Ingeborg Reichelt (11 May 1928 – 28 June 2022) was a German soprano singer known for her interpretation of works by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Ingeborg Reichelt | |
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| Born | 11 May 1928 |
| Died | 27 June 2022 (aged 94) |
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| Organization | Robert Schumann Hochschule |
Biography edit
Reichelt was born in Frankfurt an der Oder studied in Dresden and at the Musikakademie in Hamburg (singing, dancing and acting). She also studied physiology. She graduated as a music teacher in 1950 and passed her concert exam as a pupil of Henny Wolff in 1953.[1]
Reichelt focused on singing oratorios and Lieder. She recorded Bach cantatas with conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Karl Ristenpart and Kurt Thomas. She was a frequent soloist for the cycle of Bach's cantatas recorded with Fritz Werner conducting the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn and the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, including Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 with Barbara Scherler and Bruce Abel, a cantata that Bach had written for the first Sunday after Trinity of 1726.[2][3] In 1957 she recorded Bach's Mass in B minor with Werner and his choir, Helmut Krebs and Franz Kelch.[4]
Her repertoire has also included works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg and Hans Werner Henze.[1] She performed with the Beethovenchor Ludwigshafen Bach's Christmas Oratorio in 1957, and Ein deutsches Requiem of Brahms, conducted by Horst Stein in 1967.[5] With the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor, she performed in Handel's Messiah in 1957 and Bach's Christmas Oratorio in 1967.[6] With the Bonner Bach-Gemeinschaft she appeared in Hermann Suter's Le Laudi in 1967 and in Antonín Dvořák's Requiem in 1975.[7] She recorded songs of Igor Stravinsky, Pastorale for soprano, oboe, English horn, clarinet and bassoon, and his orchestration of Two Sacred Songs by Hugo Wolf.[8]
In 1975 she was appointed professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.[1] Her students have included Mechthild Georg and Andreas Schmidt.
She wrote a book Die Balance im Gesang (Balance in Singing), published by Ricordi in 2004.[9]
From 1959 until his death in 2010, Reichelt was married to the lawyer and former World War II Luftwaffe pilot Hajo Herrmann.[10][11]
She died on 27 June 2022, at the age of 94.[12]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Ingeborg Reichelt (Soprano)". bach-cantatas.com. June 2001. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ "Cantata BWV 39 Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot". Bach Cantatas Website. May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ "Bach Fritz Werner Cantatas Vol.1". musicweb-international.com. November 2004. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ "Bach Fritz Werner". musicweb-international.com. April 2005. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ "Alle Konzerte seit 1924" (PDF) (in German). beethovenchor-lu.de. 2010. pp. 17, 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ "Heinrich - Schütz - Chor Heilbronn Konzertchronik" (in German). heinrich-schuetz-chor.de. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-03-11. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ "Konzertliste der Bonner Bach-Gemeinschaft" (PDF) (in German). bach-chor-bonn.de. 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ "Stravinsky Choral and Chamber Works". gramophone.net. February 1982. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ "Die Balance im Gesang.html" (in German). Weltbild.de. May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ "Obituary: Hans-Joachim Herrmann". The Telegraph. 2010-11-24.
- ^ "In der Kirche von Nienstedten getraut". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). 1959-09-26. Archived from the original on 2012-07-30.
- ^ "Abschied von Prof. Ingeborg Reichelt" (Press release) (in German). Robert Schumann Hochschule. 29 June 2022.