Klaus Fischer-Dieskau
Klaus Fischer-Dieskau (Berlin, 2 January 1921 – 19 December 1994) was a German church musician and director of the 1953-1989.[1] He was the older brother of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.[2]
The Hugo-Distler Chor Berlin was founded by Klaus Fischer-Dieskau in 1953 and is to be distinguished from the Hugo Distler-Chor Wien, directed by Alois Glassner, and Hugo Distler-Chor Hannover founded by Müller-Scheffsky (1952). He also worked as a recordings producer for Deutsche Grammophon in Berlin.
Discography[]
- Schutz St Matthew Passion DG Archiv 1961
References[]
- ^ Wer ist Wer? das deutsche Who's who: Bundesrepublik Deutschland und West-Berlin 1977
- ^ Hans Adolf Neunzig Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: a biography 1998 "When in 1989 Klaus Fischer-Dieskau took leave of the Hugo Distler choir, which he had founded and had directed for decades, the Berlin Tagesspiegel wrote of "a piece of Berlin church music history."
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- 1921 births
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- Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin