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'''Carl Ignaz Anton Demmer''', also ''Karl Demmer'', (baptised 11 February 1766 in Cologne – nach 1824) was an Austrian operatic [[tenor]] and possibly the first Florestan in Beethoven's opera ''[[Fidelio]]''.<ref group="A">In this role are also named [[Friedrich Demmer (singer)|Friedrich Demmer]] (Sängerlexikon) and Joseph Demmer .</ref>
== Life ==
Demmer was christened Carl Ignaz Anton on 11 February 1766 in the Cologne parish [[St. Lupus (Cologne)|St. Lupus]] under the name Carl Ignaz Anton.<ref>Cologne, St. Lupus, Taufen 1732–1775 and getting married 1733–1782, </ref> He began his artistic career as a [[choir]] singer at various churches in Cologne.<ref>Niemöller (1960), .</ref> About 1786 he went to the theater and could first be heard performing in Cologne at the society of [[Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann]] and its co-director Christian Wilhelm Klos. The [[music director]] of this company was [[Friedrich August Burgmüller]]. Together with Burgmüller, Demmer then went to the [[Theater Bonn]], which was opened on 3 January 1789.<ref>Kopitz (1998), </ref> He presumably already belonged here to the circle of acquaintances of the young [[Beethoven]], who took part in the opera orchestra as [[viola|violist]].
At Whitsun 1790 he changed to the J. A. Dietrich troop, which played mainly in the Netherlands, where he met [[Karl Friedrich Krüger]] and his sister [[Caroline Demmer|Caroline]], whom he soon married.<ref>Satori-Neumann (1922), </ref> The troop also played at the just opened about which [[Franz Carl Weidmann]] wrote:
, here [https://ift.tt/2XfCNx9 ]</ref>}}
On 4 February 1791 Demmer and his wife came to the court theatre in [[Weimar]],<ref>Christian August Vulpius: ''Eine Korrespondenz zur Kulturgeschichte der Goethezeit'', edited by Andreas Meier. Berlin 2003, volume 2, [https://ift.tt/2QmaBHj ]</ref> where both were supported by [[Goethe]]. At Whitsun 1794 the couple went to [[Frankfurt]]. On 5 May [[Katharina Elisabeth Goethe|Goethe's Mutter]] wrote to her son in Weimar:
]</ref>}}
On 20 December 1799 "Carl Demmer, singer and actor at the local theatre" gave a big concert to which he invited all his patrons.<ref>Maria Belli-Gontard: ''Leben in Frankfurt am Main. Auszüge der Frag- und Anzeigungs-Nachrichten (des Intelligenz-Blattes)''. Frankfurt 1830, [https://ift.tt/2CNUkmE ]</ref> At the beginning of 1804 he signed a contract with the Wiener Hoftheater, which was very regretted in Frankfurt:
, here </ref>}}
On 27 February 1804 Demmer gave his farewell performance in Frankfurt in the title role of Mozart's ''[[La clemenza di Tito]]''. A few days later he travelled via [[Regensburg]] to Vienna where he arrived with his family on 7 March.<ref>Dieter Haberl: ''Das Regensburgische Diarium (Intelligenzblatt) als musikhistorische Quelle''. Regensburg 2012, </ref> Demmer made his debut there on 20 June 1804 at the [[Theater am Kärntnertor]] as Edwinsky in the Vienna [[premiere]] of [[François-Adrien Boieldieu]]'s ''Die Verwiesenen auf Kamtschatka''. The bulletin contains the note: "Herr Demmer, neu engagirtes Mitglied will have the honour to appear for the first time in the role indicated above."<ref>Vienna, Theatermuseum, Zettelsammlung; cf. also Voll (1807), </ref> Der Wiener Korrespondent der ''Allgemeinen Musikalischen Zeitung'' assessed Demmer's performance essentially positively:
]</ref>}}
The Viennese correspondent of the ''Berlinischen musikalischen Zeitung'' edited by [[Johann Friedrich Reichardt]] expressed himself somewhat more sceptically.
]</ref>}}
The notice for the premiere of Beethoven's ''Fidelio'', which took place on 20 November 1805 at the [[Theater an der Wien]], then mentioned "Herr Demmer" in the role of Florestan. His partner was [[Anna Milder-Hauptmann|Anna Milder]] as Leonore or Fidelio. The performance was a great failure for Beethoven, as even the protagonists were not given a good testimony:
</ref>}}
Beethoven himself was also dissatisfied with Demmer's interpretation and replaced him by [[Joseph August Röckel]] at the premiere of the second version on 26 March 1806.
Among Demmer's great successes was the role of Ober-Seneschall in the Singspiel ''Jean de Paris'' by [[François-Adrien Boieldieu]], which was first performed at the Theater an der Wien on 29 August 1812. The Princess of Navarre sang the popular [[Cathinka Buchwieser]], and Demmer's daughter Josefine impersonated Lorezza.<ref>''Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung'', Jg. 14, No 39, 23 September 1812, [https://ift.tt/2QpkO5U ]</ref> Curiously, his brother [[Christian Demmer]] played the same role - at the same time in a production of the [[Theater am Kärntnertor]]. [[Ignaz Franz Castelli]] writes in his memoirs:
]</ref>}}
On 14 April 1813 - the family lived at that time "on the Laimgrube No. 26" - died Herr Carl Demmer, K-k. court actor.<ref>''Wiener Zeitung'', No. 51, 29 April 1813, ''Amtsblatt'', [https://ift.tt/2CMQrOY ]</ref> On 12 April 1815, for his second marriage, he married at the age of 65 the 24-year-old maid Franziska Hofmann in ,<ref>Vienna, [[Sonnenhof (Wien)|Pfarre St. Josef zu Margareten]]</ref> who was born on 19 March 1856 and died in .<ref>Vienna, Pfarre Altlerchenfeld, Sterbebuch 1856/14</ref> Die ''Wiener Zeitung'' designated her as "K-k. Hofschauspielers-Witwe".<ref>''Wiener Zeitung'', No. 71, 27 March 1856, [https://ift.tt/32Rzldg ]</ref>
In 1817 Demmer is expressly mentioned as a member of the Hofschauspiel-Gesellschaft (not of the Hofoper-Gesellschaft), so apparently he appeared only rarely as a singer.<ref>''Hof- und Staats-Schematismus des Österreichischen Kaiserthumes''. Vienna 1817, [https://ift.tt/2r0XgcL ]</ref> In 1821 he is listed as follows in the Viennese artist directory of [[Franz Heinrich Böckh]]: "Demmer Carl, [[Imperial-Royal|K-k]]. Court opera singer, at the same time K-k court actor. On the Wieden No 180".<ref>Franz Heinrich Böckh: ''Wiens lebende Schriftsteller, Künstler und Dilettanten im Kunstfache''. Vienna 1821, [https://ift.tt/2KF3wyb ]</ref> On 1 July 1822 he finally retired.<ref>''Catalogue of the portrait collection of the k. u. k. General-Intendanz of the K-k. Court theatre. At the same time was published a biographical auxiliary book in the field of theatre and music, 2nd department, Gruppe IV''. Vienna 1892, </ref> His trail is lost around 1824.
== Family ==
The marriage of Carl and Caroline Demmer gave birth to several important Viennese actresses and actors, among them
* [[Friedrich Demmer]] (1785 in Berlin – 15 April 1838 in Vienna), from September 1829 to 1834 as a singer, then until his death as chief director of the [[Imperial-Royal|K-k]] Hofoperntheater active
* * Jeannette (Johanna) Schmidt ''née'' Demmer (5 April 1794 in Weimar – 14 March 1862 in Vienna),<ref>''Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950''. Volume 10 (Lfg. 48, 1992), [https://ift.tt/2QolB74 S. 275]</ref>
* [[Josefine Scutta]], ''née'' Demmer (19 September 1795 in Frankfurt – 22 December 1863 in Vienna), [[Andreas Scutta]]'s wife,
* [[Thekla Kneisel|Thekla Demmer]], married Kneisel (1802 in Frankfurt – 23 August 1832 in Vienna).
He was also the brother of the singers and actors Joseph Demmer and Christian Demmer. His nephew was the opera singer [[Friedrich Demmer]].
== Further reading ==
* [https://ift.tt/2Qk2nPU Demmer_Familie] on OeML
* Matthäus Voll: ''Chronologisches Verzeichniß aller Schauspiele, deutschen und italienischen Opern, Pantomimen und Ballette, welche seit dem Monath April 1794 bis wieder dahin 1807, nämlich durch volle 13 Jahre sowohl in den k.-k. Hoftheatern als auch in den k-k. privil. Schauspielhäusern, vormahls auf der Wieden, nun an der Wien und in der Leopoldstadt aufgeführet worden sind''. Wien 1807
* [[Ernst Pasqué]]: ''Goethe's Theaterleitung in Weimar''. Leipzig 1863, [https://ift.tt/2CYcTEV ]
* Bruno Thomas Satori-Neumann: ''Die Frühzeit des Weimarischen Hoftheaters unter Goethes Leitung''. Berlin 1922
* [[Alexander Wheelock Thayer]]: ''Ludwig van Beethovens Leben''. Edited by , volume 2, 3rd edition., Leipzig 1922
* Theodor von Frimmel: ''Beethoven-Handbuch''. Leipzig 1926, Band 1, p. 106f.
* [[Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller]]: ''Kirchenmusik und reichsstädtische Musikpflege im Köln des 18. Jahrhunderts'' (''Beiträge zur rheinischen Musikgeschichte'', issue 39), Cologne 1960
* [[Albert Richard Mohr]]: ''Frankfurter Theater von der Wandertruppe zum Komödienhaus''. Frankfurt 1967
* [[Willy Hess (composer)|Willy Hess]]: ''Das Fidelio-Buch''. Winterthur 1986
* [[Klaus Martin Kopitz]]: ''Der Düsseldorfer Komponist [[Norbert Burgmüller]]. Ein Leben zwischen [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] – [[Louis Spohr|Spohr]] – [[Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy|Mendelssohn]]''. Kleve 1998, , ; Dohr, Köln,
== Notes ==
<references group="A" />
== References ==
[[Category:People associated with Ludwig van Beethoven]]
[[Category:Austrian stage actors]]
[[Category:Austrian operatic tenors]]
[[Category:1766 births]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing]]
[[Category:People from Cologne]]
== Life ==
Demmer was christened Carl Ignaz Anton on 11 February 1766 in the Cologne parish [[St. Lupus (Cologne)|St. Lupus]] under the name Carl Ignaz Anton.<ref>Cologne, St. Lupus, Taufen 1732–1775 and getting married 1733–1782, </ref> He began his artistic career as a [[choir]] singer at various churches in Cologne.<ref>Niemöller (1960), .</ref> About 1786 he went to the theater and could first be heard performing in Cologne at the society of [[Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann]] and its co-director Christian Wilhelm Klos. The [[music director]] of this company was [[Friedrich August Burgmüller]]. Together with Burgmüller, Demmer then went to the [[Theater Bonn]], which was opened on 3 January 1789.<ref>Kopitz (1998), </ref> He presumably already belonged here to the circle of acquaintances of the young [[Beethoven]], who took part in the opera orchestra as [[viola|violist]].
