Gunar Letzbor
Baroque violinist Gunar Letzbor emerged from the hotbeds of historical performance in Austria and Germany in the 1980s to found is own group, Ars Antiqua Austria. He has also been active as an educator and author.
Letzbor was born in Austria in 1961. He attended the Mozarteum in Salzburg, studying violin, composition, and conducting. Meeting the historical performance conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt stimulated his interest in early music, and after graduating in 1985, he headed for Cologne for further study with violinist and conductor Reinhard Goebel. In Germany in the late 1980s, Letzbor was active in many of the early music groups of the day in the German-speaking realm, including not only Goebel's Musica Antiqua Köln, but also the Clemencic Consort, the Wiener Akademie, and the Armonico Tributo Basel. In 1995, he founded Ars Antiqua Austria, of which he remains the director. Under his leadership the group grew, taking on a regular concert series at the Wiener Konzerthaus in 2002 and added one at the Brucknerhaus Linz in 2008. Under Letzbor, the group has specialized in the somewhat neglected field of Austrian Baroque music, with Letzbor himself taking the difficult solo parts in the music of Heinrich Ignaz von Biber, and has found itself in demand internationally, mounting tours in the U.S. and Japan as well as across Europe.
Letzbor has led Ars Antiqua Austria in an unusually vigorous catalog of recordings; the group has recorded for the Chesky, Challenge Classics, and Pan Classics labels, among others. In the year 2011 alone, five new recordings by Ars Antiqua Austria appeared. In 2018, the group released an album of music devoted to the little-known Austrian composer Rupert Ignaz Mayr.
Letzbor has taught violin at the University of Lübeck and the University of Vienna, and he is the author of a manual on violin playing.
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Artistas semelhantes
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Cantate Per Contralto Con Violini
Alois Mühlbacher, Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor
Classical - Lançado por Challenge Classics em 5 de jan. de 2024
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Accordato: Habsburg Violin Music
Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria
Chamber Music - Lançado por Pan Classics em 27 de mai. de 2016
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Dulcis Fidium Harmonia: symphoniis ecclesiasticis concinnata - opus 4 M. DCC. III
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor
Classical - Lançado por Arcana em 17 de jun. de 2009
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Weichlein: Messen
Ars Antiqua Austria, St. Florianer Sängerknaben, Gunar Letzbor
Classical - Lançado por Accent em 23 de mar. de 2018
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Conti: Cantate con istromenti
Bernarda Fink, Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor
Classical - Lançado por Arcana em 1 de jan. de 2002
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Armonico Tributo - Florilegium Primum (Georg Muffat)
Classical - Lançado por Pan Classics em 6 de out. de 2011
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Bononcini: Cantate in Soprano
Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria, Radu Marian
Classical - Lançado por Arcana em 1 de jan. de 2005
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Johann Joseph Fux : Oratorium germanicum de Passione
Sacred Vocal Music - Lançado por Pan Classics em 4 de fev. de 2013
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Pandolfi Mealli: Sonate à violino solo (Opera terza)
Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria
Classical - Lançado por Arcana em 11 de set. de 2013
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Rupert Ignaz Mayr : Psalms from Sacri Concentus 1681
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor
Sacred Vocal Music - Lançado por Challenge Classics em 1 de jun. de 2018
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Sacri Concentus - Antiphone (1681)
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor
Classical - Lançado por Challenge Classics em 6 de set. de 2019
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Lonati: Sonate da chiesa
Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria
Chamber Music - Lançado por Pan Classics em 6 de abr. de 2018
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Anonymous Habsburg Violin Music
Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria
Chamber Music - Lançado por Pan Classics em 1 de abr. de 2014
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Bertali: Prothimia Suavissima
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor
Classical - Lançado por Arcana em 1 de jan. de 2006
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Vilsmayr: Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera a Violin Solo 1715
Classical - Lançado por Arcana em 1 de jan. de 2004
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Requiem (Franz Joseph Aumann)
Sacred Vocal Music - Lançado por Pan Classics em 3 de mar. de 2011
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Festive Masses for Lambach Abbey
St. Florianer Sängerknaben, Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor, Unknown Artist
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por Accent em 3 de jul. de 2020
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Fux: Partite a 3
Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria
Classical - Lançado por Challenge Classics em 29 de abr. de 2011
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Viviani: Capricci Armonici
Gunar Letzbor, Andreas Lackner
Classical - Lançado por Arcana em 1 de jan. de 2009
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Mozart: Mannheim 1778
Chamber Music - Lançado por Pan Classics em 3 de mai. de 2019
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Pandolfi Mealli: Sonate à violino solo (Opera quarta)
Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria
Classical - Lançado por Arcana em 14 de abr. de 2011
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