Hans-Joachim Rotzsch [SEP] place of death
Hans-Joachim Rotzsch
Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (25 April 1929 – 25 September 2013) was a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor from 1972 until 1991 as the fifteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also a tenor and an academic teacher.
Biography.
Hans-Joachim Rotzsch was born in Leipzig and educated from 1940 to 1945 at the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt, directed by Kurt Thomas. In 1949 he began to study church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig
, Julia Hamari, Kurt Equiluz, Hermann Prey, Philips 1971
- "Bach Made in Germany Vol. 4 – Cantatas V", Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, Thomanerchor, Gewandhausorchester, Regina Werner, Heidi Rieß, Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, Siegfried Lorenz, Eterna 1974
- "J. S. Bach: Das Kantatenwerk – Sacred Cantatas Vol. 9", Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tölzer Knabenchor, Concentus Musicus Wien, soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor, Kurt Equiluz, Robert Holl, Teldec 1995
- "J. S. Bach: