Rudolf Moest (22 April 1872 – 28 April 1919) was a German operatic
bass
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and
baritone
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.
Life
Moest was born in
Karlsruhe the son of the sculptor
Karl Friedrich Moest
Karl Friedrich Moest (also Carl Friedrich Moest: 26 March 1838 - 14 August 1923) was a German sculptor.
Life
Moest was born in Gernsbach, a short distance to the east of Baden-Baden. He learned drawing skills, etching on copper and steel, ho ...
. Already at an early age, people became aware of his voice, and it was first Carl Speigler and later Fritz Plank who put him on stage. He took lessons from Carl Hermann and
Franz Krückl and started his stage career in 1882 in Strasbourg, where he made his debut as "Ruggiero" in ''
La Juive
''La Juive'' () (''The Jewess'') is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy to an original French libretto by Eugène Scribe; it was first performed at the Opéra, Paris, on 23 February 1835.
Composition history
''La Juive'' was one of t ...
'' and stayed there four years. In 1896, he joined the association of the court theatre in Hanover, of which he was a member until 1914.
In 1900, he made a guest appearance at the
Oper Frankfurt in June and at the Hoftheater in Vienna in November. In 1909, he was König Heinrich in ''
Lohengrin'' and Titurel in ''
Parsifal'' at the
Bayreuth Festival
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. In 1914, he went to the court opera in Vienna, where he had great success as "Hans Sachs" in ''
Die Meistersinger''. Guest performances brought him to the court theatre in Karlsruhe (1902), to the
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (1903-1910), to Cologne (1905-1908), then to Dresden (1906), Munich and Stuttgart, to the German theatre in Prague (1907, 1909) and Weimar.
Moest died at the age of 47. On the day of his death, he was still singing in
Vienna.
His voice has been preserved on
Parlophone,
Odeon
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and
Pathé
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records.
Moest Rudolf
on Operissimo
Moest's brothers were the sculptor and the actor .
Further reading
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He was born in Odessa, Ukr ...
publisher, Leipzig 1903, , ().
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German operatic baritones
German basses
1872 births
1919 deaths
Musicians from Karlsruhe