Ernst Heinrich Anton Pasqué (3 September 1821 – 20 March 1892) was a German operatic
baritone
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,
opera director
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,
theatre director
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, writer and
librettist
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.
Life
Born in
Cologne
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, at the age of 17 Pasqué decided to have his voice trained. At the instigation of
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (; 29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.
Born into an artistic family, Auber was at first an amateur composer before he took up writing operas professionally whe ...
, he was accepted at the
Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...
. There he was a pupil of the tenor
Antoine Ponchard
Louis Antoine Ponchard (31 August 1787 – 6 June 1866) was a 19th-century French operatic tenor and teacher.
He made his debut in 1812 in ''L'Ami de la maison'', opera by Grétry. In 1825, he sang the leading role − George Brown − at the ...
.
On 4 May 1844 he made his debut as a "hunter" in the "night camp" in Mainz.
He came in 1845 as
baritone
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to the
Staatstheater Darmstadt
The Staatstheater Darmstadt (Darmstadt State Theatre) is a theatre company and building in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, presenting opera, ballet, plays and concerts. It is funded by the German states, state of Hesse and the city of Darmstadt. Its hi ...
. From 1846 to 1847 he was active in Leipzig, but then went back to Darmstadt.
In the summer of 1855 he was director of the Deutsche Oper in Amsterdam, and from 1856 to 1859
opera director
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in Weimar.
After illness and the loss of his voice he became an economic inspector in Darmstadt in 1859. Besides music-related literature, his main work "Geschichte der Musik und des Theater am Hofe zu Darmstadt", he also wrote stories and the
libretto
A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to th ...
to
Johann Joseph Abert
Johann Joseph Abert (20 September 1832 – 1 April 1915 in Stuttgart) was a German composer. An ethnic German from the Sudetenland, he is also known in Czech as Jan Josef Abert.
Life and career
Abert was born in Kochowitz near Gastorf, Bohemia, ...
's opera ''Astorga''.
Pasqué died in
Alsbach-Hähnlein
Alsbach-Hähnlein is a municipality in southern Hesse (Germany) in the district Darmstadt-Dieburg. It resulted from a merger of the two separate municipalities (''Gemeinden'') Alsbach and Hähnlein.
Sister city
* Diósd, Hungary
Hungar ...
at the age of 70.
Work
Fiction
* ''Der Karlsberg. Kulturgeschichtlicher Roman''. Verlag Ries, Homburg 1902
* ''Eine Visitenkarte
Bismarcks. Erzählungen''. Hillger Verlag, Leipzig 1899.
* ''In Paris. Heitere Geschichten aus den Lehrjahren eines Sängers''. B. Behr Buchhandlung, Berlin 1872.
* ''Aus der Welt der Töne''. Erlebnisse eines Mädchen-Quartetts im Haidehause. Onkel Reinholds Erzählungen a.d. Bereich der Oper, des Volksliedes, des Künstlerthums und des Tanzes. 70 Text-Illustrationen und vier Tonbilder. Leipzig, Verlag Otto Spamer, 1878.
non-fiction book
* ''Goethe’s Theaterleitung in Weimar''. Leipzig 1863. ,
* ''Geschichte der Musik und des Theaters am Hofe zu Darmstadt. Mit Berücksichtigung der diesbezüglichen Hoffeste, der Biografien betheiligter Künstler und im Zusammenhange mit der allgemeinen deutschen Musik- und Theatergeschichte''. Wittich, Darmstadt 1853.
Further reading
"Ernst Pasqué" Ludwig Eisenberg, in Großes biographisches Lexikon der deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert.
Paul List, Leipzig 1903,
* Norbert Bartnik: ''Ernst Pasqué. Der Träumer von „Haus Geyersberg“. Zur Erinnerung an den vor hundert Jahren gestorbenen Sänger, Schriftsteller und Heimatforscher''. Selbstverlag, Alsbach-Hähnlein 1992.
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External links
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Pasqué, Ernston BMLO
on WeGA
Pasqué Ernston OPERISSIMO
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German opera directors
German theatre directors
German librettists
German operatic baritones
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
1821 births
1892 deaths
Musicians from Cologne
19th-century German male opera singers