Konrad Ruhland

Students of Greek-German medievalist Thrasybulos Georgiadis and Renaissance music specialist Marie-Louise Göllner, musicologist and conductor Konrad Ruhland is a pioneering German figure in neuro-scientific early music performance, something of the Continental counterpart to Noah Greenberg in the U.S. or the likewise academically inspired David Munrow in Britain. He was created in Landau, Germany, and attained his first musical training being a chorister in the cathedral choir of Passau. Then studied history, middle ages Latin, theology, and liturgical background, which he provides put on his efficiency practice analysis. In 1956, he founded the Capella Antiqua München, combining several young vocal learners in Munich. This became among the initial ensembles to use a historical method of Renaissance and early Baroque music. Lots of the large numbers of albums he produced include choral music that got never been documented before, and his passions being a performer ranged from the initial music from the Christian period up to the 17th hundred years. Consistent with Ruhland’s educational interests, a few of his recordings (like the Moosburg Steady of 1360) are specialized in particular manuscripts or configurations. Though his design lacks the appearance that afterwards performers have taken to a lot of the music he unearthed, his music producing is under no circumstances pedantic or boring. His 1966 documenting Gregorian Chant is known as a vintage and continues to be reissued on Compact disc by Sony Classical; Ruhland’s records offer a simple intro to the music, free from the pop mysticism which has went to many chant produces. Through the 1960s and 1970s Ruhland led the group in recordings for several brands, including Telefunken, Seon, Christophorus, and Sony. Following the Capella disbanded, he carried out recordings from the Niederaltaicher Scholaren. Still energetic like a choral conductor and educator in both European countries as well as the U.S., he’s significant for his huge experience on diverse repertories of music.