Fritz Windgassen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Fritz Windgassen

German operatic tenor

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1883

Place of Birth: Lennep, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1963

Profession: singer, opera singer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Fritz Windgassen

  • Fritz Windgassen (9 February 1883 – 17 April 1963) was a German Heldentenor and teacher. Windgassen was born in Lennep (now part of Remscheid) in the Prussian Rhine Province.
  • Following the wishes of his upstanding middle-class parents, he took up a respectable career in the German navy.
  • Only after Prince Heinrich of Prussia praised his singing ability did he dare embark on a singing career.
  • After training in the Bernuth Conservatoire in Hamburg, he made his début in 1909 in Harburg.
  • Further engagements took him to Bremen, Hamburg, and the Court Theatre in Kassel, where he met the coloratura soprano Vali von der Osten, whom he married in 1916.
  • From 1923 to 1945, he was a member of the Stuttgart National Opera.
  • Beginning in 1919 he increasingly specialised in Heldentenor roles and became a renowned interpreter of Richard Wagner. He was also much in demand as a concert and Lieder performer.
  • He gave his farewell concert in Stuttgart in 1949, featuring works by Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Hugo Wolf among others; his son, Wolfgang Windgassen, later a celebrated Heldentenor in his own right, also took part. After his retirement from the stage, Windgassen taught at the Stuttgart College of Music.
  • Among his pupils was the bass Gottlob Frick.
  • Windgassen died in Murnau.

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