Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik

Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik (born 6 September 1980 in Berlin ) is a German harpsichordist, improviser and music researchers.

He studied harpsichord with Bernhard Klapprott and joined in parallel to study architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar from, then he continued his harpsichord studies with Frédérick Haas at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels.

Alexander Grychtolik taught at various music academies (including Frankfurt am Main ) and has held a Germany-wide first-time lecturer for the subject " Baroque improvisation practice " at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar. He gives concerts at home and abroad as a harpsichordist, on historic organs as well as ensemble director. In addition to the interpretation of key works from the 16th to the 18th century, it is especially dedicated to the historical improvisation, a branch of historical performance practice.

The exploration and revival vocal and instrumental evidence of Baroque residences Cultural forms of his musicological and artistic work. Specially to 2008, he founded the ensemble average German court music. International attention gained its numerous reconstructions of vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach, broadcast, among others in Germany radio, the Austrian radio and in the Central German Broadcasting. So he published a reconstruction of the only proven late 2009 version of Bach -lost St. Mark Passion ( BWV 247) from 1744 and a first overall reconstruction of the so-called Köthener Funeral Music ( BWV244a ), which document his intense engagement with baroque compositional technique.

Publications

• Bach Bibliography: list of publications by Alexander Grychtolik
• Publications by Alexander Grychtolik in the database of the Fraunhofer Information Centre for Planning and Building IRB