Herbert Ernst Groh was a popular Swiss

Switzerland

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 tenor

Tenor

The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...

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Groh was born in Lucerne

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 and subsequently studied in Zurich

Zürich

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 and Milan

Milan

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. One of his teachers was Carl Beines, who also taught Richard Tauber

Richard Tauber

Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Some critics commented that "his heart felt every word he sang".-Early life:...

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He began his opera

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tic singing career in Darmstadt

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 in 1926, with engagements following in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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 and Cologne

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 and a successful tour of Italy

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 in 1927, where he also began to make his first recordings using the name of Ernesto Groh. He then started to appear on German radio and devoted himself to developing a career as a recording artist - also making films, but soon giving up the stage - a career than lasted well into the LP era of the 1950s.

He died in 1982 at Norderstedt

Norderstedt

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 near Hamburg

Hamburg

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Critical appreciation

Like Marcel Wittrisch

Marcel Wittrisch

Marcel Wittrisch was a popular German operatic tenor.Wittrisch was born in Belgium to a German family, and subsequently studied in Munich, Leipzig and Milan. His career began in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt in 1925 in a production of Hans Heiling by Marschner at the Halle Opera House...

, Groh is inevitably compared to his contemporary Richard Tauber

Richard Tauber

Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Some critics commented that "his heart felt every word he sang".-Early life:...

. According to Alan Blyth

Alan Blyth

Geoffrey Alan Blyth was an English music critic, author, and musicologist who was particularly known for his writings within the field of opera. He graduated from the Rugby School before attending the University of Oxford where he studied with Jack Westrup...

: "Groh . . . is fonder yet than Tauber of unwritten touches of quite exceptional delicacy, and surpasses his older coeval in sheer technical control."

Recordings

A selection of Groh's recordings were released in 1990 by Pavilion Records on Pearl (GEMM CD 9419).

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1933	Das Lied vom Glück
1934	Schön ist es verliebt zu sein
1939	Hochzeitsreise zu dritt
1940	Casanova heiratet
	Die keusche Geliebte
1942	So ein Früchtchen