{{Short description|German soprano singer (1928–2022)}} {{Infobox person | name = Ingeborg Reichelt | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|05|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Frankfurt an der Oder, Weimar Republic | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|06|27|1928|05|11|df=y}} | death_place = | education = | occupation = {{plainlist| * Classical soprano * Academic voice teacher }} | organization = Robert Schumann Hochschule | awards = }} '''Ingeborg Reichelt''' (11 May 1928 – 28 June 2022) was a German soprano singer known for her interpretation of works by Johann Sebastian Bach.
== Biography == Reichelt was born in Frankfurt an der Oder studied in Dresden and at the Musikakademie in Hamburg (singing, dancing and acting). She also studied physiology. She graduated as a music teacher in 1950 and passed her concert exam as a pupil of Henny Wolff in 1953.<ref name="Bach">{{cite web |url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Reichelt-Ingeborg.htm |title=Ingeborg Reichelt (Soprano) |date=June 2001 |accessdate=2010-05-26 |publisher=bach-cantatas.com}}</ref>
Reichelt focused on singing oratorios and Lieder. She recorded Bach cantatas with conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Karl Ristenpart and Kurt Thomas. She was a frequent soloist for the cycle of Bach's cantatas recorded with Fritz Werner conducting the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn and the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, including ''Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39'' with Barbara Scherler and Bruce Abel, a cantata that Bach had written for the first Sunday after Trinity of 1726.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/BWV39.htm |title=Cantata BWV 39 Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot |date=May 2010 |accessdate=2010-05-26 |website=Bach Cantatas Website}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Nov04/Bach_cantatas1.htm |title=Bach Fritz Werner Cantatas Vol.1 |date=November 2004 |accessdate=2010-05-26 |publisher=musicweb-international.com}}</ref> In 1957 she recorded Bach's Mass in B minor with Werner and his choir, Helmut Krebs and Franz Kelch.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Apr05/Bach_Werner_2564614032.htm |title=Bach Fritz Werner |date=April 2005 |accessdate=2010-05-26 |publisher=musicweb-international.com}}</ref>
Her repertoire has also included works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg and Hans Werner Henze.<ref name="Bach" /> She performed with the Beethovenchor Ludwigshafen Bach's ''Christmas Oratorio'' in 1957, and ''Ein deutsches Requiem'' of Brahms, conducted by Horst Stein in 1967.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beethovenchor-lu.de/allekonzerteseit1924.pdf |title=Alle Konzerte seit 1924 |pages=17, 20 |language=German |year=2010 |accessdate=2010-05-26 |publisher=beethovenchor-lu.de |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718201830/http://www.beethovenchor-lu.de/allekonzerteseit1924.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-18 }}</ref> With the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor, she performed in Handel's Messiah in 1957 and Bach's ''Christmas Oratorio'' in 1967.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heinrich-schuetz-chor.de/KonzertChronik.html |title=Heinrich - Schütz - Chor Heilbronn Konzertchronik |language=German |year=2010 |accessdate=2010-05-26 |publisher=heinrich-schuetz-chor.de |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311212450/http://www.heinrich-schuetz-chor.de/KonzertChronik.html |archivedate=2011-03-11 }}</ref> With the Bonner Bach-Gemeinschaft she appeared in Hermann Suter's ''Le Laudi'' in 1967 and in Antonín Dvořák's Requiem in 1975.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bach-chor-bonn.de/tl_files/bach_chor_bonn/Dateien/Konzertliste.pdf |title=Konzertliste der Bonner Bach-Gemeinschaft |language=German |year=2010 |accessdate=2010-05-26 |publisher=bach-chor-bonn.de |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124302/http://www.bach-chor-bonn.de/tl_files/bach_chor_bonn/Dateien/Konzertliste.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> She recorded songs of Igor Stravinsky, ''Pastorale'' for soprano, oboe, English horn, clarinet and bassoon, and his orchestration of ''Two Sacred Songs'' by Hugo Wolf.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/February%201982/81/855435/STRAVINSKY.+CHORAL+AND+CHAMBER+WORKS,+Volumes+1+and+2.+Various+artists.+Schwann+Ams+Studio+604+606+%28two+records+at+%C2%A35.25+each%29.+Volume+1Gesualdo++Stravinsky%3A+Tres+sacrae+cantiones.+Stravinsky%3A+Pater+floater.+Ave+Maria.+Credo.+Anthem,+The+dove+descending+breaks+the+air+%28all+with+John+Alldis+Choir++John+Alldis%29.+%28ntroitus+%28Misseldorf+Stravinsky+Festival+1971+Male+Vocal+and+Instrumental+Ensembles++Oskar+Gottlieb+Blarr%29.+Double+Canon+%280Istersek+Quartet%29.+Epitaphium+for+flute,+clarinet+and+harp+%28members+of+the+DSF+1971+Instrumental+Ensemble%29.+Elegy+for+JFK+%28Toshimitsu+Kimura,+bar+three+clarinettists+from+the+DSF+1971+Instrumental+Ensemble%29.+In+memoriam+Dylan+Thomas+%28Michel+Lecocq,+ten+Ojstersek+String+Quartet+four+trombones+from+the+DSF+1971+Instrumental+Ensemble%29.+Volume+2Stravinsky%3A+Cantata+on+old+English+texts+%28Rachel+Yakar,+sop+Michel+Lecocq,+ten+Diisseldorf+Neanderkirche+Womens+Choir+Matthias+Neffgen,+Norbert+Mayer,+ftes+Christian+Schneider,+oh+Karl+Mergler,+ob+and+cor+a+Wolfgang+Mehlhorn,+vIc%29.+Pastorale+%28Ingeborg+Reichelt,+sop+Christian+Schneider,+ob+Karl+Mergler,+cor+a+Hans+Fischer,+clan+Fritz+Essmann,+bsn%29.+Wolf+%28orch.+Stravinsky%29%3A+Two+Sacred+Songs+%28Ingeborg+Reichelt,+sop+chamber+ensembleOskar+Gottlieb+Blarr%29. |title=Stravinsky Choral and Chamber Works |date=February 1982 |accessdate=2010-05-26 |publisher=gramophone.net}}</ref>
In 1975 she was appointed professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.<ref name="Bach" /> Her students have included Mechthild Georg and Andreas Schmidt.
She wrote a book ''Die Balance im Gesang'' (Balance in Singing), published by Ricordi in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weltbild.de/3/14274760-1/buch/die-balance-im-gesang.html |title=Die Balance im Gesang.html |date=May 2010 |accessdate=2010-05-26 |publisher=Weltbild.de |language=German}}</ref>
From 1959 until his death in 2010, Reichelt was married to the lawyer and former World War II Luftwaffe pilot Hajo Herrmann.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/8158054/Hans-Joachim-Herrmann.html |title=Obituary: Hans-Joachim Herrmann |date=2010-11-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=Hamburger Abendblatt |url=http://suche.abendblatt.de:8000/article.php?url=/ha/1959/xml/19590926xml/habxml59_23421.xml |title=In der Kirche von Nienstedten getraut |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730224010/http://suche.abendblatt.de:8000/article.php?url=/ha/1959/xml/19590926xml/habxml59_23421.xml |archive-date=2012-07-30 |date=1959-09-26 |language=de}}</ref>
She died on 27 June 2022, at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.rsh-duesseldorf.de/nc/aktuelles/artikel/2022-06-29-abschied-von-prof-ingeborg-reichelt/ |title=Abschied von Prof. Ingeborg Reichelt |date=29 June 2022 |publisher=Robert Schumann Hochschule |lang=de |access-date=2022-08-08 |archive-date=2022-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811115322/https://www.rsh-duesseldorf.de/nc/aktuelles/artikel/2022-06-29-abschied-von-prof-ingeborg-reichelt/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Reichelt, Ingeborg}} Category:1928 births Category:2022 deaths Category:People from Frankfurt (Oder) Category:German sopranos Category:Academic staff of Robert Schumann Hochschule Category:20th-century German women singers Category:Bach singers