Horst Sellentin
# Horst Sellentin

Horst Sellentin (14 September 1922 – 10 May 1973) was a German baritone and a choral conductor.

Born in Berlin, Sellentin studied instrumental music, voice and conducting. He worked at the Theater Lübeck from 1946 to 1948. From 1948 he was a singer of the NDR Chor in Hamburg who also appeared as a soloist. In 1960, he co-founded with Max Thurn the boys' choir of the NDR, called Knabenchor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks [de] in Hamburg and was its director. When the choir became part of the new church St. Nikolai (Hamburg) [de], the name was changed to Hamburger Knabenchor St. Nikolai. Sellentin was its conductor until 1971.

## Selected recordings

* Unser Sandmännchen - Auf ins Traumland! Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Germany), Munich 2008
* Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin. Line Music, Hamburg 2005
* Verdi: Höhepunkte aus La Traviata. Karussell, Hamburg; Polygram-Musik-Vertrieb, Hamburg [1986]
* Die allerschönsten Kinderlieder. Miller International, Quickborn 1975 and 1979
