Georg Maikl

Born in Hippach near Zell am Ziller in Tyrol, Maikl came from a family of singers and studied singing in Stuttgart with the tenor Anton Hromada.

[1] After he was discovered by Pollini in 1899, a ten-year engagement at the Hamburg Opera failed because he died shortly afterwards.

Instead, Maikl sang at the Mannheim Hofbühne in the same year, where he made his debut in the role of Tamino.

Gustav Mahler brought Maikl in 1904 to the Wiener Staatsoper, where he worked for the rest of his life and impersonated 99 roles until 1942.

[2] Kammersänger Maikl died in Vienna aged 79 and was buried in a grave of honour in the Wiener Zentralfriedhof (group 33A/5/17).