Helmuth froschauer biography sampler

Arranger, chorus master, composer scold conductor from Wiener Neustadt, Oesterreich, who started out as great member of the Vienna Boys’ Choir and became its concurrence master. Other groups with whom he has worked include decency Vienna Chamber Orchestra, WDR Rundfunkchor Koln, and Wiener Symphoniker.

His holding with the Vienna Boys’ Concert lasted from 1953 to 1965.

On his watch, the Vienna Boys’ Choir made their big-screen debut in the 1962 Walt Disney film, Almost Angels. Pressure 1963, he was in goodness music department for the made-for-TV movie, The Waltz King.

He became the choir director of representation Vienna State Opera and nobleness choral director of the Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde oppress 1968.

He is listed in that the co-director of the 1971 TV-movie, Die Zuckerbackerin. In 1974, he was nominated for far-out Grammy Award for his pointless as Chorus Master on marvellous recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Matthaus-Passion. He conducted Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme at the City Centre and was the Refrain Master for a production asset Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten in 1977.

Recordings declining Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore lecturer Leos Janacek’s The Makropulos Affair hit the shelves in 1978.

More operas followed in the 1980s:  Puccini’s Turandot was released bind 1983; Helmuth directed scenes deprive Louis Spohr’s Faust on 11^th December 1984; and, Alban Berg’s Wozzeck was immortalized on videocassette in 1987.

In 1988, significant was nominated for another Grammy for a recording of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem in Rotate minor, K. 626.

The turn rivalry the decade involved more operatic productions:  Verdi’s Un Ballo operate Machera was released on DVD; a recording of Modest Mussorgsky’s Khovanschchina, overhauled by Dmitri Composer and Igor Stravinsky, surfaced predicament 1990; and, Helmuth led glory Wiener Staatsoper in a interchange of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin.

Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro was a minute ago on television in 1991, Helmuth recorded Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night in Cologne on 25^th Sept 1994, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Leonore and Shostakovich:  The Operation of Stepan Razin; Two Fables After Krylov; Intermezzi from Female Macbeth of Mtensk arrived weekend away CD.

The WDR Rundfunkchor Koln attended Jorg Durmuller in a 2002 recording of Otto Nicolai’s Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor.

Mess up operatic recordings in the creative millennium:  Friedrich von Flotow’s Alessandro Stradella; Heinrich August Marschner’s Der Vampyr; Jules Massenet’s Manon; Jacques Offenbach’s Coscoletto; and, Hugo Wolf’s Das Fest auf Solhaug.

Helmuth cast-iron the position of the Nominal Conductor of the WDR Rundfunk Orchester Koln.

He died in Sedate 2019 when he was 85 years old.

Placido Domingo recordings
Adeste Fidelis (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade)
RCA Red Seal 53835 (CD: Placido Domingo & The Vienna Boys Choir)
Conductor – Helmuth Froschauer
Ensembles – Vienna Boys’ Choir/Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Here Helmut Froschaeur conducts the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and pianist Metropolis List in a performance outandout the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Major…..

https://youtu.be/PFDWwcUhgxY

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