Traian Grozăvescu

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Traian Grozăvescu
Memorial plaque for Traian-Nicolae Grozăvescu in Lerchenfelder Strasse in Vienna

Traian Grozăvescu (born November 21, 1895 in Lugoj , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † February 15, 1927 in Vienna , Austria ) was a Romanian opera singer (tenor).

Life

Traian Grozăvescu was the son of a Romanian and a Serbian.

In Lugoj he first attended elementary school and the lyceum. Because of his singing talent, recognized at an early stage, he was accepted into the choir of the composer Ion Vidu .

In Budapest , he studied from 1914 Jus and attended the same music academy . He did his military service during the First World War as an artillery officer in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front. During this time he is said to have sung the Ave Maria von Bach-Gounod for his comrades during a break in the fight and even received applause from the Italian soldiers for it.

After the end of the war he was able to complete his studies (whether in Budapest or in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca is not clear). In 1919 he began his tenor career at the Cluj-Napoca Opera, directed by Tiberiu Brediceanu . In 1923 he continued his vocal studies with Franz Steiner in Vienna. During this time he first became a soloist at the Vienna Volksoper and later at the Vienna State Opera .

He also had successful appearances at the operas of Budapest , Berlin , Prague, Brno, Salzburg and Oslo and was appreciated by Richard Strauss , Arturo Toscanini , Pietro Mascagni and Franz Schalk . In 1926 he received a guest performance contract in Berlin.

On February 15, 1927, he was shot by his wife Nelly in his apartment on Lerchenfelder Strasse in Vienna's Neubau district . The statements of witnesses and experts about the private life of the married couple were spread by the press, as was the fact that the evening before his murder in Rigoletto he had sung “Oh, how deceitful are women's hearts”. Nelly Grozăvescu was defended by the star lawyer Heinrich Steger . Grozăvescu, who had recently suffered a miscarriage , was admitted to confusion by the jury and acquitted on June 25, 1927.

Traian Grozăvescu was transferred to Lugoj and buried there.

literature

  • Traian Grosavescu † . In: Die Stimmbildung - vocal science sheets for culture and criticism of art song , edited by Otto Iro, 4th year, 1927, number 5/8, p. 50, about the voice of Grosavescu
  • Grozavescu, Traian . In: Large song dictionary . 2000, p. 9595

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b rumaenischespuren.at ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rumaenischespuren.at
  2. ↑ a b c adz.ro
  3. ↑ a b c oe1.orf.at
  4. ↑ Heinrich Steger: Defense speech in the trial against Ms. Nelly Grosavescu for the crime of spousal murder: available on June 25th, 1927 before the Viennese jury court . Vienna: Perles, 1927
  5. ↑ diekriminalisten.at
personal data
SURNAME Grozăvescu, Traian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugoj , Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1927
Place of death Vienna , Austria