Shock: Leipzig rejects both cantor candidates

Shock: Leipzig rejects both cantor candidates

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norman lebrecht

May 23, 2016

After deliberating for months over the rival merits of Clemens Flämig of Dresden and Markus Teutschbein from Basel, the process was stopped this morning and both candidates were told they had failed.

Instead, the city will now instal interim cantor Gotthold Schwarz, a local man, in the position once held by J S Bach.

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Photo (c) Matthias_Knoch

Comments

  • Chris Bruhn says:

    Well, no one needs to be shocked. It’s a good decision and we have more urgent issues in the world to be shocked about… Just the 2 cents of a Leipzig inhabitant.

  • Anon says:

    Who is shocked?

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