Andreas Kröper
Andreas Kröper (* 1966 in Karlsruhe ) is a German musicologist , director , conductor and flautist .
Life
In 1989, Kröper was visiting lecturer at Pennsylvania State University . In 1990 he founded the Academy for Early Music at Masaryk University in Brno , an institute for early music performance practice, which he headed until 2004; in 2005 he went to Athens. 2001–2007 he was director and conductor of the opera festival Ope (r) n Air Waldbühne in Arosa (Switzerland), since 2008 he has been artistic director of the Zurich Opera Association. Kröper published 25 CD recordings with music from the baroque, classical and modern times a. a. with Iva Bittová .
In addition, Kröper works as a Mozart researcher. In 1991 he provided evidence that Mozart's violin sonatas KV 301–306 were originally designed for flute. In 1993 he occupied himself with the continuo in Mozart's Mannheim flute quartets and in 2001 he found out that Sebastiani's libretto was a direct model for Mozart's Zaide . Furthermore, in 2003 he carried out investigations into the content of the Magic Flute and in 2005 gained new insights into the importance of Mozart's opera La finta giardiniera (KV 196).
Kröper's directorial work is characterized by a vehement rejection of the peep show stage as well as research on chironomy and stage gestures of the 18th century.
In 1994 he bought the "Hyperion" farm in Černotín , where the jazz festival "Music on the farm" was organized from 1999-2003 and an open-air museum was built. From 1992–2000 Andreas Kröper was director of the Haydn Festival in Dolní Lukavice , Czech Republic.
Since 1999, Kröper has also worked as a writer who writes in German and Czech. In 2001 he published his "Dopisy z noveho sveta" (Letters from the New World) in Prague. Andreas Kröper lives in Switzerland and in a remote forest house in the Czech Republic.
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| SURNAME | Kröper, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |