Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music.

Scholl was born onNovember 1967 in Eltville, Germany, and grew up in neighbouring Kiedrich. His entire family were singers, and he was enrolled at the age of seven into the boys choir Kiedricher Chorbuben, first documented in 1333 as a schola of men assisting the priests on all Sundays, singing the Gregorian chant. Aged 13, Scholl performed the role of the second boy in Mozarts Die Zauberflte at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, while his sister Elisabeth sang the first boy. That same year he was one of 20,000 choristers from all over the world gathered in Rome for a festival, and was chosen to sing solo at Mass onJanuary 1981, where he met Pope John Paul II. Along with his fellow choristers of the Kiedricher Chorbuben, Scholl was an extra in the film The Name of the Rose, playing a young monk standing alongside Sean Connery in scenes shot at Eberbach Abbey, near Kiedrich.

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