Josef Spitzeder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Spitzeder

German singer and opera singer

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1796

Place of Birth: Kassel, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 13-Dec-1832

Profession: singer, stage actor, opera singer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Johann Josef Spitzeder (?–1832) was a German actor and singer.
A popular artist in his own right, he is today mostly remembered for being the father of confidence trickster and actress Adele Spitzeder. Spitzeder's year of birth is unclear.
According to the Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950, Spitzeder was born on 2 September 1794 in Bonn in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne.
His entry in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie quotes a contemporary source with saying he was born in 1795, also in Bonn.
The Directory of German Biography gives his birth year as 1796 and lists him as born in Kassel.He was educated by Joseph Weigl in Vienna where he got his start as an opera singer in 1816.
In 1816, he also married Henriette Spitzeder (né Schüler), a talented soprano in her own right.
Both were hired together in 1819 to play at the Theater an der Wien where Spitzeder excelled in buffo roles.
The couple was engaged by the Königsstädtisches Theaterin Berlin in 1824.
After the death of his first wife during childbirth in 1828, he remarried Betty Vio.
Spitzeder died on 13 December 1832 in Munich, shortly after being called to work at the Bavarian State Opera.