Wolfram Wehnert

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Wolfram Wehnert (born February 14, 1941 ) is a German choir director and conductor .

Life

Wolfram Wehnert was the artistic director of the Marburg Bach Choir from 1970 to 2001 . He studied school music and conducting in Frankfurt (in Helmuth Rilling's choir conducting class ). He then worked in Stuttgart , Frankfurt and Mainz as a choir master and conductor as well as a lecturer in conducting until he took over a professorship for choir and ensemble management at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in 1982 . Since 1992 he has also directed the college's chamber choir. In addition to his university activities, Wehnert is also the director of music weeks, music festivals, conducting and interpretation courses in Germany, France and the United States. He is also a guest conductor and juror at choir competitions in Germany and abroad. In addition, he played a major role in the rediscovery of the church music work of Jan Dismas Zelenka .

For his services as an artist and teacher, Wolfram Wehnert was honored by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Art in 1999 with a guest of honor at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo in Rome .

Wolfram Wehnert now lives in Bietigheim-Bissingen .

Sound carrier

  • The sounds are pulling ... : European Romantic Choral Songs (CD musicaphon M 56838)
  • Singing in the Green : Romances and Ballads of Romanticism (CD musicaphon M 56804)
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka : Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis, A minor (CD Thorofon CTH 2265)
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Votiva, E minor (CD Thorofon CTH 2172)
  • Secular romantic choral music (CD musicaphon LC 0522)
  • Romantic choral music (CD Thorofon CTH 2054)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann: The Death of Jesus Passion Oratorio (CD Da Camera DaCa 77 051)
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Dei Patris and Responsories
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka: Psalms and Magnificat
  • F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Choralkantaten
  • GF Handel: Israel in Egypt
  • Bach family motets

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