Gustav Scharfe (11 September 1835 – 25 June 1892) was a German operatic

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Life

Born in

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, Saxony, Scharfe was originally an assistant teacher (1854) at the and in 1856 at the Leipzig Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. However, because of his outstanding musical and vocal talents, he took on a successful engagement as an opera singer at the Dresden Court Opera for several years. He later went to England and trained there for the higher demands of singing. Returning to Dresden, he devoted himself very successfully to teaching singing, most recently at the

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, Dresden (along, among others,

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). He was awarded the title ''Professor of Music'' by the

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for his services as a teacher in 1880. Scharfe published an excellent singing school: (The Methodical Development of the Voice). Scharfe died in Dresden, aged 56.

Students

* Hans Buff-Giessen,

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Emil Goetze Emil Karl Goetze, also Emil Götze (19 July 1856 – 28 September 1901), was a German operatic tenor. Life Born in Leipzig, Göetze, student of the Dresden conservatory with Gustav Scharfe, where he first appeared on stage in October 1878, wa ...

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Gustav Scharfe
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scharfe, Gustav German operatic baritones 1835 births 1892 deaths People from Grimma 19th-century German male opera singers