Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik

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Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik (born September 6, 1980 in Berlin ) is a German harpsichordist , improviser , conductor and music researcher.

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Alexander Grychtolik studied harpsichord with Bernhard Klapprott and completed a degree in architecture at the Bauhaus University in Weimar . He then continued his harpsichord studies with Frédérick Haas at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels .

Alexander Grychtolik taught at various music academies (including Frankfurt am Main ) and held a teaching post for the first time in Germany for the subject “Baroque Improvisation Practice” at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . He gives concerts at home and abroad as a harpsichordist, on historical organs and as an ensemble leader. In addition to the interpretation of keyboard works from the 16th to 18th centuries, he is particularly dedicated to historical improvisation, a branch of historical performance practice .

The research and re-performance of vocal and instrumental evidence of baroque residence culture is a focus of his musicological and artistic work. In 2008 he founded the Ensemble Deutsche Hofmusik especially for this purpose . His numerous reconstructions of vocal works by Johann Sebastian Bach , which were broadcast on Deutschlandfunk , Österreichischer Rundfunk and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , among others, attracted international attention . For example, he published a reconstruction of the late version of Bach's lost Markus Passion (BWV 247) from 1744, which was only proven in 2009, and a first complete reconstruction of the so-called Köthener funeral music (BWV244a), which document his exploration of baroque composition techniques.

Publications

CDs (selection)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach : Celebration Cantatas - Escape, you worries. BWV 205a ( Blast Noise, You Enemies , "Coronation Cantata "; world premiere) and 249a ( Escape, disappear, escape, you worries , "Shepherd Cantata"; reconstruction: Alexander Grychtolik). Miriam Feuersinger (soprano), Elvira Bill (alto), Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (bass); German court music, Alexander Grychtolik. German Harmonia Mundi, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doctorate 2010 with the dissertation Musical Values ​​and “Monument Cult”. An axiology of music. VDG, Weimar 2012, Supervisor: Hermann Wirth , Reviewer: Andreas Dorschel .
  2. ↑ Forum early music musicians Koeln- database: Grychtolik , accessed on 20 January 2011th
  3. ↑ Homepage Alexander Grychtolik , accessed on October 23, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Grychtolik, Alexander Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grychtolik, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German harpsichordist, improviser and music researcher
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin