Hans-Joachim Rotzsch
- Choral conductor
- Thomaskantor
- Academic teacher
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.[1] 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, learning organ with Günther Ramin.[2]
Rotzsch became known as an oratorio tenor. In 1972 he was appointed professor at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Hochschule. From 1972 until 1991 he was the Thomaskantor, as the 15th successor of Bach in this position.[2] He was a Stasi informer from 1973 onward.[3]
In 1992 he became a guest professor for Protestant church music at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, where he taught until 2000.
Literature
- Kurt Meyer: Der Fünfzehnte nach Bach. Thomaskantor Hans Joachim Rotzsch; Schkeuditzer Buchverlag, 2002; ISBN 3-9806705-4-6
Recordings
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 1 – Cantatas II – Boy soprano, Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (tenor), Hans Hauptmann, Thomanerchor, Gewandhausorchester, conductor Günther Ramin, Leipzig Classics
- Bach: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, Arleen Augér, Peter Schreier, Siegfried Lorenz, Thomanerchor Leipzig, Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum, 1981–83
- Bach: Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret, BWV 31 / Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, Helga Termer, Heidi Rieß, Eberhard Büchner, Siegfried Lorenz, Hermann Christian Polster, Thomanerchor, Gewandhausorchester
References
- ^ "Ex-Thomaskantor Hans-Joachim Rotzsch ist 84-jährig gestorben – Kultur News – Kultur – LVZ-Online". Lvz-online.de. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
- ^ a b Hans-Joachim Rotzsch on the bach-cantatas website
- ^ Leipziger Volkszeitung: "Wir Salzburger geben unseren Thomaskantor nicht wieder her" In Leipzig wegen Stasi-Tätigkeit vor sieben Jahren gefeuert – in Österreich am Mozarteum gefeiert; Interview mit Hans-Joachim Rotzsch; Ausgabe vom 4. Juni 1998
External links
- Wir Salzburger geben unseren Thomaskantor nicht wieder her. interview in the Leipziger Volkszeitung, 4 June 1998 (in German)
- Ein Bastler – wie einst Bach "Leipzigs Thomaskantor Rotzsch dirigiert Paulus in Hamburg", Hamburger Abendblatt, 18 February 1988 (in German)
- Entries for Hans-Joachim Rotzsch on WorldCat
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Thomaskantors of the Thomanerchor
- Georg Rhau (1518–1520)
- Johannes Galliculus (1520–1525)
- Valerian Hüffeler (1526–1530)
- Johannes Hermann (1531–1536)
- Wolfgang Jünger (1536–1539)
- Johannes Bruckner (1539–1540)
- Ulrich Lange (1540–1549)
- Wolfgang Figulus (1549–1551)
- Melchior Heger (1553–1564)
- Valentin Otto (1564–1594)
- Sethus Calvisius (1594–1615)
- Johann Hermann Schein (1615–1630)
- Tobias Michael (1631–1657)
- Sebastian Knüpfer (1657–1676)
- Johann Schelle (1677–1701)
- Johann Kuhnau (1701–1722)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1723–1750)
- Johann Gottlob Harrer (1750–1755)
- Johann Friedrich Doles (1756–1789)
- Johann Adam Hiller (1789–1801)
- August Eberhard Müller (1801–1810)
- Johann Gottfried Schicht (1810–1823)
- Christian Theodor Weinlig (1823–1842)
- Moritz Hauptmann (1842–1868)
- Ernst Friedrich Richter (1868–1879)
- Wilhelm Rust (1880–1892)
- Gustav Schreck (1893–1918)
- Karl Straube (1918–1939)
- Günther Ramin (1939–1956)
- Kurt Thomas (1957–1960)
- Erhard Mauersberger (1961–1972)
- Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (1972–1991)
- Georg Christoph Biller (1992–2015)
- Gotthold Schwarz (2016–2021)
- Andreas Reize (since 2021)
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