age ~60
from New York, NY
…Apocalypse is performed in Frankfurt in 1926 under Otto Klemperer with Erbe (an allusion to Karl Erb, the famous Evangelist of Bach's St Matthew Passion) as the St John narrator. (As a music reviewer Thomas Mann had been witness to Erb's oratorio debuts in around 1916.) Zeitblom describes th...
Karl Erb (b. 13 July 1877 in Ravensburg 13 July 1958) was a German tenor vocalist who made his career first in opera and then in oratorio and lieder ...