boards. His father himself became his teacher and after a short study he was able to make his first attempt on the stage as “Tamino” at the Augsburg City Theater .

In 1882 he took on engagement in Sonderhausen and in 1883 at the court theater in Gotha. He then worked for a year as a lyric tenor in Breslau, then in Basel, then again in Gotha and from 1888 to 1890 in Braunschweig, where he was given the honorable task of giving singing lessons to the two eldest sons of Prince Regent Albrecht of Prussia . At that time he also received an invitation from the Duke of Coburg-Gotha to sing the first tenor role in his opera Cassilda .

At the end of the 1880s he was invited to a guest performance at the Kroll Theater in Berlin, where his beautiful voice was applauded and he was valued as a Wagner singer as well as an interpreter of older and younger Italians. A wide variety of theaters competed for this artist, but he accepted a call from his hometown and in 1890 was hired in a preferred position at the united city theaters in Frankfurt.

There it was an adornment of the opera and was bound by a firm contract. Many excellent art venues therefore tried in vain to win Pichler over. The critics praised his eminently musical nature, his artistic taste and his dignified art of singing as well as his no less sensual splendor, lyrical softness and dramatic power of the voice, but also his text pronunciation and his musical phrasing, which always produce the most beneficial impression, as well as the artistic moderation and the nobility of the lecture was generally mentioned with praise. The artist was a grand ducal Saxon-Weimar chamber singer and has not only made himself well known as a stage artist, but is also highly valued as an oratorio singer.

After finishing his active stage career, he worked as a singing teacher in Frankfurt.

His sister Mathilde Pichler was also an opera singer.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Max Pichler . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 785 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

Web links

• Max Pichler in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Max Pichler at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

This article is based on a public domain text from Ludwig Eisenberg's Large Biographical Lexicon of the German Stage in the 19th Century , 1903 edition.

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