Martin Gründler (music teacher)

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Martin Gründler (born December 4, 1918 in Oberroßbach ; † October 20, 2004 ) was a German singing teacher and university teacher.

Life

Gründler studied church music and singing and worked as a concert singer from 1941, performing in Germany and abroad, including in the United States. In 1953 he married Charlott-Luise Dettmar. The marriage had four children.

From 1957 he was a professor of opera singing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . His students included the singers Aldo Baldin , Christian Brüggemann , Christian Elsner , Christof Fischesser , Carl-Christof Gebhardt , Manfred Hofmann , Johannes M. Kösters , Johannes Martin Kränzle , Friedemann Kunder , Werner Volker Meyer , Jo Pohlheim , Christoph Prégardien , Peter Schüler , Daniel Sans , Wolfgang Schmidt , Ernst Gerold Schramm , Robert Schunk , Ralf Simon , Alexander Spemann and James Tolksdorf . The choir directors Mathias Breitschaft and Ronald Pelger were also among his students.

Gründler was awarded honorary senator status at his university in 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gründler, Martin. In: Who is who. The German Who's Who . XXXVIII. Edition 1999/2000. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1999, ISBN 3-7950-2026-3 , p. 479
  2. ↑ hfmdk-frankfurt.info ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfmdk-frankfurt.info
  3. ↑ Spelling Charlott-Luise Dettmar according to Who is who (based on information provided by those described, but on the other hand, like any publication, can contain printing errors). In the matriculation of the grammar school Philippinum zu Weilburg (p. 345) it is listed as Dettmar, Charlotte Luise ( excerpt from Google Books )
  4. ↑ Information about the students taken from: Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon ; Biographies in concert programs and on opera house websites; personal websites of the artists mentioned
  5. ↑ A great singing teacher. A recital with celebrities in honor of Martin Gründler. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 12, 2003, No. 159, p. 62 (start of article online )
personal data
SURNAME Gründler, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singing teacher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberroßbach
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 2004