Hans-Joachim Rotzsch

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The Thomanerchor under the direction of Hans-Joachim Rotzsch at the 15th Workers' Festival in Erfurt (1974)

Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (born April 25, 1929 in Leipzig ; † September 25, 2013 there ) was a German singer ( tenor ), choir director and university teacher . From 1972 to 1991 he was Thomas Cantor .

Life

Grave site in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Rotzsch attended the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt from 1940 to 1945, of which Kurt Thomas was the artistic director . After an apprenticeship, he began studying church music at the Leipzig University of Music in 1949 , one of his organ teachers here was Günther Ramin . Privately he took singing lessons from Fritz Polster .

Rotzsch first became known as an oratorio oratorio , became a member of the Leipzig Bach Soloists and stepped in briefly as a tenor soloist on a concert tour of the Leipzig Thomanerchor in Basel in 1954. From then on he appeared regularly with the St. Thomas Choir and soon took over its vocal training. In 1963 he became director of the Leipzig University Choir, which he led until 1973. In 1972 he succeeded Erhard Mauersberger on the post of Thomaskantor. A few weeks earlier he was awarded the title of professor . From 1974 to 1979 Rotzsch was Leipziger CDU - a city councilor .

Rotzsch resigned from the office of Thomaskantor in 1991 in order to anticipate his dismissal by the city of Leipzig because of his IM work for the Ministry for State Security since 1973. His resignation was accompanied by numerous protests from Leipzig citizens, active and former Thomaners as well as the parents of Thomaners, who vehemently stood up for him. His successor was Georg Christoph Biller .

Rotzsch founded the Leipzig Cultural Foundation in 1990 . In October 1992 Rotzsch was appointed full guest professor for Protestant church music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he worked until 2000.

Awards

Sound carrier (selection)

As a singer

As a conductor

literature

  • Kurt Meyer: The fifteenth after Bach. Thomas Cantor Hans Joachim Rotzsch . Schkeuditzer Buchverlag, Schkeuditz 2002, ISBN 3-9806705-4-6 .
  • Werner Gosch: Hans-Joachim Rotzsch. Portrayed for you , Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-370-00296-5

Web links

Commons : Hans-Joachim Rotzsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ex-Thomaskantor Hans-Joachim Rotzsch died at the age of 84 ( memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , accessed on September 25, 2013
  2. Günther Gießler: We Salzburgers are not giving back our Thomaskantor. Fired seven years ago in Leipzig for work in the Stasi - celebrated at the Mozarteum in Austria. Interview with Hans-Joachim Rotzsch. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. June 4, 1998, archived from the original on April 19, 2010 .;