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Erich Walter Vietheer (January 13, 1930 - May 15, 1989) was a
baritone and teacher.
He shared his life and his home with Australian pianist
Geoffrey
Parsons, whom he had met in 1958. Though, like most such personal relationships, it had its ups and downs, they were essentially soul-mates with no musical rivalry between them. They did, early on, give some recitals together, but as Erich’s success as a teacher grew, that aspect of their lives remained something for conversation at their home in West Hampstead (‘The Parsonage,’ as friends called it).
Erich Walter Vietheer was born on January 13, 1930 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Erich Vietheer was a renowned and distinguished vocal music teacher. Vietheer
appeared in the musical, Marigold. Following a German Government Scholarship
to study in Munich, he entered grand opera and has sung with the English Opera
Group. He was in Macbeth (1964) at Glyndebourne and later in 1969 at Opera House, Manchester,
and in the Eugene Onegin (1969) at Opera House, Manchester.
He died on May 15, 1989 in Camden, London, England, UK. Erich’s death from a heart attack left a void in Parsons’s life; he commissioned a stained-glass window in Vietheer’s memory in St Cyprian’s Anglican Church, Marylebone—the church they had attended and where Parsons organised a musically lavish memorial service.
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