Hans Duhan

• Hans Duhan was born at Vienna.

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• Hans Duhan died at Vienna.

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• Vienna.

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1. 1.ANNO wtz 27 04 1914 1 AÏDA.
2. 2.In May, the baritone joined the Court Opera Association.
3. 3.Since the performances of the Vienna State Opera have only been fully recorded in the archives since 1955, it is quite possible that the number of roles and performances sung by Duhan could still increase. This also applies to his conducting.
4. 4.until 1955, Duhan worked as a teacher for opera drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna The changes in the teaching staff and in the structure of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts have, as reported, resulted in the termination of contracts with a number of outstanding teachers. At the same time as the measures were being taken to dismantle the school, negotiations were underway with numerous artists, including the Kammersängerinnen Wildbrunn and Kiurina, to win them over to lead the newly designed master classes. These negotiations have already led to a conclusion with some artists, such as Paul Hartmann, Lothar Wallerstein and Hans Duhan.
5. 5.Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung.
6. 6.ANNO nfp 03 06 1923 13 Volksoper. "Mozart", Singspiel von Julius Wilhelm und Paul Frank, Musik von Hans Duhan. Erstaufführung zugunsten der "Concordia".
7. 7.The Dreimäderlhaus has moved to Salzburg and has become mossy. A singspiel doesn't need to be a biography, and whether a few incidents are postponed or swapped will only bother one professor of music history, not the audience. If only the human is true and unchanging. In the book by Wilhelm and Frank alone, a jovial, flat-headed fellow hangs around under the name Mozart, who with the "enormously benaste" original has only a few similarities with the profile of Duhan, his performer. We do not make a being out of the fact that this Mozart is seduced by the sight of the Salzburg landscape, which is seductive, into a kind of tourist guide waltz: "Salzburg, Salzburg, you are the jewel, the pearl of Austria". More troubling to us is that Mozart only marries Stanzi in Prague after the performance of "Don Juan" and cheats on her with her sister Aloysia on her wedding day. And most of all, that there in Prague the mysterious messenger of Count Walsegg appears, orders the Requiem and, as Mozart declares that he is not in the mood, puts him in the mood with a hundred ducats. For money, Mozart wrote pieces for music boxes and organ rolls, not his own death music. Mozart, who, as is well known, attached particular importance to "action" in a textbook, that is the plot, will see his error afterwards, because Wilhelms and Frank's book is one almost without "action". Little happens, the idle are standing around on stage, and yet the audience likes it. This is the effect of Wolfgang Amadé's folk-like figure, who himself seems to be distorted, who has stepped down in life, unknown, where he was buried and, after his death, transfigured [sic] or exploited. Duhan composed this book, and it is probably the first time that a singer has written an operetta to sing the leading role. A sensational scent from which the older bland Mozartsingspiele (by Lortzing, by Riotte) were free. Duhan spreads out a pretty salon music, amused melodies that oscillate between Toselli and Richard Strauss, between Reißiger and Eisler, a rhythm of sure victory favor, an instrumentation that is in love with the celesta to the ears. He is a good, a very talented musician, rarely uses Mozart (das Veilchen, the Requiem), denies everything of his own, and everything would be fine if it weren't Wolfgang Amadé Mozart who has to sing Duhan... The audience, however, likes it – but it is nicer the other way round: when Duhan Mozart sings ... However, the audience knew no reservations and prepared the "Mozart" for the great stormy recording. It said, "Mozart," and it meant Duhan. First and foremost, the success is probably also a personality success of the singer and composer, and without him the piece seems unthinkable. Charming in the first, moving in the last, in the act of death. Mr. Duhan has every reason to be stifled with the performer of the main character, probably he is also stifled with the conducting Kapellmeister Leo Krauß and the other performers, as one could read from his radiant face. Very kind are Mrs. Wagschal as Aloysia and Mrs. Friedl Böhm as Konstanze, who had a special success with the duet Wenn's's nur schon später wär and an inserted Italian aria from the Ré pastore. Mr. Kurth is an excellently fibbing Josef Lange ("a bag of wind"), Dr. Krögler an elegiac, jealous Süßmeyer suffering, Mr. Lazer a heavily loaded Schachtner and Mr. Puntschart a cozy round host of yours. Not to forget the unfortunately too little used Niese comic of Mrs. Griebl as Veronika. The picturesque view of Hohensalzburg, the splendid apartment of the Duschek couple in Prague and the beautiful cheerful rococo costumes were also successful. But Duhan was Hans Dampf in all gases (?), he will play another role soon, will step down from the stage to the podium, and conduct his work himself. Some things touched us strangely; we doubt whether Duhan had to "bring Mozart closer" to us in this way; but Mozart certainly brought Duhan closer to all of us.
8. 8.ANNO rpt 03 06 1923 11 Theater, Kunst und Musik. „Mozart". Singspiel in zwei Akten und einem Nachspiel von Julius Wilhelm und Paul Frank. Musik von Hans Duhan. (Uraufführung in der Volksoper am 2. Juni 1923.).
9. 9.Erwin Schaeffer.
10. 10.ANNO hum 08 06 1923 2 Theater und Kunst. Volksoper.
11. 11.und S. 6
12. 12.Stock of the Austrian National Library
13. 13.On 3 July of this year, the Federal President awarded solo singer Hans Duhan the title of "Kammersängers, ..." at the Vienna State Opera.

• reference work

  “Hans Duhan”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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• authority record

  Wikidata, structured authority record Q18397244: Hans Duhan

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