Willi Gundlach was born on 15 May 1929 and is a German choral conductor and academic.
15 Facts About Willi Gundlach
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Willi Gundlach taught at the music department of the Technical University of Dortmund.
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Willi Gundlach founded and conducted a chamber choir at the university and recorded with them, including operas for the Kurt Weill Foundation.
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Willi Gundlach studied to be a teacher of higher education in Hanover, at both the Musikhochschule and the Technical University.
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Willi Gundlach studied musicology in Kiel and at the Cologne University, promoted to Ph.
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Willi Gundlach first taught at the PH Flensburg, then from 1963 at the PH Dortmund.
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Willi Gundlach published several books on his topics, including studies of Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn.
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Willi Gundlach conducted the choir of the university from 1976 to 1995.
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Willi Gundlach recorded choral music with the Kammerchor, including works by Hugo Distler und Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn.
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Willi Gundlach recorded in 1990 two operas by Kurt Weill for the Kurt Weill Foundation, with soloists, the Kammerchor and orchestra, Der Jasager, written in 1930, and Down in the Valley, written in 1948.
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Willi Gundlach initiated and cofounded a concert series of bimonthly concerts at the Romanesque church St Peter in Syburg, the Syburger Sonntagsmusiken.
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Willi Gundlach organised an Offenes Kantatensingen as part of the concert series, regularly on the Second Sunday in Advent, calling volunteer singers to an all-day rehearsal the day before, and a rehearsal with soloists and orchestra, mostly students of the university.
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Willi Gundlach moderated the event in the candle-lit church, conducting all who gathered in singing Advent songs and rounds, and conducting the cantata with the prepared project group.
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In 2005, Willi Gundlach conducted the Oratorio de Noel by Camille Saint-Saens.
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Willi Gundlach then passed the cantata series to younger musicians, but conducted one more Bach cantata in the 100th concert on 6 May 2012, the congratulatory cantata BWV 207, however with a new text written for the occasion by Martin Geck.