Henner Leyhe

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Henner Leyhe (born August 29, 1947 in Lübeck ; † November 23, 2017 there ) was a German singer with a tenor voice and a university lecturer .

Life

Henner Leyhe sang in the Lübeck Knabenkantorei as a boy . After graduating from the Johanneum zu Lübeck , he first studied Romance studies and history at the University of Hamburg and then began studying singing at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama . There he was a student of Jakob Stämpfli and Naan Pöld . In 1980 he passed his artistic school leaving examination with distinction. Master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Ernst Haefliger and Peter Schreier followed .

From 1980 to 1986 Leyhe worked as a lyric tenor at the Lübeck Theater. He also appeared as a concert and oratorio singer, especially in the great song cycles by Franz Schubert and as an evangelist in the passions of Johann Sebastian Bach .

In 1984 he received his first teaching position at the Musikhochschule Lübeck , from 1986 to 1993 he worked as a singing teacher at the University of Kiel . From 1994 to 2014 he was professor of singing at the Cologne University of Music , where he headed the singing department as dean for 15 years.

Leyhe lived in Cologne and Lübeck.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data after the obituary notice in the Lübecker Nachrichten of November 26, 2017, accessed on November 26, 2017
  2. ^ Obituary , Lübecker Nachrichten of November 25, 2017, accessed on November 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Leyhe, Henner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (tenor) and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 2017
Place of death Lübeck