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
oratorio
An oratorio () is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is mus ...
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.
References
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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