Josef Traxel
Josef Traxel (29 September 1916 in
Mozart
roles and the German repertory.
He studied at the
Munich State Opera and the Vienna State Opera, also appearing in the Netherlands
and Switzerland. He frequently performed in, and recorded, sacred music.
He possessed a finely poised tenor with an unusually high tessitura, his wide repertoire ranged from
Bach's oratorios. In 1963, he was a teacher at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule
.
Sources
- Biography on Operissimo.com (in German)