Wolfgang Katschner was born in 1961 in Kyritz and is a German lutenist and conductor. He studied guitar at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin and lute at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt am Main. He is director of the ensembles Capella Angelica and Lautten Compagney.

Those ensembles specialise in Baroque music, notably Handel’s operas. The Lautten Compagney won the Rheingau Musik Preis in 2012, and in 2013 played the annual Marienvesper of the Rheingau Musik Festival at Eberbach Abbey, performing Monteverdi’s Vespers with the ensemble amarcord and five guest singers. Katschner also directed the Philip Glass Ensemble and the Lautten Compagney for several recordings of compositions by Philip Glass. His selected discography includes Handel recordings with Lynne Dawson and Simone Kermes.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Katschner
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8030077