Franz Crass [SEP] voice type
Franz Crass
Franz Crass (9 March 192823 June 2012) was a German bass singer.
A native of Wipperfürth, Rhine Province, Crass studied with Gerda Heuer in Wiesbaden and with Professor Clemens Glettenberg at the Hochschule für Musik in Köln. He won numerous competitions throughout Germany in the 1950s. In 1954, he made his debut at the municipal theater in Krefeld; from 1956 he sang at the Landestheater Hannover.
Crass established a reputation as a Wagnerian early in his career, appearing at the Bayreuth Festival between 1954
Ingeborg Ruß
Ingeborg Ruß was a German contralto, focused on concert singing, and an academic voice teacher.
She record compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, including Bach cantatas such as "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied", BWV 190, with the Windsbacher Knabenchor conducted by Hans Thamm, alongside Teresa Żylis-Gara, Peter Schreier and Franz Crass. In 1967, she recorded his short masses with the Gächinger Kantorei and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart conducted by Helmuth Rilling, alongside Elisabeth Speiser, John van Kesteren, Gerhard