User:Prolete/Paul Haase

Hermann Paul Max (Paul) Haase (Potsdam, 8 January 1857 - Cologne, 1 January 1906)  was a German baritone who partially lived and worked in the Netherlands.

Paul Haase was educated in Berlin and sang regularly from 1882 in the Netherlands, amongst others at the Hoogduitse Opera in Rotterdam. There he also became a singing tutor, both privately as at the Rotterdams Conservatorium. From 1895 till 1898 he taught at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, but also for a while in Cincinatti, and from 1898 till 1907 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He himself wrote the libretto for the opera Der falsche Czar by Jan Rijken, in which he would play the main part, but he became ill.

Between 1890 and 1894 he became soloist four times in a performance of the Concertgebouworkest. some of his most well-known students were the concert singers Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann (1879-1941) and Pauline de Haan-Manifarges (1872-1954).

His death as a result of a stroke was national news with articles even in the regional papers. He died soon after his wife, the singer Sophie Bosse.

Literature

 * J.H. Letzer: Muzikaal Nederland 1850-1910. Bio-bibliographical dictionary of Dutch musical artists and writers of musical literature, 2. edition with additions and corrections. Utrecht: J. L. Beijers, 1913, page 64 mentions death in July 1907
 * Geïllustreerd muzieklexicon, edited by Mr. G. Keller and Philip Kruseman, with contributions by Sem Dresden, Wouter Hutschenruijter (1859-1943), Willem Landré, Alexander Voormolen and Henri Zagwijn; published in 1932/1949 bij J. Philip Kruseman, The Hague; page 259