Adolf Schulze (13 April 1835 – April 1920) was a German
baritone
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and
music educator
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.
Life
Born in
Panten
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, Schulze initially worked as an elementary school teacher in Hamburg. There, he also received his first
vocal pedagogy
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Vocal pedagogy covers a ...
training from Karl Voigt, which was later deepened in London with the singer and music teacher
Manuel Garcia.
Since 1864, he was active as a concert and oratorio singer, again in Hamburg. In addition, Schulze gave singing lessons there. In the mid-1870s, he was appointed professor and conductor of the singing class at the
Berlin University of the Arts
The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universiti ...
. He was also a member of the senate of the
Prussian Academy of Arts
The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: ''Preußische Akademie der Künste'') was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and late ...
.
Schulze retired in autumn 1910, which he spent in Jena, where he died in April 1920 shortly before reaching the age of 85.
['']Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
'Die'' (; en, " heNew Journal of Music") is a music magazine, co-founded in Leipzig by Robert Schumann, his teacher and future father-in law Friedrich Wieck, and his close friend Ludwig Schuncke. Its first issue appeared on 3 April 1834.
Histo ...
''. 87. Jg. 1920,
Further reading
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Hugo Riemann
Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (18 July 1849 – 10 July 1919) was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology. The leading European music scholar of his time, he was active and influential as both a musi ...
: ''
Riemann Musiklexikon
The Riemann Musiklexikon (RML), is a music encyclopedia founded in 1882 by Hugo Riemann. The 13th edition appeared in 2012.
History
The Riemann Musiklexikon is the last undertaking of an individual to write a comprehensive encyclopedia in the fi ...
.'' 10th edition, edited by
Alfred Einstein
Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880February 13, 1952) was a German-American musicologist and music editor. He was born in Munich and fled Nazi Germany after Hitler's ''Machtergreifung'', arriving in the United States by 1939. He is best known for b ...
; Max Hesse Verlag, Leipzig 1922, .
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Hermann Mendel and August Reissmann (ed.): ''Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon: Eine Encyklopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften.'' Ninth volume, Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1878,
References
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German baritones
German music educators
1835 births
1920 deaths
People from Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein
Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts
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