Ludwig Weber

Ludwig Weber ( born July 29, 1899 in Vienna, † December 9, 1974 ) was an Austrian opera singer ( bass).

He studied in his native city at Alfred Borrotau, debuted there in 1920 at the Volksoper. From 1933 he was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, from 1945 until he retired member of the Vienna State Opera.

1951-1962, he appeared at the Bayreuth Festival. He has appeared in all the major opera houses of Europe and at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. From 1961 he taught as a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Ludwig Weber's voice has been hailed as one of the roundest, most warmest, wohltönendsten and powerful bass voices of the 20th century. When his parade games Gurnemanz in Parsifal, Hagen in Götterdämmerung, Fasolt in Das Rheingold, King Marke in Tristan und Isolde (all by Richard Wagner), Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute, the title character in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and the Baron Ochs were to Lerchenau in Richard Strauss ' Rosenkavalier.

From a phonetic point of view and vocal Kurt Moll was sometimes referred to as Weber's successor.

His grave site is located on the Grinzinger cemetery in Vienna (Group 11, Row 5, number 2).

Auswahldiskografie

• The Magic Flute, Herbert von Karajan (1950 )
• Parsifal, Hans Knappertsbusch (1951 )
• Das Rheingold, Keilberth (1951 )
• Tristan and Isolde, Herbert von Karajan (1952 )
• Twilight of the Gods, Hans Knappertsbusch (1951 )
• Parsifal, Clemens Krauss (1953 )
• Der Rosenkavalier, Erich Kleiber (1954 )
• '' Götterdämmerung '', [( Rudolf Moralt )] ( 1949)