Ludwig Strakosch (1 November 1855 – 14 October 1919) was an Austrian operatic
baritone.
Life
Born in
Brünn
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, Strakosch, son of a sugar manufacturer, first took singing lessons with Therese Stolz in Berlin and Louise Reß in Vienna. He then made his debut in Linz as
Tell. He then sang in Strasbourg, where he performed the "Trumpeter" for the very first time under
Victor Ernst Nessler. After that, he sang in Königsberg, the German Opera in Holland, Breslau (1891), Hamburg (1892) and Cologne (1894). After that he did not accept any further permanent engagements, but worked as a guest performer until he left the stage in 1897. After that he moved to Wiesbaden where he taught singing. From 1910 he worked in Hamburg at the singing school he opened together with his wife Irma Strakosch (1860-1931).
His repertoire included "Don Juan", the "Dutchman", the "Count" in ''Figaro'', "Wolfram", "Tell", "Healing", "Rigoletto", "Pizarro", etc. His appearances in Bucharest with
Gemma Bellincioni in ''
Carmen'', ''
Faust
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The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroa ...
'' and ''
La traviata'' were also particularly noteworthy.
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, Leipzig 1903, , ()
Strakosch also worked as a concert singer and was praised as
Eugen Gura
Eugen Gura (8 November 184226 August 1906) was a German operatic baritone.
Life
Gura was born in Nové Sedlo, Louny District, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic).
He was at first educated for the career of a painter at Vienna and Munich; ...
's successor, especially with ballads written by
Carl Loewe
Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe (; 30 November 1796 – 20 April 1869), usually called Carl Loewe (sometimes seen as Karl Loewe), was a German composer, tenor singer and conductor. In his lifetime, his songs ("Balladen") were well enough known for s ...
.
Strakosch died in Hamburg at the age of 63.
Students
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Delia Reinhardt
References
External links
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Ludwig StrakoschPicture in the of the
Goethe University Frankfurt
Austrian operatic baritones
Voice teachers
1855 births
1919 deaths
Musicians from Brno
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