Friedrich Krell

Friedrich Krell (born July 13, 1928 in Wiesbaden ) is a German choir teacher and conductor .

Life

Friedrich Krell studied music and chemistry as a teacher from 1947 to 1951 at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . He then became a senior teacher in Wernigerode . In 1951 Krell founded a mixed choir, which later became the Wernigerode Radio Youth Choir , of which he was artistic director for 45 years.

In 1970 he received his doctorate in Hall with the thesis for the interpretation and reception of Italian secular polyphonic vocal music of the 16th century to Dr. phil. , 1982 professorship

In 1991 he was appointed head of the State High School for Music in Wernigerode . In 1996 he retired, but remained a member of the State Music Council of Saxony-Anhalt. One week before his 80th birthday, he led the radio youth choir again on July 5, 2008 in an open-air concert on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt .

Honors

• Culture Prize of the City of Wernigerode (2001)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (May 14, 2003)
• In 2008 Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk filmed about his work on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
• Music Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (2015)
• Honorary conductor of the State Youth Choir Saxony-Anhalt
• Honorary conductor of the radio youth choir Wernigerode
• 1962 Honored Teacher of the People
• 1966 Erich Weinert Medal from the FDJ
• 1976 Art Prize of the GDR
• 1986 FDGB art award of the GDR
• 1986 National Prize of the GDR 1st class for art and literature (in the design collective of the festival program for the 40th anniversary of the Unification Party Congress and on the occasion of the conclusion of the XI Party Congress of the SED)

Web links

• Works by and about Friedrich Krell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography of Friedrich Krell ( Memento from April 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Office of the Federal President