Christoph Spering

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Christoph Spering (born June 23, 1959 in Simmern / Hunsrück ) is a German conductor and church musician .

Life

Christoph Spering is the older brother of the conductor Andreas Spering . He studied church music at the Cologne University of Music and holds the title of church music director .

Spering was best known for his expansion of historical performance practice to include 19th century music, particularly Schumann and Mendelssohn . In 1985 he founded the Chorus Musicus Köln and in 1988 Das Neue Orchester . He became known internationally with the first recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in the Mendelssohn version of 1841. For the recording of Mendelssohn's Elias , Spering and his ensembles received the ECHO Klassik award from the German Phono Academy in 2011 , as well as in 2017 together with the Chorus Musicus Köln and the New Orchestra for the recording of the Luther cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach .

Christoph Spering, grandson of the Simmern superintendent Ernst Karl Gillmann , works as cantor of the Protestant parish in Cologne-Mülheim , he lives in Kerpen .

Recordings (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church music: Five directors and one director appointed. Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , February 18, 2005, archived from the original on October 18, 2014 ; accessed on June 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ ECHO Klassik 2011 for Christoph Spering and Das Neue Orchester / Chorus Musicus Cologne . Musikforum Köln, accessed on October 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ Our Cantor: Church Music Director (KMD) Christoph Spering . Ev. Mülheim am Rhein parish, accessed on June 13, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Spering, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmer