Jan Reichow

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Jan Reichow (born December 6, 1940 in Greifswald ) is a German violinist and music editor . His work focuses on early music and the musical cultures of Asia and Africa .

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Jan Reichow was born as the son of Kapellmeister and pianist Artur Reichow and his wife Gertrud, née. Arnhölter was born in Greifswald. After the family moved to the western part of Germany at the end of the Second World War , he grew up in Lohe near Bad Oeynhausen .

From 1960 to 1970 he studied violin , school music , German literature , musicology , philosophy and ethnology in Berlin and Cologne . In 1971 he did his doctorate at the University of Cologne on the subject of "The unfolding of a melody model in the Sikāh genus".

From 1965 on, Reichow played as a violinist in chamber music ensembles with a focus on historically oriented performance practice , such as the Collegium Musicum of West German Broadcasting Corporation WDR, Collegium Aureum , La Petite Bande and Musica Antiqua Cologne .

After previously working as a freelancer for WDR Cologne, he was a full-time music editor at WDR from 1976 until his retirement in 2005. As such, he made numerous recording trips to the Orient , Asia and Africa and organized concerts and festivals with non-European music. In addition to the WDR world music festivals, this also included regular broadcasts on world music. He was also the editor and author of the accompanying texts for CDs, such as the recordings of the Abegg Trio , the organ works by Max Reger with Christoph Bossert , on Indian music , Afghan music and Arabic music . The two main focuses of his numerous publications are in the area of ​​"early music" in Europe as well as traditional and current forms of world music . Since his retirement he has been working in the music sector for various German broadcasters and runs a blog on which his texts and broadcasts are also archived.

Reichow is a member of the jury for the Record Critics' Award for Category 20: Traditional Ethnic Music .

Awards

  • 1996 Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his exceptional contribution to international understanding and cultural exchange.
  • 2005 Award of the German World Music Prize " Ehren-Ruth ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Homepage Jan Reichow . Retrieved January 26, 2019
  2. ↑ Jan Reichow: The development of a melody model in the genus Sikāh. Volume 61 of the Cologne Contributions to Music Research . Bosse-Verlag, Regensburg 1971.
  3. ↑ a b Michael Kleiff on Jan Reichow in Folker June 2015. Retrieved on January 26, 2019
  4. ↑ text and send Archive January Reichow . Retrieved January 26, 2019
  5. ^ Jury of the record review . Retrieved January 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Reichow, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and music editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald