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Born: July 3, 1920 - Austria?
Died: March 3, 2011 - Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. |
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The Austrian (?) bass, August Messthaler [Meßthaler], studied first music education in Vienna and Munich. However, he trained his voice, while he worked at the same time still as a teacher. His studies took place with the great singing teachers Franziska Martienssen Lohemann and Paul Lohmann.
In 1949 August Messthaler began a glossful concert career, which brought him great successes with concert tours in the European music centers as in North America. In 1950 he won an international singing competition in Frankfurt a.M. In the areas of oratorio and Lieder he proved himself as one the prominent German bass singers of his generation, gladly stepped himself before his public also in works of contemporary composers.
Since 1966 August Messthaler worked as a lecturer, and since 1979 as a professor at the College of Music of Stuttgart.
August Messthaler became known also by radio broadcasts and by recordings. The latters appeared on DGG, Decca, Philips, Vox, Corona, De Camera and Wergo. Further recordings on Telefunken (Lieder), Camerata (J.S. Bach Cantatas, works of Heinrich Schütz) and in the Christophorus-Verlag (Masses by W.A. Mozart and Schubert). |
