Richard Mayr was an Austrian bass, one of the notable Viennese singers of the early twentieth century. He was especially associated with Mozart, Strauss and German repertory.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Weingartner’s Beethoven Ninth and in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann, Maria Olszewska and Elisabeth Schumann.

Mayr’s singing brought Viennese style, character and firm bass authority to repertory that depends on verbal and theatrical finesse.

His page is justified by repeated catalogue presence and historical standing. Mayr gives the early Viennese opera shelf a richly grained bass voice.