Stefan Altner

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Stefan Altner (18 November 2018, Kirche Panitzsch  [ de ])

Stefan Altner (born in 1956) is a German musician, musicologist and cultural manager.

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Life

Born in Brandis, Altner was a member of the Thomanerchor from 1966 to 1975 and attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. He then studied church music, e.g. organ with Thomas organist Hannes Kästner, piano with Herbert Sahling and basso continuo and harpsichord with Walter Heinz Bernstein, at the Leipzig Conservatory and, after graduating with a diploma in church music, worked as church musician in Zossen.

After a successful application for exit  [ de ] from the GDR, he moved to Munich in 1984. Altner then worked as literary editor for the Bärenreiter publishing house. From 1986 to 1993 he was managing director of the Munich Chamber Orchestra and harpsichordist among the baroque soloists of the Munich Philharmonic. From 1993 to 2019 he was managing director of the Thomanerchor. [1]

In 2005, he received his first doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre, supervised by Johannes Forner [2] Altner is chairman of the board of the Thomanerchor Foundation. [3] and co-initiator of the Leipzig education campus Forum Thomanum. [4] He is also on the supervisory board of the Leipziger Blätter . [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Peter Korfmacher. "Thomaner: Geschäftsführer Stefan Altner nach 25 Jahren in den Vorruhestand verabschiedet – neun Jahre lang war er selbst Thomaner, später wurde er für 25 Jahre der erste Geschäftsführer in der gut 800-jährigen Geschichte des Leipziger Thomanerchors. Nun hat sich Altner, 63, in den Vorruhestand verabschiedet". Leipziger Volkszeitung, Online portal, 6 May 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  2. ↑ Stefan Altner/Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 Jahre Thomana, Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, p. 470.
  3. ↑ contact, www.stiftung-thomanerchor.de, retrieved on 7 August 2020.
  4. ↑ Arnold Bartetzky: Raus aus dem alten Kasten, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 14. Mai 2009, Nr. 111, p. 31.
  5. ↑ Redaktion/Gestaltung/Herstellung/Anzeigenmanagement, www.kulturstiftung-leipzig.de, 15. November 2016.
  6. ↑ Das Thomaskantorat im 19. Jahrhundert : Bewerber und Kandidaten für das Leipziger Thomaskantorat in den Jahren 1842 bis 1918 : Quellenstudien zur Entwicklung des Thomaskantorats und des Thomanerchors vom Wegfall der öffentlichen Singumgänge 1837 bis zur ersten Auslandsreise 1920 on WorldCat
  7. ↑ Der Thomanerchor Leipzig in frühesten Filmdokumenten: zwischen Tradition und Moderne on WorldCat
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