Gustav Scharfe (11 September 1835 – 25 June 1892)[1] was a German operatic baritone and voice teacher.
Born in Grimma, Saxony,[1] Scharfe was originally an assistant teacher (1854) at the Freiherrlich von Fletchersches Lehrerseminar [de] and in 1856 at the Leipzig Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
[4] Returning to Dresden, he devoted himself very successfully to teaching singing, most recently at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden (along, among others, Felix Draeseke, Aglaja Orgeni[5]).
He was awarded the title Professor of Music by the King of Saxony for his services as a teacher in 1880.
[1][6] Scharfe published an excellent singing school: Die methodische Entwicklung der Stimme (The Methodical Development of the Voice).