56 Notable alumni of
Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne
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The Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne is 992nd in the world, 351st in Europe, and 43rd in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 56 notable alumni from the Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne
- Studied in 1947-1951
- Occupations
- music educatorcomposeruniversity teachermusicologistmusician
- Biography
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Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, having been called the "father of electronic music", for introducing controlled chance (aleatory techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.
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Engelbert Humperdinck
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- librettistmusic criticmusicologistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer. He is known widely for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893).
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Christoph Eschenbach
- Occupations
- pianistconductor
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Christoph Eschenbach is a German pianist and conductor. Over the past decades, he has held positions as music directors at 13 orchestras worldwide. In 2014, he was awarded a Grammy Award for an album with works by Paul Hindemith and received the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2015 for his contributions to music.
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Olga Scheps
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Olga Scheps is a German pianist, who currently resides in Cologne, Germany.
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Sayaka Shoji
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- violinistmusician
- Biography
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Sayaka Shoji is a Japanese classical violinist. She was the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999.
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Péter Eötvös
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne
- Studied in 1966-1968
- Occupations
- librettistuniversity teacherpianistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Péter Eötvös was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
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Hans Knappertsbusch
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne
- Studied in 1908-1910
- Occupations
- university teacherconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Hans Knappertsbusch was a German conductor, best known for his performances of the music of Wagner, Bruckner and Richard Strauss.
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Willem Mengelberg
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- university teacherconductorcomposer
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Joseph Wilhelm Mengelberg was a Dutch conductor, famous for his performances of Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler and Strauss with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest symphonic conductors of the 20th century.
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Adolf Busch
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- concertmastermusic educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer.
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Elly Ney
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne
- Studied in 1892-1900
- Occupations
- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Elly Ney was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany.
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Ji-In Cho
- Occupations
- pianistsingercomposer
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Ji-In Cho is a German heavy metal singer of Korean descent. She has been the lead vocalist of the symphonic metal band Krypteria since December 2004 until their hiatus after her pregnancy. Following this, she became the lead vocalist of And Then She Came, a band consisting of most of the former members of Krypteria.
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Markus Stockhausen
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- bandleadercomposerrecording artistrecord producerjazz musician
- Biography
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Markus Stockhausen is a German trumpeter and composer. His recordings and performances have typically alternated between jazz and chamber or opera music, the latter often in collaboration with his father, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.
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Reinhard Goebel
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- violinistmusicologistconductor
- Biography
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Reinhard Goebel is a German conductor and violinist specialising in early music on authentic instruments and professor for historical performance at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He founded the ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln in 1973. Since 2018, he has led the Berlin Baroque Soloists.
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Soyoung Yoon
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Soyoung Yoon is a South Korean violinist. She was born in Seoul, South Korea. She started playing the violin at the age of five. She plays on a 1773 ex-Bückeburg J.B. Guadagnini violin.
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Volker David Kirchner
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Volker David Kirchner was a German composer and violist. After studies of violin and composition at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory, the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, he worked for decades as a violist in the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt. He was simultaneously the violist in the Kehr Trio founded by his violin teacher Günter Kehr, and a composer of incidental music at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.
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Markus Stenz
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Markus Stenz is a German conductor. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Volker Wangenhein and at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.
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Peter Dijkstra
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Peter Dijkstra is a Dutch conductor, especially of choirs and vocal ensembles.
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Mesías Maiguashca
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- composeruniversity teacher
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Mesías Maiguashca is an Ecuadorian composer and an advocate of Neue Musik (New Music), especially electroacoustic music.
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Frederick Stock
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- composerfiddlerviolistconductor
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Frederick Stock was a German conductor and composer, most famous for his 37-year tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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Ann-Helena Schlüter
- Occupations
- artistorganistmusic teacherwritercomposer
- Biography
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Ann-Helena Schlüter is a German-born Swedish pianist, organist, composer and poet.
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Alfredo Perl Schmidt
- Occupations
- conductorpianist
- Biography
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Alfredo Perl is a Chilean-German classical pianist and conductor, best known for his recitals of Beethoven's sonatas.
