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Posted 3 Years ago #1
Ken B Lane wrote

I read somewhere Wagner was a tenor and the reason he didn't perform his own work was because he had trouble staying on key when he sang. As for him being short, 5'5' was not considered as short in the 19th Century as it is nowadays. Wasn't average German height only about 5'6'. Even some of the early 20th Century books on anthropometrics regarded 5'9' as being tall.

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Posted 3 Years ago #2
tall.

No doubt Peter the Great (6' 7', Abraham Lincoln (6' 4' and George Washington (6' 2' were considered freaks.
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Posted 3 Years ago #3
Among musicians who composed opera, the best I can come up with was Louis or Ludwig Spohr, who (I have read) was 6'6'.
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Posted 3 Years ago #4
Clintonm held a tenor, and look where it got him - assistant mouthpiece tester...
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