Karl Rathgeber

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Karl Rathgeber (2009)

Karl Rathgeber (born July 28, 1950 in Offenbach am Main ) is a German church musician , choir director and university teacher .

biography

Rathgeber passed the Abitur at the Leibniz School in Offenbach and studied at the Frankfurt Music Academy . After the exams in school music, church music (A) and conducting, among others with Helmuth Rilling and Jiří Stárek , masterclasses with Martin Behrmann , Volker Hempfling and Eric Ericson followed .

His professional positions took him as dean church musician to Dreieich near Frankfurt am Main to the Burgkirche Dreieichenhain , as city music school director to Lüneburg , as a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Bremen and as music director at the Evangelical monastery in Tübingen . In 1994 he went to the then specialist academy for Protestant church music in Bayreuth as director .

From August 2000 to September 2013, until his retirement, he was Professor of Conducting at the newly founded University for Protestant Church Music in Bayreuth . , He served as founding rector the structure of the university and was to 2011 repeatedly re-elected Rector . At the university he led the two university choirs and was artistic director of the regerchor Braunschweig from 1999 to May 2018 . Since October 2018 he has been leading the Cappella Nova choir in Bad Mergentheim .

Awards

Private

Karl Rathgeber has lived in Heusenstamm since 2013 . He has been married since 1977 and has three sons, all three are qualified opera and concert singers: Christian Rathgeber, Tobias Rathgeber, Felix Rathgeber

Publications

Sound carrier

  • Heinrich Schütz : St. John Passion - The 116th Psalm “That is dear to me”. Siegfried Reda : Choral concert "O sadness, o heartache". Concertino Lüneburg, choir of the University for Protestant Church Music Bayreuth, Bernhard Schneider (tenor), Thomas Rothert (organ), conductor: Karl Rathgeber. CD ROP6011. 2007.
  • Giacomo Puccini : Messa di Gloria. Giuseppe Verdi : Quattro Pezzi Sacri. Prague Philharmonic KSO, choirs of the Universities of Church Music Bayreuth and Regensburg (rehearsed by Kunibert Schäfer ), Bernhard Schneider, Christian Schmidt-Timmermann, conductor: Karl Rathgeber. CD ROP6018. 2008.

Music

  • Thomas Albus and Karl Rathgeber (eds.): Bayreuther Chorbuch. Music for church services for the community, choir and organ to make music together: 13 small cantatas / choral pieces by contemporary composers. (Thomas Albus, Helmut Barbe , Hans Georg Bertram , Helmut Bieler , Jürgen Blume , Volker Bräutigam , Matthias Drude , Hans Georg Pflüger , Karl Rathgeber and Burghard Schloemann .) Strube Verlag, VS 1749.
  • God is love. Motet for 4-6 voices mixed choir. Merseburger Verlag, EM 246.
  • Two small chorale preludes with intonation for organ. About the song melodies "Hosanna, David's son" and "Sing now everyone, sing with us". In: Praise God, that is our office. Vol. 1, Merseburger Verlag, EM 1844.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. regerchor braunschweig
  2. https://www.chorcappellanova.de
  3. https://www.christian-rathgeber.de
  4. https://www.theater-koblenz.de
  5. https://www.felixrathgeber.de