Reinhold von Warlich

Reinhold von Warlich and Fritz Kreisler in 1917

Reinhold von Warlich (May 24, 1877 - November 10, 1939) was a Russian-born American bass-baritone.[1]

Biography

He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 24, 1877. His father was the musical director for the private orchestra of Nicholas II of Russia.[2][1]

He studied at the Hamburg Conservatory and then in Florence, Italy.[1]

He sang in Florence with G. Sulli and I. Braggiotti, and in Cologne with R. Thiele. He made his solo début in Florence in 1899. He toured England, Germany and France. He spent some years in Paris as a singing teacher. His United States début was in 1909 at Mendelssohn Hall in Manhattan, New York City.[1][2]

In 1910 in Paris he married Georgia Cheatham Maize, the widow and second wife of Edward Judson Ovington, who owned the Ovington Gift Shop in Manhattan. Georgia and von Warlich divorced in 1917.[3]

In 1923 he married Bertha von Turk-Rohn, daughter of Baroness Olga von Turk-Rohn.[2][3]

He died on November 10, 1939, in Manhattan, New York City.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Reinhold von Warlich". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 2001. His father was an opera conductor active in St. Petersburg; studied at the Hamburg Cons., in Florence, and in Cologne. He toured in Europe as a singer of German Lieder, and was especially distinguished as an interpreter of Schubert, whose song cycles he gave in their entirety. ...
  2. ^ a b c d "Reinhold von Warlich, Concert Singer and Teacher. Father Led Czar's Orchestra". New York Times. November 13, 1939. Retrieved 2015-03-07. Reinhold Warlich, a bass-baritone concert singer who was at one time a teacher of singing in Paris, died Friday at his residence, 32 East Thirty-sixth Street ...
  3. ^ a b "Married". Time magazine. September 3, 1923. Retrieved 2015-03-10. Married. Reinhold Warlick, 44 concert and opera singer, to Miss Bertha Turk-Rohn, 27, prima donna of the present season of the Voiles Opera, Vienna, daughter of Baroness Olga von Turk-Rohn, in Manhattan. Son of the late Hugo Warlick (business manager of the late Tsar's private orchestra), he was divorced: 1917 from the former Mrs. Edward Judson Ovington, widow of the late owner of the Ovington Gift Shop. Manhattan.