Frank Stähle
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12 July 1942 Stuttgart |
| Died | 10 December 2015 (aged 73) Frankfurt |
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Frank Stähle (12 July 1942 – 10 December 2015) was a German musician, a chorale conductor and the director of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt from 1979 to 2007.
Born in Stuttgart, Stähle went to schools in Hamburg and Wiesbaden where he received the Abitur in 1962. He studied church music in Frankfurt, including organ with Helmut Walcha, graduating in 1966. Stähle was the church musician (cantor and organist) at the Marienstiftskirche in Lich from 1966 to 1970, then at the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse.
He founded in 1977 the Rheingauer Kantorei, the choir of the Evangelisches Dekanat Wiesbaden-Rheingau (Protestant deanery Wiesbaden-Rheingau), merging two groups, the church choir of the Protestant parish in Geisenheim and singers from Wiesbaden. The purpose of the choir was to sing in church services of the region and to sing oratorios in concert. Main venues for the concerts were the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden and the Rheingauer Dom in Geisenheim. The groups rehearsed separately in Geisenheim and performed the concerts together.
In 1978 he conducted Handel's Messias, in the Rheingauer Dom and the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden, and Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms, in Geisenheim and the Marktkirche. In 1979 he conducted Bach's St Matthew Passion in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden and in Worms, in a collaboration with the Wormser Kurrende. He performed Mendelssohn's Elias with the Radiosinfonieorchester Frankfurt, in Geisenheim and the Marktkirche.Erich Wenk performed the title role. A reviewer wrote in the FAZ that the choir carried the dramatic action with great expressiveness in extremely differentiated grades of colour and articulation, based on a sensitive reading of text and score.
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