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Sebastian Meyer
(Friedrich) Sebastian Mayer (actually Meier, 1773 – 9 May 1835) was a bass (voice), bass singer and stage director of the Classical period (music), Classical era. Life Mayer was born at Benediktbeuern. In 1793, he joined the theater company of Emanuel Schikaneder. On 23 December 1797, he became the second husband of Josepha Weber, Josepha (Weber) Hofer, the sister of Constanze Mozart. Constanze was the widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart, who had died in 1791. Mayer's best man at this wedding was Emanuel Schikaneder. In 1805, he participated in the premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera Fidelio, taking the part of Pizarro. The role apparently gave him difficulty, as the following quotation from Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Thayer's biography of Beethoven (p. 326) indicates: :''the voice moves over a series of scales, played by all the strings, so that the singer at each note which he has to utter, hears an appoggiatura of a minor second from the orchestra. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass (voice)
A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', a bass is typically classified as having a vocal range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C (i.e., E2–E4).; ''The Oxford Dictionary of Music'' gives E2–E4/F4 Its tessitura, or comfortable range, is normally defined by the outermost lines of the bass clef. Categories of bass voices vary according to national style and classification system. Italians favour subdividing basses into the ''basso cantante'' (singing bass), ''basso buffo'' ("funny" bass), or the dramatic ''basso profondo'' (low bass). The American system identifies the bass-baritone, comic bass, lyric bass, and dramatic bass. The German ''Fach'' system offers further distinctions: Spielbass (Bassbuffo), Schwerer Spielbass (Schwerer Bassbuffo), Charakterbass (Bassbariton), and Seriöser Bass. These classification systems can ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
