{{Infobox musical artist | name = Alexander Heinemann | image = Heinemann, Alexander.jpg | caption = Alexander Heinemann around 1907 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1873|05|26}} | birth_place = Berlin | death_date = {{Death date and age|1918|10|26|1873|05|26}} | death_place = Berlin | genre = Lied | occupation = Singer | instrument = Baritone }}
'''Alexander Heinemann''' (1873{{snd}}1918) was a German baritone who specialized in ''Lieder'' and ''Oratorio''. He recorded a large number of phonographs between 1908 and 1913.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Sommeregger |first=Peter |date=2023-06-28 |title=Sommereggers Klassikwelt 191: Der Bariton Alexander Heinemann brachte Deutsches Liedgut in die USA 28. Juni 2023 |url=https://klassik-begeistert.de/sommereggers-klassikwelt-191-der-bariton-alexander-heinemann-brachte-deutsches-liedgut-in-die-usa/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=Klassik begeistert |language=de}}</ref> He toured the United States in 1910 and performed at the White House for President Taft.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Spann |first=C. Edward |url=https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=k4Z7OaO_L5wC&lpg=PA181&dq=Alexander+Heinemann+baritone&hl=sv&pg=PA181&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Alexander%20Heinemann%20baritone&f=false |title=Presidential Praise: Our Presidents and Their Hymns |last2=Williams |first2=Michael Edward |date=2008 |publisher=Mercer University Press |isbn=978-0-88146-117-6 |pages=181 |language=en}}</ref>
== Career == Heinemann learned to play piano, violin and trombone in his youth, before he started his formal education as a singer at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. He started to perform in public in 1895, specializing in Oratorio and ''Lieder''.<ref name=":0" /> Between 1908 and 1913 he recorded many phonographs for the record companies Berliner Gramophone, Odeon Records, His Master's Voice and Edison-Amberol.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alexander Heinemann |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/320664/Heinemann_Alexander |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=Discography of American Historical Recordings |language=en}}</ref>
Between 1906 and 1910, Heinemann toured Europe, including Stockholm, London and Vienna.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1908 |title=London Concerts |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/905225 |journal=The Musical Times |volume=49 |issue=784 |pages=395–396 |issn=0027-4666}}</ref> Between 1910 and 1913 he toured the United States. In 1910 and 1911 he performed at the Sunday night concerts of the Metropolitan Opera and sang at the White House for President Taft.<ref name=":0" />
== External links ==
* Heinemann sings Beethoven´s ''Ich Liebe Dich'', [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2P5yyEzgwc 1910] * Heinemann sings Fridericus [https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detail.php?query_type=mms_id&query=990045927260203776 Rex]
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