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Franz Kelch
Franz Kelch (1 November 19155 June 2013) was a German bass-baritone lied and oratorio singer. His discography includes works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, George Frideric Handel, and Claudio Monteverdi.
Biography.
Franz Kelch was born in Bayreuth. He started voice training in difficult times in 1937 with Henriette Klink in Nürnberg after mandatory military service. He had to interrupt his studies with the outbreak of World War II. After he returned from a prisoner-of-war-camp,
Alumni Faculty.
Faculty members include those of the former conservatory and Musikhochschule.
- Julius Berger (born 1954), chamber music and cello
- Frieder Bernius (born 1947), voice and oratorio
- Lorenzo Ghielmi (born 1959), organ literature and organ playing
- Franz Kelch (1915–2013), voice
- Emmy Lisken (born 1923), voice
- Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (1874–1953), director of the conservatory
- Rudi Spring (born 1962), correpetition and Lied
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