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Graham Waterhouse
- Occupations
- composercellistorganistmusician
- Biography
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Graham Waterhouse is an English composer and cellist who specializes in chamber music. He has composed a cello concerto, Three Pieces for Solo Cello and Variations for Cello Solo for his own instrument, and string quartets and compositions that juxtapose a quartet with a solo instrument, including Piccolo Quintet, Bassoon Quintet and the piano quintet Rhapsodie Macabre. He has set poetry for speaking voice and cello, such as Der Handschuh, and has written song cycles. His compositions reflect the individual capacity and character of players and instruments, from the piccolo to the contrabassoon.
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Steffen Schleiermacher
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Steffen Schleiermacher is a German composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Franz-Paul Decker
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Franz-Paul Decker was a German-born conductor.
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Sonia Theodoridou
- Occupations
- singermusician
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Sonia Theodoridou is a soprano from Veria, Greece who has performed prestigious operatic roles internationally.
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Marie Luise Neunecker
- Occupations
- horn playeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Marie Luise Neunecker is a German horn player and professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".
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Zoran Dukić
- Occupations
- classical guitarist
- Biography
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Zoran Dukić is a Croatian classical guitarist. Between 1990 and 1997, Dukić won more competitions than any other guitarist had at the time.
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Axel Dörner
- Occupations
- musiciantrumpetercomposerrecording artistjazz trumpeter
- Biography
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Axel Dörner is a German trumpeter, pianist, and composer.
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Johannes Fritsch
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- music publicistuniversity teacherviolistcomposermusic educator
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Johannes Georg Fritsch was a German composer.
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Eva Weissweiler
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Eva-Ruth Weissweiler is a German writer, musicologist and non fiction writer.
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Jürg Baur
- Occupations
- university teachermusic educatorcomposer
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Jürg Baur was a German composer whose works include Incontri and Mutazioni. Baur studied at the Cologne University of Music and taught there in his later years. Baur was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.
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Helga Schauerte-Maubouet
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- music publisherconcert artistorganistmusicologist
- Biography
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Helga Schauerte-Maubouet is a German-French organist, musicologist, writer, music editor and academic teacher. Based at the Christuskirche, Paris, she has recorded the complete organ works of Jehan Alain, Dietrich Buxtehude, and J. S. Bach, as well as portraits of composers Buttstett, Corrette, Reger, Boëllmann, Dubois and Langlais. She has worked as a concert organist in Europe and throughout the US. She has taught at the Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris.
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Clemens Ganz
- Occupations
- church musicianorganistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Clemens Ganz was a German organist.
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Asier Polo
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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Asier Polo is a Spanish cellist.
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Vivian Dunn
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductorviolinist
- Biography
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Francis Vivian Dunn KCVO OBE FRSA was a British conductor who was Director of Music of the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines from 1931 to 1953 and Principal Director of Music of the Royal Marines from 1953 to 1968. He was the first British Armed Forces musician to be knighted.
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Michael Obst
- Occupations
- university teacherpianistcomposer
- Biography
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Michael Obst is a German composer and pianist.
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Franz Mohr
- Occupations
- piano tunerpiano maker
- Biography
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Franz Mohr was a German-born American piano technician. As chief technician of Steinway & Sons from 1968 to 1992, Mohr frequently tuned pianos for numerous leading concert pianists, including Glenn Gould, Vladimir Horowitz, Sviatoslav Richter, and Artur Rubinstein.
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Alexander Gilman
- Occupations
- violinistmusicianclassical violinist
- Biography
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Alexander Gilman is a German violinist, academic teacher and artistic director of the LGT Young Soloists. He has been performing internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and regularly conducting masterclasses.
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Julius Buths
- Occupations
- pianistconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Julius Buths was a German pianist, conductor and minor composer. He was particularly notable in his early championing of the works of Edward Elgar in Germany. He conducted the continental European premieres of both the Enigma Variations and The Dream of Gerontius. He also had notable associations with Frederick Delius and Gustav Mahler.
