Frederick Charles Reinhold (11 February 1741 – 29 September 1815) was a British singer and organist.Aspden, S. (2010, May 27). Reinhold, Frederick Charles (1741–1815), singer and organist. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 27 Aug. 2020, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-23354 (subscription or UK public library membership required) He was born in London, son of

Henry Reinhold Henry Reinhold (c. 1690 – 1751), also known as Thomas Reinhold, was a German opera singer. He was born in Dresden and showed an early aptitude for music, which his family apparently discouraged. But he secretly left Dresden to follow Handel, ...

, a well-known singer, and his wife Sarah. According to the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (1885–1900), the son was also known as Charles Frederick Reinhold. Reinhold was a boy chorister at

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. His father died in 1751 and according to the ''DNB'', he "was brought up by the

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". He created the role of

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in Christopher Smith's opera 'The Fairies' in 1755. His voice appears to have broken in the late 1750s. He sang bass from 1758, beginning a long career as singer at

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. Pergolesi's ''

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'' was successfully performed there, Reinhold taking the role of Uberto. He also sang at many of the Lent oratorios in 1784 and subsequent years, and in 1784 he was one of the principal basses at the

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commemoration in

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. In the previous year he had been appointed organist of St. George-the-Martyr. He retired from public life in 1797, and died in Somers Town on 29 Sept. 1815. He is described as an admirable singer, but a parsimonious man.

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* . *''Reinhold, Frederick Charles'' by Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson, in 'The

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', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ;Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Reinhold, Frederick Charles 1741 births 1815 deaths 18th-century British male opera singers Operatic basses British male organists British people of German descent Members of the Royal Society of Musicians