Jürgen Oberschelp

Jürgen Oberschelp (born 12 July 1938) is a German conductor, choir director.

Life[]

Oberschelp was born in Bielefeld.^[1] After studying musicology, geography and music education in Cologne, Mainz and Vienna, Oberschelp received his doctorate in 1972 in Cologne with the dissertation Das öffentliche Musikleben der Stadt Bielefeld im 19. Jahrhundert.^[2] He taught music and geography at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Bielefeld from 1971 to 2002 and has since retired as Oberstudienrat.

In the 1960s, he took over the  [de], which his father Friedrich Oberschelp (1895–1986) founded in 1932 and had been its director until then. With this children's choir, he organised many concerts and made many concert trips abroad.

Publications[]

• Das öffentliche Musikleben der Stadt Bielefeld im 19. Jahrhundert. Bosse, Regensburg 1972 (zugleich: Köln, Univ., Philos. Fak., Diss. 1972); ISBN 3-7649-2575-2
• Das Verschwinden der Kunst in der "Kunst des Zitats". Versuch über Popästhetik in den 80er Jahren. Univ., Diss., Bielefeld 1991

Recordings[]

As choral conductor with the Bielefelder Kinderchor:

• Lieder zur Winter- und Weihnachtszeit. Ariola-Eurodisc, Gütersloh / Munich 1980
• Jetzt kommen die lustigen Tage. Ariola-Eurodisc, Gütersloh / Munich 1980
• Die schönsten europäischen Volkslieder. Ariola-Eurodisc, Gütersloh / Munich 1981
• Das grosse Jubiläumskonzert. 50 Jahre Bielefelder Kinderchor. Ariola-Eurodisc, Gütersloh / Munich 1982
• 75 Jahre Bielefelder Kinderchor

References[]

External links[]

• Literature by and about Jürgen Oberschelp in the German National Library catalogue
• Jürgen Oberschelp discography at Discogs