Johan Messchaert (22 August 18579 September 1922) was a Dutch baritone singer and vocal pedagogue. Messchaert was born as Johannes Martinus Messchaert in

Hoorn Hoorn () is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the largest town and the traditional capital of the region of West Friesland. Hoorn is located on the Markermeer, 20 kilometers ( ...

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. He was known for his rendering of the role of Christ in Bach's

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, and he sang the bass role at the 18 May 1902 Düsseldorf performance of

Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

's ''

The Dream of Gerontius ''The Dream of Gerontius'', Op. 38, is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the poem by John Henry Newman. It relates the journey of a pious man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment b ...

'' under the direction of Julius Buths and alongside Muriel Foster. He later founded his own conservatoire in Amsterdam. He died in Küsnacht,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

in 1922, aged 65.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Messchaert, Johan 1857 births 1922 deaths Dutch operatic baritones Dutch music educators Voice teachers People from Hoorn 19th-century Dutch male singers 19th-century Dutch opera singers