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Georg Hajdu
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teacher
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Georg Hajdu is a German composer of Hungarian descent. His work is dedicated to the combination of music, science and computer technology. He is noted for his opera Der Sprung – Beschreibung einer Oper and the network music performance environment Quintet.net.
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Thomas Lehn
- Occupations
- pianistexperimental musician
- Biography
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Thomas Lehn is a German piano and synthesizer player active in free improvisation and contemporary music.
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Dirk Schäfer
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne
- Studied in 1890-1894
- Occupations
- pianistmusicologistcomposer
- Biography
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Dirk Schäfer was a Dutch concert pianist and composer. His compositions include piano pieces ("Sonate Inaugurale" Op. 9) and chamber music, such as his distinctly Brahmsian piano quintet in D flat (Opus 5) and his sonatas for violin and piano, Op. 11. He also wrote a "Javanese Rhapsody". He recorded performances of works by Chopin and Francois Couperin before his death.
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Siegfried Borries
- Occupations
- concertmasteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Siegfried Paul Otto Borries was a German violinist and violin educator.
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Jean-Yves Bosseur
- Occupations
- composermusicologistgraphic artistwriter
- Biography
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Jean-Yves Bosseur is a French composer and writer.
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Emile-Robert Blanchet
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Émile-Robert Blanchet was a French-speaking Swiss pianist, composer and mountaineer.
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Bruno Vlahek
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Bruno Vlahek is a Croatian pianist and composer.
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Isidor Seiss
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductormusic educator
- Biography
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Isidor Wilhelm Seiss was a German composer, conductor, pianist, piano pedagogue and philanthropist. His surname also appears as Seiß, and his first name also appears as Isidore.
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Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
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- composerconductormusicologistmusic educator
- Biography
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Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár was an Austrian composer based in Graz, head of the Schule des Musikvereins für Steiermark there.
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Carl Lachmund
- Occupations
- conductorpianistdiaristcomposermusic educator
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Carl V. Lachmund was an American classical pianist, teacher, conductor, composer, and diarist. He was a student of Franz Liszt for three years, and his detailed diaries of his time with Liszt provide an invaluable insight into that composer’s teaching methods and some aspects of his character. He founded the Lachmund Conservatory in New York and ran it for 22 years, and he founded the Women's String Orchestra, conducting it for 12 seasons.
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Cornélie van Zanten
- Occupations
- voice teachernon-fiction writeropera singer
- Biography
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Wijntje Cornelia van Zanten was a Dutch opera singer, singing teacher and author. She sang both mezzo-soprano and alto.
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Carl Heymann
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Carl Heymann, was a virtuoso German pianist, composer and piano teacher.
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Henry Fairs
- Occupations
- organist
- Biography
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Henry Fairs is an English organist. He is organist to the University of Birmingham and Head of Organ Studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire;. Since winning the Odense International Organ Competition, his concert career has taken him to the major European centres of organ music and to America, performing solo recitals and concertos on both historic and modern instruments.
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Karl Aagard Østvig
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Karl Aagaard Østvig was a Norwegian operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher. The Norwegian Music History Archive states that he is the greatest dramatic tenor in Norwegian history, and that he was particularly admired for his portrayals in operas by Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss and above all Richard Wagner. His voice was described by soprano Lotte Lehmann as “a dazzling meteor.” Although he toured internationally in concerts, operas, and recitals, his singing career was mainly centered in Austria and Germany from his debut in 1914 up until his retirement from the stage in 1933. From 1932 on he lived in Oslo where he was primarily active as an opera director and singing teacher. He made only a few recordings during his career, all for Polydor Records.
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Mihi Kim
- Occupations
- flautist
- Biography
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Mihi Kim is a French flautist originally from Korea, living in Paris, France.
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Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann was a German operatic soprano of Brazilian birth. In 1916, she was awarded the Charlottenkreuz.
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Camille Babut du Marès
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Camille Babut du Marès is a Belgian violinist.
