Jan Corazolla

Jan Corazolla (born September 27, 1931 in Berlin ; † October 12, 1998 in Cologne ) was a German conductor and cellist .

He was born as the third child of the singer Margarete Corazolla (1902-2001). He came from a family of musicians. His father Paul Graener was a composer, his older brother Paul Corazolla was a painter living in Berlin with a focus on glass painting / leaded glass windows .

After training as a cellist, a. a. with Paul Grümmer and Pablo Casals , Jan Corazolla studied cello and chamber music in Freiburg im Breisgau . While still a student he founded the Schlupp Quartet , which was dissolved after seven years (due to the early death of the first violinist and namesake at the age of 28). During their studies, the Schlupp Quartet completed master classes with Sándor Végh and numerous chamber concerts. After the dissolution of the string quartet, Jan Corazolla studied conducting, a. a. with master classes and studies with Herbert von Karajan .

Jan Corazolla was a co-founder of the Siegerland Orchestra , to which he remained loyal until 1972. He then moved to the Rheinisches Kammerorchester Köln (RKO) , first as artistic director and then as conductor . In addition to the lively concert activity in Cologne, the orchestra has repeatedly completed very successful concert tours in France , Belgium , the Netherlands , Italy and many other countries and performed with well-known soloists ( Arthur Grumiaux , Henryk Szeryng , Paul Tortelier and many others ).

Corazolla was intensively involved as a mediator and lecturer on various chamber music courses and with various amateur orchestras , e. B. the Klettenberger Kammerorchester, the Orchestergesellschaft Köln and other orchestras.

In 1998 he died suddenly after a short, severe illness at the age of 67 in Cologne.

Web link s

• Works by and about Jan Corazolla in the catalog of the German National Library
• January Corazolla at Discogs (English)