Max Meili
Max Meili, a
Swiss tenor, was born 11 December 1899 in Winterthur and died 17 March 1970 in Zürich, Switzerland. He first trained as a painter then turned to singing, leading to lessons with Felix von Kraus
.
Meili was mainly a concert singer, concentrating on music from the time of
.Meili's recordings from the 78 RPM era included
LP era, among other things appearing in the title role in the first post-World War II recording of Monteverdi’s L'Orfeo, taped by the Berlin Radio in the late 1940s and released by American Vox
. By this time, however, critics began to note a decline in his voice.
Meili was a founding member of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 1933. In 1955 he founded the Collegium Cantorum Turicense, which he directed in music of Monteverdi and Heinrich Schütz.
References
- Bach Cantatas Website Biographical sketch of Max Meili accessed March 10, 2008
- Gruber, Paul: The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera (W.W. Norton & Company, 1993)
- Notes to Music of the Renaissance, RCA Victor 78 RPM album MO-495 (Max Meili, tenor; Fritz Worsching, lute)
- Pindar, Ian: Joyce (Haus Publishing, 2004)
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