Schmidt, Joseph b. March 4, 1904 d. November 16, 1942 Operatic tenor. Schmidt was born in Davideny, Buchavina, Rumania, to a farming family. From a very young age he sang in his Shul choir and he displayed a natural talent for singing. He was keen to pursue a musical career, but sympathetic as his mother was to his ideas, so was his father against it. During the First World War he moved with his parents to Czernowitz where, at the age of 20, Joseph gave his first public performance as a concert singer. His uncle, Leo Engel, a crafty manager, took...[Read More] (Bio by: tkejumbo) Friezenberg Cemetery, Fluntern, Zurich, Switzerland
b. March 4, 1904 d. November 16, 1942