Wilhelm Cronberger
Wilhelm Cronberger ( January 29, 1858 in Frankfurt am Main - July 6, 1926 in Hamburg ) was a German opera singer (tenor).
Life
Cronberger, the son of a nursery owner, was first managing director in the firm of the court photographer Risse in Marburg ad Lahn . During singing lectures in private circles, his voice was pleasantly noticed, so that he went to Leipzig and had himself examined by Kapellmeister Arthur Nikisch and the theater director Max Staegemann . Staegemann also took on his training and promised him an immediate ten-year engagement at the Leipzig Opera House. After a year he suddenly lost his voice completely, which then had to be laboriously rebuilt by August Iffert in Dresden.
In 1886 he made his debut at the City Theater of Königsberg (East Prussia) as "Don Gasparo" in La favorite by Gaetano Donizetti . In 1888 he moved to the City Theater of Bremen, from 1889 to 1892 he was at the City Theater of Hamburg. There he took part in the German premieres of the operas La Basoche by André Messager (1891) and Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1892, as "Lenski").
In 1892 he moved to the Braunschweig court theater. He ended there in 1912 as "Pedro" in the lowlands of Eugen d'Albert .
Guest performances have often taken him from 1887 to the Berlin Kroll Opera, 1890 to the Hoftheater Schwerin, 1898 to the Stadttheater Bremen, 1899 and 1909 to the Hofoper Berlin, since 1899 often to the Berlin Theater des Westens, 1901 to the Hoftheater Hannover and 1904 to the Leipzig Opera House .
In 1900 he was named Princely Lippe Chamber Singer and for his appearance at the Wiesbaden Festival in 1900 he was particularly honored by the German Kaiser.
Appearances as a concert and oratorio soloist were just as successful. Since 1913 he worked in Hamburg as a singing teacher. In 1916 he was a guest at the Braunschweig Court Theater.
Roles (selection)
- Arnoldo in Wilhelm Tell by Rossini
- Chapelou in The Postillon of Lonjumeau by Adam
- Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor by Nicolai
- Gomez in the night camp of Granada by Kreutzer
- Manrico in the Verdi troubadour
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 168 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? ´, published by HA Ludwig Degener, Leipzig, 1909, p. 16
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4, p. 953
Web links
- Wilhelm Cronberger at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cronberger, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1926 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |