Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz (born 1805 in Zechanitz for chub; died 1881 in Leipzig) was a German jurist and tenor .
Schleinitz was born in 1805, the son of a school headmaster in
Zechanitz. He was a pupil at the Thomas School in Leipzig . After graduation, he studied law at the University of Leipzig . He received a doctorate in the Dr. iur. and worked as a lawyer in Leipzig. Later he received a musical education. He entered 1830 as a tenor at a festival in Halle in 1848 and sang Mendelssohn's Elijah in Leipzig. After him to the Board of the Leipzig
Gewandhaus
Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics.
History
The first Gewandhaus (''Altes Gewandhaus'')
The fi ...
ordered, he set in 1835 for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Office of the Gewandhaus one. Between the two was a lifelong friendship. So he was A Midsummer Night's Dream and night song dedicated. After Mendelssohn's death in 1847, he became director of the
Leipzig Conservatory
The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (german: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig) is a public university in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany). Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn ...
. Schleinitz died in 1881, in almost complete blindness, in Leipzig.
Sources
Biographie von Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz
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1805 births
Jurists from Saxony
German tenors
1881 deaths
19th-century German male opera singers