Wilhelm Guttmann

Wilhelm Guttmann (born January 1, 1886 in Berlin , † April 24, 1941 in Berlin) was a German opera singer (bass-baritone) and composer .

Life

After graduating from Joachimsthal Gymnasium , he studied from 1903 at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin (with Max Bruch and Paul Juon ), later he was a singing student with Charles W. Graeff. In 1906 he attended Engelbert Humperdinck's master class as a student . In 1912 he made his debut as a concert singer in Berlin, but also performed in Hamburg and Cologne. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. He then switched to opera as a baritone (under the pseudonym Hans Roland). From 1920 to 1926 he took part in the Handel Festival in Göttingen (including as Garibald in the Rodelinda opera). From 1922 he was engaged as an opera singer at the Great Volksoper in Berlin, from 1925 at the Städtische Oper in Berlin. He also gave guest appearances in Zagreb, Belgrade and Hamburg. In addition, from 1926 he taught at the Academy for Church Music in Berlin. In 1934 he was dismissed from engagement for racist reasons. In the following years he took part in operas and concerts of the Jewish Cultural Association in Berlin. He died on the Kulturbund stage during a recital after being interrogated for hours by the Gestapo .

Since 1919 he was married to Eva Troplowitz. He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf . His voice can be heard in the 1928 recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, conducted by Oskar Fried .

Compositions

• 1905: Violin Concerto (string quartet)
• 1905: Marie Duchatel (choral ballad)
• 1914: The dream princess (opera)

Documents

• Correspondence with the music publisher CFPeters Leipzig in the Saxon State Archives in Leipzig.

literature

• Paul Frank: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon . 12th edition. Leipzig 1926, p. 498.
• Martin Goldsmith: The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany . New York 200, p. 264.
• Erich H. Müller: German music dictionary . Dresden 1929, p. 538.
• Theo Stengel: Lexicon of Jews in Music . Berlin 1940, p. 485.
• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 4th edition, Vol. 3. Munich 2004.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Vol. 4. Munich 2006, p. 288.
• Ludwig van Beethoven, 9th Symphony. Oskar Fried, you. Reprint 2011, Pristine PASC 317.

Web links

• Wilhelm Guttmann at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon