Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (born 1964) is a German

harpsichordist A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord. Harpsichordists may play as soloists, as accompanists, as chamber musicians, or as members of an orchestra, or some combination of these roles. Solo harpsichordists may play unaccompanied son ...

organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...

and

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

Life

Bötticher was born in Berlin. After several years of music lessons and experience as a keyboarder in a band in his youth, he studied at the

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that hav ...

with

Jean-Claude Zehnder Jean-Claude Zehnder (born 1941) is a Swiss organist in church and concert, harpsichordist, and musicologist. In research and playing, he is focused on Baroque music, and has played and recorded at historic organs in Europe. He led the department ...

(organ) and

Andreas Staier Andreas Staier (born 13 September 1955 in Göttingen) is a German pianist and harpsichordist. Life Staier studied piano and harpsichord in the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover and Amsterdam. He studied piano with Kurt Bauer and Erika Haase, a ...

(harpsichord). This was followed by studies with Jesper Bøje Christensen. Since 1997, he has been leading a harpsichord class at the Schola Cantorum and teaches

historically informed 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 ...

at the Basler Musikhochschule. He is the organist of the Predigerkirche in

Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...

, where he is also co-initiator and artistic director of the complete performance of all

Bach cantatas This is a sortable list of Bach cantatas, the cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. His almost 200 extant cantatas are among his important vocal compositions. Many are known to be lost. Bach composed both church cantatas, most of them for ...

(2004-2012) and the "Abendmusiken in der Predigerkirche" (2013 ff.). Several CD recordings include works by

Alessandro Poglietti Alessandro Poglietti (early 17th century – July 1683) was a Baroque organist and composer of unknown origin. In the second half of the 17th century Poglietti settled in Vienna, where he attained an extremely high reputation, becoming one of Le ...

Michelangelo Rossi Michelangelo Rossi (Michel Angelo del Violino) (ca. 1601/1602 – 1656) was an important Italian composer, violinist and organist of the Baroque era. Rossi was born in Genoa, where he studied with his uncle, Lelio Rossi organist (from 1601 ...

Gottlieb Muffat Gottlieb Muffat (25 April 1690 – 9 December 1770), son of Georg Muffat, served as ''Hofscholar'' under Johann Fux in Vienna from 1711 and was appointed to the position of third court organist at the ''Hofkapelle'' in 1717. He acquired addit ...

, Ignazio Albertini,

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 of W ...

and others. With the baroque violinist

Hélène Schmitt Hélène Schmitt is a prize-winning French violinist and a professor of baroque violin in Boulogne-Billancourt. Schmitt first started out as a chamber musician before specialising in baroque music. She spent 10 years in Bâle, next to Chiara Banc ...

, he dedicated himself to the violin repertoire of the 17th century, and with

Chiara Banchini Chiara Banchini is a Switzerland, Swiss violinist, involved in the historical performance practice movement. She specializes in the music of the Baroque music, Baroque. Banchini was born in 1946 in Lugano, Switzerland. She graduated from the Gen ...

he recorded the sonatas for violin and harpsichord obbligato by Johann Sebastian Bach. Since 2011, he has been giving regular concerts with the baroque violinist Plamena Nikitassova. Bötticher is also active in the field of musicology. Among his most important publications are articles in the ''

Bach-Jahrbuch The ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' ("Bach yearbook" or according to the publication's website "Bach Annals") is an Periodical literature, annual publication related to the composer Bach. It is published in German by the Neue Bachgesellschaft in Leipzig. It is t ...

'' of the ''

Neue Bachgesellschaft The Neue Bachgesellschaft, or New Bach Society, is an organisation based in Leipzig, Germany, devoted to the music of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It was founded in 1900 as the successor to the Bach Gesellschaft, which between 1850 and 19 ...

'' and the article '' Generalbass'' in the Musiklexikon '' usik in Geschichte und Gegenwart' (with Jesper Christensen).''Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Cembalist der Extraklasse.''
2012 programme on

Radio SRF 2 Kultur Radio SRF 2 Kultur is one of six radio channels operated by Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), the German-language division of the Swiss public-broadcasting organisation SRG SSR. First started in 1956 (at the same time as the introduction of ...

Publications

; Articles * '' "In jeder Fingerspitze ein Theil der musikalischen Seele" – Das ‚Toucher‘ auf Clavierinstrumenten als Brücke zwischen sinnlicher, seelischer und geistiger Erfahrung.'' In ''Concerto – Das Magazin für Alte Musik.'' 30. Jg. , . * ''"Eine sonderbare Anmuth" – Grazie und Anmut in der Musik für Tasteninstrumente.'' In Luigi Collarile, Alexandra Nigito (ed.): ''In organo pleno – Festschrift für Jean-Claude Zehnder zum 65th Geburtstag.'' Peter Lang, Bern 2007, , . ;Recordings * Giuseppe Peranda: ''Sacred Music from Dresden.'' (''Missa in a'', ''Repleti sunt omnes'', ''Accurite gentes'', ''Timor et tremor'', ''Factum est proelium'';

Vincenzo Albrici Vincenzo Albrici (26 June 1631 in Rome – 7 September 1687 in Prague) was an Italian composer, brother of Bartolomeo and nephew of Fabio and Alessandro Costantini. Albrici was born as the son of singer who settled from Marche in Rome. In 1641 ...

: ''Sinfonia à 2'';

David Pohle David Pohle (1624 – 20 December 1695) was a German composer of the Baroque era. His surname is also spelled Pohl, Pohlen, Pole, Pol or Bohle. Biography Pohle was born in Marienberg into a family of civic musicians. He was a pupil of Heinrich Sc ...

: ''Sonata à 6''.) Miriam Feuersinger, Maria Cristina Kiehr (sopranos), Alex Potter (alto), Raphael Höhn, Jakob Pilgram (tenors), Markus Flaig (bass), Abendmusiken Basel, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (organ and conducting). Coviello Classics, 2018.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Botticher, Jorg-Andreas Musicologists from Berlin German harpsichordists German classical organists German performers of early music 1964 births Living people Musicians from Berlin