Florian Deuter (born in 1965 in Mülheim) is a German violinist and conductor specializing in

historical performance Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western classical music, classical music, which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of ...

Life and career

Florian Deuter studied violin in Cologne and Düsseldorf. In 1987 he joined the ensemble

Musica Antiqua Köln Musica Antiqua Köln was an early music group that was founded in 1973 by Reinhard Goebel and fellow students from the Conservatory of Music in Cologne. Musica Antiqua Köln devoted itself largely to the performance of the music of the 17th and 18th ...

under the direction of

Reinhard Goebel Reinhard Goebel (; born 31 July 1952 in Siegen, West Germany) is a German Conducting, conductor and baroque violin, violinist specialising in early music on Historically informed performance, authentic instruments and professor for historical perf ...

, where he was concertmaster from 1994 to 2000. He has also held the position of concertmaster with ensembles and orchestras including the

Gabrieli Consort Paul McCreesh (born 24 May 1960) is an English conductor. Paul McCreesh is the founder and artistic director of the Gabrieli Consort & Players. With them he has performed in major concert halls and festivals across the world. He has been the ...

under Paul McCreesh,

La Chapelle Royale La Chapelle Royale is a French ensemble of baroque music. History La Chapelle Royale was founded in 1977 in Paris by the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe. It takes its name from the Chapelle royale of the French kings. The initial vocation ...

and the Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe, and Les Musiciens du Louvre under

Marc Minkowski Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works, and is the current general director of Opéra national de Bordeaux. His mother, Mary Anne (Wade), i ...

, and has appeared as soloist and concertmaster with ensembles including the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman, the European Baroque Orchestra, and

Concerto Köln Concerto Köln is an ensemble specialising in music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The group formed in 1985, one of many groups associated with the surging interest in period instruments in that decade. Its members consisted mainly o ...

.Florian Deuter
Styriarte, retrieved 15 September 2020. With Mónica Waisman, he leads the ensemble Harmonie Universelle, which he founded in 2003; they also perform as a duo.

Discography

With Harmonie Universelle, Deuter has recorded works by Georg Philipp Telemann,

Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Friedrich Fasch (15 April 1688 – 5 December 1758) was a German violinist and composer. Much of his music is in the Baroque-Classical transitional style known as galant. Life Fasch was born in the town of Buttelstedt, 11 km north o ...

Johann Pachelbel Johann Pachelbel (baptised – buried 9 March 1706; also Bachelbel) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secularity, secular music, and h ...

, Jean-Marie Leclair,

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread a ...

and Arcangelo Corelli, sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and

cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of ...

s by Giovanni Battista Ferrandini among others. In 2008 they released a double album of Vivaldi violin

concerti A concerto (; plural ''concertos'', or ''concerti'' from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typi ...

. In 2018, with the soprano Dorothee Mields, they released ''Lass mein Herz'', a recording of overtures and cantatas by

Christoph Graupner Christoph Graupner (13 January 1683 – 10 May 1760) was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel. Life Born in Hartmannsdorf ...

.Ralph Graves
"Exceptional performances of Graupner cantatas"
WTJU FM, University of Virginia, 15 November 2018, retrieved 15 September 2020.

References

External links

Harmonie Universelle
{{DEFAULTSORT:Deuter, Florian Living people 1965 births German male conductors (music) 21st-century German conductors (music) 21st-century German male musicians