Otto Brucks

Otto Brucks ( November 28, 1858 in Brandenburg - January 15, 1914 in Metz ) was a German tuba player , opera singer ( baritone ), composer and artistic director .

Life

Brucks received his musical training at the Royal University of Music in Berlin, where he mainly dealt with instrumental music. He did not take his first engagement as a singer, but appeared in the orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival in 1875 and 1876 as a contra-bass wind player, then worked for two years at the Hofopertheater in Vienna, from where he was appointed royal chamber musician in Berlin. But his musical knowledge was not only recognized in Germany, it also earned him loud applause on concert tours in Russia. After earning his laurels mostly in the orchestra room for eight years, he also picked them on the stage podium after training his beautiful baritone voice with Franz Betz and Hofkapellmeister Heinrich Kahl , first making his debut at the Dresden Court Opera in 1883. Then he came to the Hamburg City Theater, from there to Düsseldorf, then in first position at the Prague State Theater until he joined the Association of the Munich Court Opera on August 1, 1890. In 1894 he became a royal. appointed Bavarian chamber singer. He was not only considered a worthy member of this elite opera ensemble, but also an excellent actor.

In Rottach-Egern he met Marie Louise von Larisch-Wallersee , whom he married in 1897. Their son Otto (junior) was born in 1899. Out of solidarity with the Austrian imperial family, Brucks was no longer employed on the royal Bavarian stages and court operas after his marriage, as his wife was involved in the scandal surrounding the suicide of Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and fell out of favor. In 1898 he therefore left the association of this music institute and no longer accepted a permanent commitment. With every criticism, background reports about his marriage to "that Countess Larisch who in Mayerling ..." were more important than his musical performance. He retired to Rottach that year and started drinking. However, this did not prevent him from continuing the guest performance he had begun in Leipzig in 1884 until 1906 in Metz. Piquant including above all the appearance of 1898, shortly after the beginning of his took effect in Bavaria professional "ostracism", where he attended the Vienna Court Opera, "despite Mayerling" Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger and hikers in Siegfried by Richard Wagner sang.

In 1906 Otto Brucks became theater director in Metz , where he died in 1914.

The artist also tried his hand at composing and wrote an opera and an overture as well as some songs.

Works

• Duke Reginald , opera
• Ingo , overture

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Otto Brucks . In: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. Paul List, Leipzig 1903, p. 131 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).

Web links

• Otto Brucks in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Otto Brucks' appearances at the Vienna State Opera

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kutsch, Riemens: Large singing dictionary . 3. Edition. tape 1 . Saur, Bern / Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-598-11419-9 , pp. 472 .

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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