Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz

Heinrich Conrad Schleinitz ( born October 1, 1805 in Zschaitz in chub, † May 13 1881 in Leipzig ) was a German jurist and tenor.

Life

Schleinitz was born in 1802 the son of a school headmaster in Zschaitz. He was a student at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. After graduation he studied law at the University of Leipzig. He received his doctorate to Dr. iur. and worked as a lawyer in Leipzig. Later he received a musical education. He joined in 1830 as a tenor at a festival in Halle and in 1848 sang Mendelssohn's Elijah in Leipzig. After you ordered him to the Board of the Leipzig Gewandhaus, he sat down in 1835 for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Office of the Gewandhaus one. Between the two formed a lifelong friendship was born. Thus, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Night Song was dedicated to him. After Mendelssohn's death in 1847, he became director of the Leipzig Conservatory. Schleinitz died in 1881, in almost complete blindness, in Leipzig.