Karl Münchinger

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Karl Münchinger (May 29, 1915 – March 13, 1990) was a German conductor of European classical music. He helped to revive the now-ubiquitous Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, through recording it with his Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1960. (Jean-François Paillard made a rival, and also very popular, recording of the same piece at around the same time.) Münchinger is also noted for restoring baroque traditions to the interpretation of Bach's oeuvre, his greatest musical love: moderate-sized forces, judicious ornamentation, and rhythmic sprightliness, though not period instruments. Born in Stuttgart, Münchinger studied at the Hochschule für Musik in his home city. At first, he guest-conducted often, supporting himself also with other duties as an organist and church choir director. In 1941, he became principal conductor of the Hanover Symphony, a post he held for the next two years. He held no other conducting position until the end of World War II. The year that the war ended, he founded the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, which he built into an impressive touring ensemble; it made its Paris debut in 1949 and its American debut in San Francisco in 1953. Under his leadership the orchestra issued (for the Decca label) numerous recordings, mostly during the 1950s and 1960s, and mostly of Bach's output; these included the Brandenburg Concertos (not once, not twice, but thrice), the orchestral suites, the St. Matthew Passion, the St. John Passion, the Musical Offering, and the Christm

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Karl Münchinger – The Baroque Legacy

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Baroque Adagios

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Ultimate Classical Chill Out

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Albinoni / J.S.Bach / Handel / Pachelbel etc.: Adagio / Fugue in G minor / Organ Concerto No.4 / Canon etc.

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Bach at Bedtime

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Study: 111 Pieces Of Classical Music While You Work

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The Essential Mozart

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The Very Best Of Relaxing Classics

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Essential Baroque

BACH: Cantatas BWV 10, 51, 80, 140, 202

Bach, J.S.: The Art of Fugue; A Musical Offering

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Munchinger Miniatures

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