Stefan Altner (born in 1956) is a German musician,

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and cultural manager.

Life

Born in Brandis, Altner was a member of the

Thomanerchor The Thomanerchor (English: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. The choir comprises about 90 boys from 9 to 18 years of age. The members, called ''Thomaner'', reside in a boarding scho ...

from 1966 to 1975 and attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. He then studied

church music Church music is a genre of Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn. History Early Christian musi ...

, e.g. organ with Thomas organist Hannes Kästner, piano with Herbert Sahling and

basso continuo Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing th ...

and

harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

with Walter Heinz Bernstein, at the

Leipzig Conservatory The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig () is a public university in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest music ...

and, after graduating with a diploma in church music, worked as church musician in Zossen. After a successful from the GDR, he moved to Munich in 1984. Altner then worked as

literary editor A literary editor is a editor responsible for refining and overseeing the quality of written content in a newspaper, magazine or other publication. Literary editor deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews. A literary ...

for the

Bärenreiter Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it ...

publishing house. From 1986 to 1993 he was managing director of the

Munich Chamber Orchestra The Munich Chamber Orchestra (, or MKO) is a German chamber orchestra based in Munich. Its primary concert venue is the Prinzregententheater, Munich. The MKO also gives concerts in Munich at such venues as the Pinakothek der Moderne and the ', an ...

and

ist among the baroque soloists of the

Munich Philharmonic The Munich Philharmonic () is a German symphony orchestra located in the city of Munich. It is one of Munich's four principal orchestras, along with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Bavarian State Orche ...

. From 1993 to 2019 he was managing director of the Thomanerchor. In 2005, he received his first doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre, supervised by Johannes FornerStefan Altner/ Martin Petzoldt (eds.): 800 Jahre Thomana, Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012, . Altner is chairman of the board of the Thomanerchor Foundation. and co-initiator of the Leipzig education campus

Forum Thomanum The Forum Thomanum (styled forum thomanum) is a music educational campus developed from 2002 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, as the new home of the Thomanerchor which was founded in 1212. It was conceived in 2002 by Georg Christoph Biller, then Thoma ...

. He is also on the supervisory board of the '' Leipziger Blätter''.

Work

* ''Thomanerchor und Thomaskirche: Historisches und Gegenwärtiges in Bildern'', Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 1998. * ''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 Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2006. * ''800 Jahre Thomana'', Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012 (edited with Martin Petzoldt). * ''Der Thomanerchor Leipzig in frühesten Filmdokumenten: zwischen Tradition und Moderne''.''Der Thomanerchor Leipzig in frühesten Filmdokumenten: zwischen Tradition und Moderne''
on WorldCat Edition Thomanerchor 2, Kamprad, Altenburg 2013 (edited with Günter Atteln and Hagen Kunze).

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on SÄBI * {{DEFAULTSORT:Altner, Stefan 1956 births Living people People from Saxony 20th-century German musicologists German harpsichordists German male non-fiction writers Literary editors