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German lyric tenor

Hans Peter Blochwitz (born 28 September 1949) is a German lyric tenor, who is known internationally in opera and concert, especially for singing parts in Mozart operas.

Career

Born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 28 September 1949,^[1] Blochwitz first studied computer science at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt^[2] and holds a Ph.D.^[1] He studied singing from 1975 in Mainz with Elisabeth Fellner Köberle and in Frankfurt with Erna Westenberger and Karlheinz Jarius.

He appeared in 1978 in Frankfurt as a soloist in Bach's Mass in B minor, and in 1984 as the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Altenberger Dom.^[2] He made his operatic debut in September 1984 as Lenski in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin at the Frankfurt Opera; he subsequently sang in Brussels, Geneva, Hamburg, Milan, and Vienna, especially as a Mozart singer.

When Peter Schreier, a lyric tenor himself, conducted his first pr