Friedrich Brückner-Rüggeberg

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Friedrich Brückner-Rüggeberg (born December 30, 1915 in Graz , † October 15, 2003 in Waterford ) was a German concert and oratorio singer.

Life

Friedrich Brückner-Rüggeberg comes from a family of artists. His brother Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg and his sister Else Brückner-Rüggeberg also took up an artistic profession. He received his training in Nuremberg and Berlin. As a concert and oratorio singer, his career has taken him to Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Munich as well as abroad, to Salzburg, Linz, Zurich, Bern, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Stockholm. Due to the particular suitability of his lyric tenor for the microphone, he soon came into the program on the various radio stations. His programs of early music - songs and folk songs - made him famous, so that he was hired for special tasks by domestic and foreign record companies. He directed and founded the South German Chamber Vocal Quartet and the Capella Monacensis , an early music ensemble consisting of singers and instrumentalists in the style of a medieval court orchestra. As an interpreter of Heinrich Schütz and Claudio Monteverdi , he gained a special reputation. At the end of the 1950s he became a member of the Bavarian Radio Choir. In 1965 he moved to Freiburg and became a university lecturer for singing at the music academy . He later received a professorship. After his retirement he moved to Ireland near Wexford .

Works (selection)

From concert activities
  • 1950 International Organ Week Marburg: Bach Johannes Passion
  • 1952 Mozart Festival Würzburg: "Mass in C major"
  • 1953 Zurich Festival Week "Mozart Mass and Litany"
  • 1954 1st concert tour in Sweden
  • 1955 8th Intern. Heinrich Schütz Festival Amsterdam
  • 1955 International Organ Week Nuremberg: "Monteverdi Vesper", "Machaut Messe"
  • 1956 Church Music Week in Flensburg: "Mozart Requiem", "Bach Mass in B minor"
  • 1956 Musica Viva Munich: "Stravinsky Messe"
  • 1957 XI. Intern. Heinrich Schütz Festival Bern
  • 1957 2nd concert tour Sweden-Denmark
  • 1959 Hanover NDR "Handel Passion"
  • 1959 Berlin: Public concert at RIAS
  • 1960 Nymphenburg Summer Games in Munich: "Monteverdi Festival Week"
  • 1960 Munich: "Festival concert for the Eucharistic Congress"
  • 1961 Salzburg Castle Concerts "Schubert Evening"
  • 1961 Musica Viva Munich: "Codex Montpellier"
Record recordings
  • Nerone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea ; Walter Goehr ; Choir & Orchestra of the Tonhalle Zurich; Concert Hall Society
  • Glogauer and Lochhamer songbook; DG archive production
  • Heinrich Schütz Musical Exequies; Karl Richter; DG archive production
  • Heinrich Schütz Music of the Renaissance and Gothic; European Phonoklub
  • Sixtus in GF Handel's Julius Caesar; HDL
  • Karl Richter - a universal musician; 2006; Deutsche Grammophon

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personal data
SURNAME Brückner-Rüggeberg, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert and oratorio singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 2003
Place of death Waterford