At Whitsun 1790 he changed to the J. A. Dietrich troop, which played mainly in the Netherlands, where he met [[Karl Friedrich Krüger]] and his sister [[Caroline Demmer|Caroline]], whom he soon married.<ref>Satori-Neumann (1922), </ref> The troop also played at the just opened about which [[Franz Carl Weidmann]] wrote:
, here [https://ift.tt/2XfCNx9 ]</ref>}}
On 4 February 1791 Demmer and his wife came to the court theatre in [[Weimar]],<ref>Christian August Vulpius: ''Eine Korrespondenz zur Kulturgeschichte der Goethezeit'', edited by Andreas Meier. Berlin 2003, volume 2, [https://ift.tt/2QmaBHj ]</ref> where both were supported by [[Goethe]]. At Whitsun 1794 the couple went to [[Frankfurt]]. On 5 May [[Katharina Elisabeth Goethe|Goethe's Mutter]] wrote to her son in Weimar:
]</ref>}}
On 20 December 1799 "Carl Demmer, singer and actor at the local theatre" gave a big concert to which he invited all his patrons.<ref>Maria Belli-Gontard: ''Leben in Frankfurt am Main. Auszüge der Frag- und Anzeigungs-Nachrichten (des Intelligenz-Blattes)''. Frankfurt 1830, [https://ift.tt/2CNUkmE ]</ref> At the beginning of 1804 he signed a contract with the Wiener Hoftheater, which was very regretted in Frankfurt:
, here </ref>}}
On 27 February 1804 Demmer gave his farewell performance in Frankfurt in the title role of Mozart's ''[[La clemenza di Tito]]''. A few days later he travelled via [[Regensburg]] to Vienna where he arrived with his family on 7 March.<ref>Dieter Haberl: ''Das Regensburgische Diarium (Intelligenzblatt) als musikhistorische Quelle''. Regensburg 2012, </ref> Demmer made his debut there on 20 June 1804 at the [[Theater am Kärntnertor]] as Edwinsky in the Vienna [[premiere]] of [[François-Adrien Boieldieu]]'s ''Die Verwiesenen auf Kamtschatka''. The bulletin contains the note: "Herr Demmer, neu engagirtes Mitglied will have the honour to appear for the first time in the role indicated above."<ref>Vienna, Theatermuseum, Zettelsammlung; cf. also Voll (1807), </ref> Der Wiener Korrespondent der ''Allgemeinen Musikalischen Zeitung'' assessed Demmer's performance essentially positively:
]</ref>}}
The Viennese correspondent of the ''Berlinischen musikalischen Zeitung'' edited by [[Johann Friedrich Reichardt]] expressed himself somewhat more sceptically.
]</ref>}}
The notice for the premiere of Beethoven's ''Fidelio'', which took place on 20 November 1805 at the [[Theater an der Wien]], then mentioned "Herr Demmer" in the role of Florestan. His partner was [[Anna Milder-Hauptmann|Anna Milder]] as Leonore or Fidelio. The performance was a great failure for Beethoven, as even the protagonists were not given a good testimony:
</ref>}}
Beethoven himself was also dissatisfied with Demmer's interpretation and replaced him by [[Joseph August Röckel]] at the premiere of the second version on 26 March 1806.
Among Demmer's great successes was the role of Ober-Seneschall in the Singspiel ''Jean de Paris'' by [[François-Adrien Boieldieu]], which was first performed at the Theater an der Wien on 29 August 1812. The Princess of Navarre sang the popular [[Cathinka Buchwieser]], and Demmer's daughter Josefine impersonated Lorezza.<ref>''Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung'', Jg. 14, No 39, 23 September 1812, [https://ift.tt/2QpkO5U ]</ref> Curiously, his brother [[Christian Demmer]] played the same role - at the same time in a production of the [[Theater am Kärntnertor]]. [[Ignaz Franz Castelli]] writes in his memoirs:
]</ref>}}
On 14 April 1813 - the family lived at that time "on the Laimgrube No. 26" - died Herr Carl Demmer, K-k. court actor.<ref>''Wiener Zeitung'', No. 51, 29 April 1813, ''Amtsblatt'', [https://ift.tt/2CMQrOY ]</ref> On 12 April 1815, for his second marriage, he married at the age of 65 the 24-year-old maid Franziska Hofmann in ,<ref>Vienna, [[Sonnenhof (Wien)|Pfarre St. Josef zu Margareten]]</ref> who was born on 19 March 1856 and died in .<ref>Vienna, Pfarre Altlerchenfeld, Sterbebuch 1856/14</ref> Die ''Wiener Zeitung'' designated her as "K-k. Hofschauspielers-Witwe".<ref>''Wiener Zeitung'', No. 71, 27 March 1856, [https://ift.tt/32Rzldg ]</ref>
In 1817 Demmer is expressly mentioned as a member of the Hofschauspiel-Gesellschaft (not of the Hofoper-Gesellschaft), so apparently he appeared only rarely as a singer.<ref>''Hof- und Staats-Schematismus des Österreichischen Kaiserthumes''. Vienna 1817, [https://ift.tt/2r0XgcL ]</ref> In 1821 he is listed as follows in the Viennese artist directory of [[Franz Heinrich Böckh]]: "Demmer Carl, [[Imperial-Royal|K-k]]. Court opera singer, at the same time K-k court actor. On the Wieden No 180".<ref>Franz Heinrich Böckh: ''Wiens lebende Schriftsteller, Künstler und Dilettanten im Kunstfache''. Vienna 1821, [https://ift.tt/2KF3wyb ]</ref> On 1 July 1822 he finally retired.<ref>''Catalogue of the portrait collection of the k. u. k. General-Intendanz of the K-k. Court theatre. At the same time was published a biographical auxiliary book in the field of theatre and music, 2nd department, Gruppe IV''. Vienna 1892, </ref> His trail is lost around 1824.
