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David Erler
David Erler (born 1981) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music.
Career.
Erler was born in Auerbach. He attended the musical gymnasium "Clara-Wieck-Gymnasium" in Zwickau, and studied at the Musikhochschule Leipzig with Maria Jonas and Marek Rzepka, on a scholarship of the Hanns Seidel Foundation. He took masterclasses with Andreas Scholl, Marius van Altena and The King’s Singers. He graduated in 2006.
In the
vocal part in the recitative; excessive homophony in the choruses; two obbligato instruments and over-frequent instrumental episodes in the arias, with the solo voice dominating and the instruments consigned to an imitative decorative role), as well as the absence of characteristic elements (such as permutation fugues in choruses; balanced concertato alternation between solo voices and instruments in arias; ostinato-type forms in arias and ritornellos).
According to David Erler, writing in the program notes of a 2015 concert, the cantata has been widely attributed