Background
Hans-Joachim Rotzsch was born in Leipzig and educated from 1940 to 1945 at the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt, directed by Kurt Thomas.
conductor musicologist singer university professor choir director
Hans-Joachim Rotzsch was born in Leipzig and educated from 1940 to 1945 at the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt, directed by Kurt Thomas.
He was also a tenor and an academic teacher. In 1949 he began to study church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig, learning organ with Günther Ramin. Rotzsch became known as an oratorio tenor.
In 1972 he was appointed professor at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Hochschule.
From 1972 until 1991 he was the Thomaskantor, as the 15th successor of Bach in this position.
