Choral conductors are generally not viewed as being innovators, so dependent are they on realizing the letter and law of the scores they receive from composers. One choral conductor who can be classed as an innovator is Clytus Gottwald; as founder and longtime conductor of the Stuttgart Schola Cantorum, Gottwald piloted the group through the extremes of the vocal spectrum, redesigning from within the standard working methods of the chorus and inspiring composers to follow his lead. Over the years, Boulez, Ligeti, Kagel, and ...
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Choral conductors are generally not viewed as being innovators, so dependent are they on realizing the letter and law of the scores they receive from composers. One choral conductor who can be classed as an innovator is Clytus Gottwald; as founder and longtime conductor of the Stuttgart Schola Cantorum, Gottwald piloted the group through the extremes of the vocal spectrum, redesigning from within the standard working methods of the chorus and inspiring composers to follow his lead. Over the years, Boulez, Ligeti, Kagel, and Penderecki -- just to name a few -- rose to meet the challenge, and Gottwald's recording of Ligeti's Lux Aeterna were among those used by Stanley Kubrick for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Along the way, Gottwald himself helped to vary the program with the Stuttgart Schola Cantorum by providing his own choral transcriptions of songs or even instrumental pieces, some by composers he knew personally such as Messiaen and Heinz Holliger, and others by older composers not well...
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