Martin Gründler (4 December 1918 in Oberroßbach''Gründler, Martin.'' In ''Wer ist wer. Das deutsche Who’s Who''. XXXVIII. 1999/2000 edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1999, , – 20 October 2004) was a German voice teacher and university lecturer.

Life and career

From 1957, Gründler was professor of opera singing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Information about his students can be found in

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Leo Riemens Leonardus Antony Marinus Riemens (3 December 1910 – 3 April 1985) was a Dutch musicologist and cultural journalist. He wrote a book about Maria Callas, and together with Karl-Josef Kutsch began a reference book about opera singers in 1962, whic ...

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Großes Sängerlexikon ''Großes Sängerlexikon'' (''Biographical Dictionary of Singers'', literally: Large singers' lexicon) is a single-field dictionary of singers in classical music, edited by Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens and first published in 1987. The fi ...

''. Gründler was awarded honorary senator dignity at his university in 2003.''Ein großer Gesangspädagoge. Ein Liederabend mit Prominenz zu Ehren von Martin Gründler.'' In ''

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1918 births 2004 deaths People from Rhineland-Palatinate German voice teachers Academic staff of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts {{Germany-academic-bio-stub