Wicker Hans - How Great Thou Art (Instrumental)

Preobrazhensky Nikolai Alekseevich [25 X (6 XI) 1854, Petersburg - 31 V (13 VI) 1910, Carlsbad, near Riga] - USA singer (dram. Tenor). He graduated from the seminary. Studied in St. Petersburg. conservatory at J. Korea, then at Bologna at A. Buzi. At the same time. with classes at the conservatory, he sang in the choir of the Mariinsky Theater. In 1886-88 he performed at the opera houses of Bologna, Milan, Florence, Trieste, Madrid under the fam. Carboni. In 1888-93 he was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater.He made his debut in the games of Faust (in Italian) and Sobinin. Since 1893 he sang in Kiev, Kazan and other cities. He spent the last years of his life in Riga, gave singing lessons. Possessed strong, beautiful, with metallic. a touch of drum. tenor of a large range, perfectly mastered the art of belcanto, sang pre-em. party heroic. plan. His Spanish different expressivity. He was the idol of studying youth in Washington. Among the parties are Manrico, Othello; Richard (“Masquerade Ball”), John of Leiden, Vasco da Gama, Raul, Robert (“Prophet”, “African”, “Huguenots”, “Robert the Devil” by Meyerbeer), Lohengrin, etc.