Ingeborg Reichelt was a German soprano singer known for her interpretation of works by Johann Sebastian Bach.
11 Facts About Ingeborg Reichelt
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Ingeborg Reichelt graduated as a music teacher in 1950 and passed her concert exam as a pupil of Henny Wolff in 1953.
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Ingeborg Reichelt recorded Bach cantatas with conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Karl Ristenpart and Kurt Thomas.
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Ingeborg Reichelt was a frequent soloist for the cycle of Bach's cantatas recorded with Fritz Werner conducting the Heinrich-Schutz-Chor Heilbronn and the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, including Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 with Barbara Scherler and Bruce Abel, a cantata that Bach had written for the first Sunday after Trinity of 1726.
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Ingeborg Reichelt's repertoire has included works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg and Hans Werner Henze.
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Ingeborg Reichelt performed with the Beethovenchor Ludwigshafen Bach's Christmas Oratorio in 1957, and Ein deutsches Requiem of Brahms, conducted by Horst Stein in 1967.
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Ingeborg Reichelt recorded songs of Igor Stravinsky, Pastorale for soprano, oboe, English horn, clarinet and bassoon, and his orchestration of Two Sacred Songs by Hugo Wolf.
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Ingeborg Reichelt's students have included Mechthild Georg and Andreas Schmidt.
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Ingeborg Reichelt wrote a book Die Balance im Gesang, published by Ricordi in 2004.
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From 1959 until his death in 2010, Ingeborg Reichelt was married to the lawyer and former World War II Luftwaffe pilot Hajo Herrmann.
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Ingeborg Reichelt died on 27 June 2022, at the age of 94.