Mia Beyerl

Mia Beyerl, born in Vienna in 1928

Maria Anna "Mia" Beyerl (born December 26, 1900 in Linz ; † May 24, 1989 there ) was an Austrian opera singer ( alto range ), pianist and music teacher . She was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna Volksoper .

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Origin and family

Page from the family chronicle, around 1865

Mia Beyerl's ancestors came from a noble family originally based in France , which can be traced back to the 17th century.

Her parents were Heinrich Beyerl (1868–1958) and Maria Beyerl, née Neuhaus (1871–1969). Heinrich Beyerl was the son of a school teacher in the then to Austria-Hungary belonging village hayd born and learned at different apprenticeships in Graz and Salzburg the merchant profession . Maria Beyerl came from Sollern in Upper Austria near the Bavarian border . Mia Beyerl's parents met in Salzburg in 1898. Both parents were music lovers and performed together at singing games and pieces of music. The marriage took place in early 1900. Shortly after the marriage, the Beyerl couple moved to the then economically up-and-coming city of Linz, where Heinrich Beyerl founded the "Beyerl company" in January 1900 as a gallantry and haberdashery shop , which in the same year expanded to a " trade with goods without restriction" and later as a toy shop, founded.

Mia Beyerl had a younger sister Margarete, called Gretel (1902–1990). Beyerl received singing and piano lessons from early childhood and was trained in a nun-run “ Higher Daughter School ” in Linz. The nuns taught her the language of diplomacy and conversation, and taught her good manners and education. After attending the “Höhere Töchterschule”, she attended a household school in Bavaria for another year .

Education and career

After successfully completing school, she went to Vienna in 1919 to study singing and piano at the State Academy (now the University of Music and Performing Arts ).

Mia Beyerl was a contralto and was already performing under her stage name "Mia Beyerl" in Vienna and Linz at concerts, at Liedertafeln and on Vienna's Volksbühnen during her training . She had one of her first public appearances in August 1920 in the Liedertafelsaal of the Schatz inn in Linz, where she performed “Songs by Strauss and Hilbach ”. She often took on emotional and romantic roles and, due to her stage effect, was also in demand as a lecturer at ceremonial acts and as a reciter . In her early days, Mia Beyerl was supported in particular by the Linz composer, pianist and conductor August Göllerich (1859–1923), who, in his capacity as director of the Linz Musikverein, repeatedly used her as a soloist at the Musikverein concerts. Her professional singing career can be dated from 1922 to 1929. In February 1926 she gave a recital with songs by Franz Schubert in Linz . In the summer of 1928 she passed the two state examinations for singing and piano "with very good success". She then became a member of the ensemble of the Vienna Volksoper. She was also a student in the opera class of the famous Viennese singing teacher Hans Enders and taught solo singing as his assistant.

After suffering from diphtheria in 1929, she had to give up her opera singing career due to the extensive loss of her voice. There were no further artistic offers. She therefore returned to Linz and began working there as a singing teacher in 1932. In addition to taking private lessons for actors from the Linz State Theater , she has also worked as a singing teacher at the Linz City Music School since it was founded in 1951 and regularly organized concerts for her most talented students. She worked as a singing teacher until 1975.

In the 1950s, Mia Beyerl, who remained unmarried, joined the Jehovah's Witnesses . From September 1969, she lived in the mezzanine floor of from the early days originating apartment building in Linz Urfahr . In the winter of 1988/89, her health deteriorated considerably. In the spring of 1989, she had to undergo a hospital stay, during which a tumor in the stomach area was removed. Mia Beyerl died at the age of almost 89 in the presence of her great-niece.

Performances (selection)

• 1924: Te Deum by Anton Bruckner , on the commemoration of Bruckner's 100th birthday, St. Pölten
• 1924: Mother Earth by Hugo Kaun , Linz (Austrian premiere)

literature

• Christa Prameshuber: The master. Memories of the artist Mia Beyerl. Trauner, Linz 2017, ISBN 978-3-99062-204-9 .

Web links

Commons : Mia Beyerl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Mia Beyerl in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anton Bruckner Chronology Database abil.at.
2. ↑ In the family tree, Christa Prameshuber gives the name Neumaier as the name at birth.
3. ^ [1] Linzer Tages-Post , May 5, 1925.
4. ↑ review; Linzer Tages-Post from August 10, 1920.
5. ^ [2] Wienerwald-Bote , March 29, 1924.
6. ^ [3] Linzer Tages-Post , April 9, 1924.