Aksel Schiøtz

Aksel Schiøtz ( born September 1, 1906 in Roskilde, † April 19, 1975 in Copenhagen) was a Danish singer (tenor, baritone) and a singing teacher.

Schiøtz studied until 1929 Languages ​​at the University of Copenhagen and worked as a teacher. The choir conductor Mogens Wöldeke took him on as a tenor in the Copenhagen Male Choir, where he soon took over solo parts in oratorios. He then took singing lessons at the Royal Opera Copenhagen in Agnete Zacharias and Valdemar Lincke and later in Stockholm with John Forsell.

As a lieder singer debuted Schiøtz 1936 as an opera singer in the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte in 1938 at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. The German occupation of Denmark until 1945, prevented an international career, but was Schiøtz in Dänrmark a popular opera, operetta and lieder singer. In 1946 he traveled to England, where he The Beautiful Miller and Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe recorded with pianist Gerald Moore Franz Schubert and Kathleen Ferrier appeared in the premiere of Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.

In the same year an acoustic neuroma was found in Schiøtz. After the operation succeeded him in 1948 a comeback as a singer. Even after a brain tumor, which was established in 1950 and temporarily affected his ability to speak, he managed to return as a singer. From 1955 he devoted himself to singing lessons. He worked until 1958 at the University of Minnesota, to 1961 at the University of Toronto until 1968 at the University of Colorado and finally in Copenhagen as Professor of Voice.

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• Bach Cantatas - Aksel Schiøtz
• Aksel Schiøtz at the Internet Movie Database (English)

• Tenor
• Baritone
• Opera singer
• Singing teacher
• Dane
• Born in 1906
• Died in 1975
• Man