Georg Maikl

Georg Maikl (4 April 1872 – 22 August 1951) was an Austrian operatic tenor.

Grave of Georg Maikl and his daughter Liselotte Maikl in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Life

Born in Hippach near Zell am Ziller in Tyrol, Maikl came from a family of singers and studied singing in Stuttgart with the tenor Anton Hromada.[1]

After he was discovered by Pollini in 1899, a ten-year engagement at the Hamburg Opera failed because he died shortly afterwards. Instead, Maikl sang at the Mannheim Hofbühne in the same year, where he made his debut in the role of Tamino.

Gustav Mahler brought Maikl in 1904 to the Wiener Staatsoper, where he worked for the rest of his life and impersonated 99 roles until 1942. From 1906 to 1910, he worked for the Salzburg Mozart festivals and from 1920 for the Salzburg Festival.[2]

Kammersänger Maikl died in Vienna aged 79 and was buried in a grave of honour in the Wiener Zentralfriedhof (group 33A/5/17). In 1959, the Maiklgasse in Vienna-Favoriten was named after him.[3]

His daughter was the soprano Liselotte Maikl (1925–2014).[4]

Performance

Maikl was above all a Mozart singer. But he also sang almost all the lyrical and musical parts, including the leading roles in La Bohème and La traviata, Don Octavio, Belmonte or Faust. In total, he mastered 99 roles and appeared 3062 times on the Vienna stage. Therefore Richard Strauss described him as the most dutiful member of the company.[5]

Awards
  • Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich (1929)[6]
  • Liste der Ehrenmitglieder der Wiener Staatsoper (1941)
  • Kammersänger

Further reading
  • Ludwig Eisenberg: Großes biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert. Paul List publishing house, Leipzig 1903, p. 633, (Georg Maikl is available for free download at the Internet Archive).
  • Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien Bd. 4. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995

References
  1. Alexander Rausch, Monika Kornberger Maikl, Familie on Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon Online-Edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5; Printed edition: Volume 3, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7.
  2. Klaus Ulrich Spiegel: Phänomen der Beständigkeit – Bühneneinsätze ohne Zeit- und Fachgrenzen: Georg Maikl, cantore universale auf ku-spiegel.de
  3. Georg Maikl in Vienna History Wiki
  4. derStandard.at - Kammersängerin Liselotte Maikl gestorben. Article dated 11 December 2014, retrieved 5 November 2020.
  5. Georg Maikl Tonaufnahme aus dem Archiv der Österreichischen Mediathek: ('In fernem Land' aus Lohengrin)
  6. Lokales. Kammersänger Georg Maikl. Badener Zeitung, 30 November 1929, p. 2, on ANNO, Badener Zeitung
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