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Place of Birth: Mulhouse, Grand Est, France
About Paul Kuentz
- Paul Kuentz (4 May 1930 in Mulhouse, France) is a French conductor who studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1947 to 1950, with Noël Gallon, Georges Hugon and Eugene Bigot.
- He founded the Paul Kuentz Chamber Orchestra in 1951 and made many tours of Europe and the USA, performing the orchestral works of Bach at the Church of Saint-Séverin and at Carnegie Hall in 1968.
- He and his orchestra also completed two popular tours of Southern Africa.
- He frequently performs French music, including premieres of works by Pierre Max Dubois, Jacques Casterede and Jacques Charpentier.
- In 1956 he married Monique Frasca-Colombier.
- In 1972 he founded the Paul Kuentz Chorus. Over the years Kuentz befriended and performed with some of the leading musicians of the day, including cellist/conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, with whom he recorded a disc of Baroque harp concertos for Deutsche Grammophon in 1989.
- Among Kuentz's earlier recordings was his acclaimed two-CD set on Pierre Verany of the St.
- John Passion in 1987.
- Further successful Bach recordings followed, as well as a spate of others for various labels. Kuentz often recorded with other orchestras, or in rare instances with his own as well as another ensemble.
- His acclaimed 1995 recording of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, for instance, employed both his own ensemble and the Orchestre des Concerts du Conservatoire.
- Kuentz's recent releases are reissues of older recordings and include the 2006 Deutsche Grammophon CD A Baroque Guitar Weekend.Recordings include: J.S.
- Bach's Orchestral Suites, Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) and Musikalisches Opfer; Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and other concertos; Flute concertos by Haydn, Blavet, Mozart, Leclair and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi; Music by Michel-Richard Delalande, Jean-Joseph Mouret, Gabrieli and Gluck; Mozart's Concerto K 299, Requiem, Bastien und Bastienne and Church Sonatas; Harp concertos by Georg Frideric Handel, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Boieldieu, Wagenseil and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf; Joseph Haydn's Symphonies Nos.
- 85 and 101 (EMI); Other labels include Decca and Deutsche Grammophon.
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