Georg Maikl and Liselotte Maikl grave, Vienna, 2018

Georg Maikl (4 April 1872 – 22 August 1951) was an Austrian operatic

tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

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Born in

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near

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, Maikl came from a family of singers and studied singing in Stuttgart with the tenor Anton Hromada.

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, Monika Kornberge
Maikl, Familie
on ''

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'' Online-Edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Printed edition: Volume 3, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, . After he was discovered by Pollini in 1899, a ten-year engagement at the Hamburg Opera failed because he died shortly afterwards. Instead, Maikl sang at the Mannheim Hofbühne in the same year, where he made his debut in the role of Tamino.

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brought Maikl in 1904 to the

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, where he worked for the rest of his life and impersonated 99 roles until 1942. From 1906 to 1910, he worked for the Salzburg Mozart festivals and from 1920 for the

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Kammersänger Kammersänger (male) or Kammersängerin (female), abbreviated Ks. or KS, is a German honorific title for distinguished singers of opera and classical music. It literally means "chamber singer". Historically, the title was bestowed by princes or ...

Maikl died in Vienna aged 79 and was buried in a grave of honour in the

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(group 33A/5/17). In 1959, the ''Maiklgasse'' in Vienna-

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was named after him. His daughter was the

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Liselotte Maikl Liselotte Maikl (6 March 1925 – 10 December 2014)La Bohème ''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions ''quadri'', ''tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe G ...

'' and ''

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'', Don Octavio, Belmonte or Faust. In total, he mastered 99 roles and appeared 3062 times on the Vienna stage. Therefore

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...

described him as the most dutiful member of the company.

Awards

* Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich (1929)''Lokales. Kammersänger Georg Maikl.'' Badener Zeitung, 30 November 1929, , o
ANNO, Badener Zeitung
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* * ''Lokales. Jubiläumsfeier Georg Maikls.'
Badener Zeitung, 28. Dezember 1929, S. 4, Mitte rechts
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maikl, Georg Austrian operatic tenors Österreichischer Kammersänger 1872 births 1951 deaths People from Schwaz District

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