Anton Sistermans
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Anton Sistermans
Anton Sistermans (5 August 1865 – 18 March 1926)[1][2] was a Dutch baritone of the late 19th-early 20th century, who was notable for his performance of lieder and oratorio. He premiered important compositions by Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler, and had lieder dedicated to him by Hans Pfitzner, Eugen d'Albert and Alexander von Zemlinsky.
Biography
Anton Sistermans was born in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1865. He was a choir boy initially, then studied under Julius Stockhausen in Frankfurt.[3] His debut was in 1889, in a performance of the Verdi Requiem in Strasburg.[4]
On 16 March 1896 in Berlin, he premiered the orchestral version of Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, with the composer conducting the Berlin Philharmonic.[5][6]
On 9 November of the same year,[7] in the presence of the composer, Sistermans gave the first performance of Johannes Brahms's Vier ernste Gesänge in Vienna, with the pianist Coenraad V. Bos.[4][8][9]
His operatic appearances were few in number. They included Gurnemanz in Parsifal and Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, at the 1899 Bayreuth Festival; Titurel in Parsifal in Amsterdam in 1919; and Tommaso in Eugen d'Albert'sTiefland in the Hague in 1923.[4]
He later taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and the Hague Conservatorium. Anton Sistermans died in the Hague in 1926, aged 60.
He made a few sparse recordings in 1904 and 1906, limited to selected lieder of Brahms.[10][11]
Works dedicated to him included:
- Eugen d'Albert: Songs, Op. 21[12]
- Hans Pfitzner: Five Lieder, Op. 9[13]
- Erich Jaques Wolff: song, Tag meines Lebens, Op. 13/2[14]
- Alexander von Zemlinsky: Thirteen Songs, Op. 2 [15]
References
- ^ Classical Almanac
- ^ ozg-orpheus
- ^ arsc-audio
- ^ a b c Nederlands Muziek Instituut
- ^ San Francisco Symphony
- ^ opl.be
- ^ zeno.org
- ^ Nederlands Muziek Instituut
- ^ Barbara Owen, The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms
- ^ ArkivMusic
- ^ ArkivMusic
- ^ archive.org
- ^ rodoni.ch
- ^ IMSLP
- ^ Lorraine Gorrell, Discordant Melody: Alexander von Zemlinsky, His Songs and the Second Viennese School
External links
- Anton Sistermans at Allmusic
- Anton Sistermans 401dutchdivas.nl 2007 (Dutch)
- Anton Sistermans findagrave.com
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