Rudolf Moest
Rudolf Moest (22 April 1872 – 28 April 1919) was a German operatic bass and baritone. Life. Moest was born in Karlsruhe the son of the sculptor Karl Friedrich Moest. Already at an early age, people became aware of his voice, and it was first Carl Speigler and later Fritz Plank who put him on stage. He took lessons from Carl Hermann and Franz Krückl and started his stage career in 1882 in Strasbourg, where he made his debut as "Ruggiero" in "La Juive" and stayed there four years. In 1896, he joined the association of the court theatre  in Hanover, of which he was a member until 1914. In 1900, he made a guest appearance at the Oper Frankfurt in June and at the Hoftheater in Vienna in November. In 1909, he was König Heinrich in "Lohengrin" and Titurel in "Parsifal" at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1914, he went to the court opera in Vienna, where he had great success as "Hans Sachs" in "Die Meistersinger". Guest performances brought him to the court theatre in Karlsruhe (1902), to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (1903-1910), to Cologne (1905-1908), then to Dresden (1906), Munich and Stuttgart, to the  German theatre in Prague (1907, 1909) and Weimar. Moest died at the age of 47. On the day of his death, he was still singing in Vienna. His voice has been preserved on Parlophone, Odeon and Pathé records. Moest's brothers were the sculptor and the actor .