Stefan Altner

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Stefan Altner (November 18, 2018, Panitzsch Church )

Stefan Altner (* 1956 in Brandis ) is a German musician, musicologist and manager.

Life

Stefan Altner was a member of the St. Thomas Choir from 1966 to 1975 and attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . Then he studied church music , d. H. Organ Thomas organist Hannes Kaestner , piano with Herbert Sahling and basso continuo and harpsichord at Walter Heinz Bernstein , at the Academy of Music "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig and was after the diploma church music A as a church musician in Zossen operates.

After a successful application to leave the GDR permanently , he moved to Munich in 1984 . Altner then worked in the editing department at Bärenreiter-Verlag . From 1986 to 1993 he was managing director of the Munich Chamber Orchestra and harpsichordist of the baroque soloists of the Munich Philharmonic . From 1993 to 2019 he was the managing director of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig.

In 2005 he was awarded a PhD as a doctoral candidate at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy". phil. PhD. "Doctoral advisor" was Prof. Dr. Johannes Forner Altner is chairman of the St. Thomas Choir Foundation and co-initiator of the Leipzig Forum Thomanum educational campus . He is also a member of the editorial board of Leipziger Blätter .

Works

  • T homanerchor and Thomaskirche: History and the present in pictures , Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 1998.
  • The Thomaskantorat in the 19th century: Applicants and candidates for the Leipzig Thomaskantorat from 1842 to 1918 , source studies on the development of the Thomaskantorat and the St. Thomas Choir from the discontinuation of the public singing in 1837 to the first trip abroad in 1920, Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2006.
  • 800 years of Thomana , Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012 (Ed. With Martin Petzoldt ).
  • The Thomanerchor Leipzig in the earliest film documents: between tradition and modernity , Edition Thomanerchor 2, Kamprad, Altenburg 2013 (Ed. With Günter Atteln and Hagen Kunze ).

Web links

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  1. ↑ Peter Korfmacher: Thomaner: Managing Director Stefan Altner adopted early retirement after 25 years - he was Thomaner himself for nine years, later he became the first managing director in the 800-year history of the Leipzig St. Thomas Choir for 25 years. Now Stefan Altner, 63, has taken early retirement. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, May 6, 2019. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Altner / Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 years of Thomana, Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, p. 470.
  3. ↑ Contact , www.stiftung-thomanerchor.de, accessed on November 10, 2016.
  4. ^ Arnold Bartetzky : Out of the old box, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 14, 2009, No. 111, p. 31.
  5. ↑ Editing / design / production / advertising management , www.kulturstiftung-leipzig.de, November 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Altner, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, musicologist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandis