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Ratzinger, Georg

LC control no.n 82017443
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LC classificationML422.R36 Biography
Personal name headingRatzinger, Georg
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LocatedRegensburg (Germany)
Birth date1924-01-15
Death date2020-07-01
Place of birthPleiskirchen (Germany)
Place of deathRegensburg (Germany)
Field of activityMusic
AffiliationRegensburger Dom Regensburger Domspatzen
Profession or occupationConductors (Music) Priests Choral conductors
Found inSchubert, F. P. Messe Nr. 5 ... [Phonodisc] 1966.
Palestrina, G.P. da. Missa Papae Marcelli [SR] p1986: labels (Georg Ratzinger) container (b. 1924 in upper Bavaria)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014 (conductor)
New York times WWW site, viewed July 1, 2020 (in obituary dated July 1, 2020: The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, a Roman Catholic priest and celebrated choirmaster who was the older brother of Benedict XVI, pope emeritus, died on Wednesday [July 1, 2020] in Regensburg, Germany, where he had lived for most of his life. He was 96. After studying music in Munich and serving as a choral director in various German churches, Father Ratzinger became the music director at St. Peter's Cathedral in Regensburg. There, he served as choirmaster of one of Europe's great children's choirs, the Regensburg Domspatzen. He served there from 1964 to 1994. Georg Ratzinger was born on Jan. 15, 1924, in Pleiskirchen, Bavaria)