Ernst Heinrich Anton Pasqué (3 September 1821 – 20 March 1892) was a German operatic

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, writer and

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Life

Born in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

, at the age of 17 Pasqué decided to have his voice trained. At the instigation of

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (; 29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire. Born into an artistic family, Auber was at first an amateur composer before he took up writing operas professionally when ...

, he was accepted at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

. There he was a pupil of the tenor

Antoine Ponchard Louis Antoine Ponchard (31 August 1787 – 6 June 1866) was a 19th-century French operatic tenor and teacher. He made his debut in 1812 in ''L'Ami de la maison'', opera by Grétry. In 1825, he sang the leading role − George Brown − at th ...

. On 4 May 1844 he made his debut as a "hunter" in the "night camp" in Mainz. He came in 1845 as

to the

Staatstheater Darmstadt The Staatstheater Darmstadt (Darmstadt State Theatre) is a theatre company and building in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, presenting opera, ballet, plays and concerts. It is funded by the state of Hesse and the city of Darmstadt. Its history began in ...

. From 1846 to 1847 he was active in Leipzig, but then went back to Darmstadt. In the summer of 1855 he was director of the Deutsche Oper in Amsterdam, and from 1856 to 1859

in Weimar. After illness and the loss of his voice he became an economic inspector in Darmstadt in 1859. Besides music-related literature, his main work "Geschichte der Musik und des Theater am Hofe zu Darmstadt", he also wrote stories and the

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Johann Joseph Abert Johann Joseph Abert (20 September 1832 – 1 April 1915 in Stuttgart) was a German composer. An ethnic German from the Sudetenland, he is also known in Czech as Jan Josef Abert. Life and career Abert was born in Kochowitz near Gastorf, Bohemia, ...

's opera ''Astorga''. Pasqué died in

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at the age of 70.

Work

Fiction * ''Der Karlsberg. Kulturgeschichtlicher Roman''. Verlag Ries, Homburg 1902 * ''Eine Visitenkarte Bismarcks. Erzählungen''. Hillger Verlag, Leipzig 1899. * ''In Paris. Heitere Geschichten aus den Lehrjahren eines Sängers''. B. Behr Buchhandlung, Berlin 1872. * ''Aus der Welt der Töne''. Erlebnisse eines Mädchen-Quartetts im Haidehause. Onkel Reinholds Erzählungen a.d. Bereich der Oper, des Volksliedes, des Künstlerthums und des Tanzes. 70 Text-Illustrationen und vier Tonbilder. Leipzig, Verlag Otto Spamer, 1878. non-fiction book * ''Goethe’s Theaterleitung in Weimar''. Leipzig 1863. , * ''Geschichte der Musik und des Theaters am Hofe zu Darmstadt. Mit Berücksichtigung der diesbezüglichen Hoffeste, der Biografien betheiligter Künstler und im Zusammenhange mit der allgemeinen deutschen Musik- und Theatergeschichte''. Wittich, Darmstadt 1853.

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