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Richter, Karl

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Richter, Karl (1926-1981)

German organist and conductor. He gave many performances of baroque music, especially of Bach's keyboard works. He recorded Bach's B minor Mass and St Matthew Passion.

He studied in Dresden and Leipzig, and was organist at St Thomas's, Leipzig, from 1947. In 1951 he moved to Munich and founded the Munich Bach Orchestra and Choir. He made his US debut at the Carnegie Hall, New York, in 1965.



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