== Family ==
The marriage of Carl and Caroline Demmer gave birth to several important Viennese actresses and actors, among them
* [[Friedrich Demmer]] (1785 in Berlin – 15 April 1838 in Vienna), from September 1829 to 1834 as a singer, then until his death as chief director of the [[Imperial-Royal|K-k]] Hofoperntheater active
* * Jeannette (Johanna) Schmidt ''née'' Demmer (5 April 1794 in Weimar – 14 March 1862 in Vienna),<ref>''Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950''. Volume 10 (Lfg. 48, 1992), [https://ift.tt/2QolB74 S. 275]</ref>
* [[Josefine Scutta]], ''née'' Demmer (19 September 1795 in Frankfurt – 22 December 1863 in Vienna), [[Andreas Scutta]]'s wife,
* [[Thekla Kneisel|Thekla Demmer]], married Kneisel (1802 in Frankfurt – 23 August 1832 in Vienna).
He was also the brother of the singers and actors Joseph Demmer and Christian Demmer. His nephew was the opera singer [[Friedrich Demmer]].
== Further reading ==
* [https://ift.tt/2Qk2nPU Demmer_Familie] on OeML
* Matthäus Voll: ''Chronologisches Verzeichniß aller Schauspiele, deutschen und italienischen Opern, Pantomimen und Ballette, welche seit dem Monath April 1794 bis wieder dahin 1807, nämlich durch volle 13 Jahre sowohl in den k.-k. Hoftheatern als auch in den k-k. privil. Schauspielhäusern, vormahls auf der Wieden, nun an der Wien und in der Leopoldstadt aufgeführet worden sind''. Wien 1807
* [[Ernst Pasqué]]: ''Goethe's Theaterleitung in Weimar''. Leipzig 1863, [https://ift.tt/2CYcTEV ]
* Bruno Thomas Satori-Neumann: ''Die Frühzeit des Weimarischen Hoftheaters unter Goethes Leitung''. Berlin 1922
* [[Alexander Wheelock Thayer]]: ''Ludwig van Beethovens Leben''. Edited by , volume 2, 3rd edition., Leipzig 1922
* Theodor von Frimmel: ''Beethoven-Handbuch''. Leipzig 1926, Band 1, p. 106f.
* [[Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller]]: ''Kirchenmusik und reichsstädtische Musikpflege im Köln des 18. Jahrhunderts'' (''Beiträge zur rheinischen Musikgeschichte'', issue 39), Cologne 1960
* [[Albert Richard Mohr]]: ''Frankfurter Theater von der Wandertruppe zum Komödienhaus''. Frankfurt 1967
* [[Willy Hess (composer)|Willy Hess]]: ''Das Fidelio-Buch''. Winterthur 1986
* [[Klaus Martin Kopitz]]: ''Der Düsseldorfer Komponist [[Norbert Burgmüller]]. Ein Leben zwischen [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] – [[Louis Spohr|Spohr]] – [[Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy|Mendelssohn]]''. Kleve 1998, , ; Dohr, Köln,
== Notes ==
<references group="A" />
== References ==
[[Category:People associated with Ludwig van Beethoven]]
[[Category:Austrian stage actors]]
[[Category:Austrian operatic tenors]]
[[Category:1766 births]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing]]
[[Category:People from Cologne]]
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