Hermann Weißenborn (10 September 1876 – 20 November 1959) was a German operatic baritone and voice teacher. Born in Berlin, Weißenborn was trained musically mostly by

Raimund von Zur Mühlen ''Raimund'' is thought to be a variant of the name Raymond. Raimund may refer to: * Ferdinand Raimund (1790-1836), Austrian actor and dramatist * Raimund Theater, a theatre in the Mariahilf district of Vienna, Austria People with the given name R ...

. He began a career as a concert and

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singer. He turned early to music education. He became one of the most sought-after singing teachers of his generation in Germany. From 1920 he taught at the

Musikhochschule Berlin The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universit ...

. Since 1922 he was head of the singing department of this university. Among his many well-known students were

Joseph Schmidt Joseph Schmidt (4 March 1904 – 16 November 1942) was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian Jewish tenor and actor. Life and career Schmidt was born in Davideny (Ukrainian: ''Davydivka'') village in the Storozhynets district of the Bukovina pr ...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, ...

, Elisabeth Höngen,

Marga Höffgen Marga Anna Johanna Höffgen (26 April 1921 – 7 July 1995) was a German contralto, known for singing oratorios, especially the Passions by Johann Sebastian Bach, and operatic parts such as Erda in Wagner's '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'', perform ...

, Hildegard Rütgers and Petre Munteanu. Weißenborn died in Berlin at age 83.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weißenborn, Hermann 1876 births 1959 deaths Singers from Berlin German operatic baritones 20th-century German male opera singers Voice teachers Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts