Georg Jelden (Tenor, Baritone)

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Georg Jelden (Tenor, Baritone)
Born: November 28, 1928 - Erlangen, Germany
The German tenor, Georg Jelden, was first a member of the Thomanerchor Leipzig; then studied singing with Emge in Karlsruhe. At the beginning of his career Georg Jelden sang at the Stuttgarter Staatsoper. He then however pursued the career of a concert singer. With expanded concert journeys in Europe and in North America he showed himself as one of the most important German concert singers of his generation. He is particularly estimated as a great interpreter of the works of J.S. Bach, as well as all the Baroque music. In 1963 he sang in the Salzburg Festival the tenor-solo in the Requiem of Mozart. His voice was changed later to the baritone range, so that he preferred to appear since 1973 in this voice. In addition Georg Jelden was a sought after singing pedagogue. Firstly, he had been active as a lecturer at the Musikhochschule of Frankfurt a.M.; then he was appointed in 1964 as a Professor to the Musikhochschule of Stuttgart. Apart from his teaching activity he continued however his successful career as concert and oratorio singer. Georg Jelden appears in numerous records as tenor on the labels Electrola (Markus-Passion BWV 247) of Bach, works of H. Schütz), Erato (Oster-Oratorium (BWV 249) of J.S. Bach), Corona, Fono (Baroque music), Calig-Verlag (Lieder) and Bärenreiter-Verlag (Deborah of Händel, Weihnachtsgeschichte of Hugo Distler), as baritone on Saphir (Winterreise of Schubert) and on Calig-Verlag (Christmas carols).

Source: Operissimo Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (July 2001) Contributed by Aryeh Oron (July 2001); Matthias Hansen (Photo - November 2007)
Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
Conductor	As	Works
Under his name	Tenor	BWV 439-507
Wolfgang Gönnenwein	Tenor	BWV 127, BWV 171, BWV 247
Hans Heintze	Tenor	BWV 33, BWV 95
Helmut Kählhofer	Tenor	BWV 46, BWV 65, BWV 207a, BWV 214
Karl Ristenpart	Tenor	BWV 233, BWV 243
Hans Thamm	Tenor	BWV 17, BWV 110
Fritz Werner	Tenor	BWV 7, BWV 10, BWV 19, BWV 21, BWV 28, BWV 40, BWV 103, BWV 106, BWV 119, BWV 131, BWV 149, BWV 249
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