Hans Adolf Karl Wilhelm Grischkat was a German conductor, especially a choral conductor, a church musician and academic teacher.
10 Facts About Hans Grischkat
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Hans Grischkat founded the choir Schwabischer Singkreis for pioneering concerts and recordings of works by Bach and Monteverdi in the spirit of historically informed performance.
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Hans Grischkat studied at the University of Tubingen, first natural sciences, then musicology.
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Hans Grischkat studied at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart with Hermann Keller.
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Hans Grischkat founded in 1924 the Reutlinger Singkreis, in 1931 the Schwabischer Singkreis and in 1936 in Stuttgart the Grischkat-Singkreis.
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Hans Grischkat edited and published for Hanssler the series Die Kantate, offering sheet music of sacred works and background.
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Hans Grischkat recorded many Bach cantatas with the Schwabischer Singkreis, beginning in 1951 with Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51, with soloist Margot Guilleaume and the Bach-Orchester Stuttgart.
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Hans Grischkat led in 1953 an early recording of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, at least of several movements, with soloists including Margot Guilleaume, Friederike Sailer, Lotte Wolf-Matthaus, Heinz Marten, Werner Hohmann and Franz Kelch.
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Hans Grischkat conducted Bach's Christmas Oratorio in 1972, with Maria Friesenhausen, Hildegard Laurich, Peter Wetzler, Bruce Abel, Schwabischer Singkreis and Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim.
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Hans Grischkat performed and recorded Bach's Mass in B minor in 1958, with Friederike Sailer, Margarethe Bence, Fritz Wunderlich and Erich Wenk, Schwabischer Singkreis and the orchestra of the 35th Deutsches Bachfest.