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Max Thurn
Max Thurn
German conductor and choir director (1897-1969)
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Horst Laubenthal
Horst Laubenthal
German singer
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Andreas Schmidt
Andreas Schmidt
German bassbaritone
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Ursula Zollenkopf
Ursula Zollenkopf
German contralto
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Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier
German tenor and conductor
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Wolfgang Helbich
Wolfgang Helbich
German conductor, church musician and university professor
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Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
German composer and organist
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer and pianist
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Michael Gielen
Michael Gielen
Austrian conductor
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Andrew Manze
Andrew Manze
English violinist and conductor
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Gabriele Schnaut
Gabriele Schnaut
German singer
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Franz Kelch
Franz Kelch
German singer
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Gerlinde Sämann
Gerlinde Sämann
German soprano
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Maria Friesenhausen
Maria Friesenhausen
German classical soprano singer
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
Günter Jena
German director of church music and choir director

Günter Jena

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German director of church music and choir director
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Günter Jena (born 1933) is a German choral conductor and musicologist. He was the director of church music at St. Michaelis in Hamburg from 1973 to 1997. He founded the festival Bach-Tage Hamburg, and provided music for ballet performances of choreographer John Neumeier at the Hamburg State Opera, including Bach's St Matthew Passion.