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Franz Schwarz

also Frank Schwartz

1858–1919 · Austrian · baritone

Birthplace: Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary

Franz Schwarz was an Austrian baritone, billed abroad as Frank Schwartz, who trained at the Vienna Conservatory under Viktor von Rokitansky before further study in Italy. He made his stage debut at the Komische Oper in Vienna in 1880 and created Duke Robert in the world premiere of Strauss's Guntram at Weimar in 1894. He was a member of the court theatre there from 1886 to 1896 and was made a Kammersänger by the Grand Duke. After America and Breslau he sang major Wagner roles at the Hamburg Stadttheater under Gustav Mahler from 1899 to 1904, and was at the Dresden Court Opera in 1909-10 and then at Halle before settling in Magdeburg from 1915, where he died.

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