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Fritz Heller

Fritz Heller

Fritz Heller (1952) has worked as a freelance instrument maker since 1980 and as a cornett player since 1983. He studied the cornett at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and gained practical experience with ensembles such as Musica Fiata, the Musicalische Compagney and the Saqueboutiers de Toulouse; he gained experience as an instrument maker in John Hanchet’s workshop. Heller has performed world premières of works by Henry Pousseur, Mauricio Kagel and Charly Morrow.

In the past fifteen years he has concentrated on his own productions, including CD recordings and music publishing focusing on local music history. They include “Je ne vais plus à la guerre” featuring sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music from Aachen, Liège and Maastricht, and “Das Hohelied Salomonis” (1609) by the Aachen composer Reichardus Mangon. In other projects, an interdisciplinary approach combining figurative art, literature, culture analysis and music has been adopted to explore a particular theme, such as “Die Italienische Reise” and “Begehren und Aufbegehren”, or to establish a relationship between musicological research, instrument making and historical performance practice, as in the present recording.

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