Thomas Quasthoff · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Die Stimme
- Die Stimme: Autobiografie
- The Voice
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1959-11-09
bass-baritone
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12,883
- Total plays
- 115,123
Tags
Classicaloperajazzgermanlieder
Thomas Quasthoff (born in Hildesheim, Germany, November 9, 1959) is a German bass-baritone generally regarded as one of the finest singers of his generation. Although his reputation was initially based on his performance of Romantic lieder, Quasthoff has proven to have a remarkable range from the Baroque cantatas of Bach to solo jazz improvisations. Quasthoff was born with serious birth defects caused by his mother's exposure during pregnancy to the drug thalidomide which was prescribed as an a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Hildesheim
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Employer
- Hochschule für Musik Detmold
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- atheism
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Official website
- www.thomas-quasthoff.com
- Image
- Thomas Quasthoff 2010.jpg
- Voice type
- bass-baritone
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- Commons category
- Thomas Quasthoff
- date of birth
- 1959-11-09
- name in native language
- Thomas Quasthoff
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- medical condition
- dwarfism
Sources (15)
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