Talk:Karl Münchinger

How did this get approved?
After reading this completely unsourced, no-citations article I am baffled at how other articles submitted WITH sources and WITH citations about notable topics get rejected except to conclude that it is a completely arbitrary process with no actual standards.

This article reads like a talent agency's promotional bio and not like an encyclopedia article.--23.119.205.88 (talk) 02:17, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I've some sympathy with this comment, but the easiest source for all musical information for the past sixty or so years has been record-company blurb, and sometimes it can be reasonably well-informed. Munchinger's first recording of the Brandenburg Concertos was reissued some years ago by Pearl, and their notes, by a record industry insider, Robert Matthew-Walker, point out that Nos 3 and 6 were among the first Decca LPs issued in Britain in mid 1950  and were immediately successful, so much so that Decca apparently went back to Stuttgart and recorded the other four before the December of that year. thus, possibly, establishing Munchinger's international reputation. It probably follows that his reputation for restoring "baroque" practices in Bach performance dates from the 1950s and if so the word "baroque" in this context will have to be understood as it usually was in the 1950s. There are an enormous number of issues with German Bach performance practice in that period and few of them are entirely musical - don't envy the Wikipedia contributor who takes that problem on. But de.wikipedia is much more informative about Munchinger - he seems to have been a protege of Hermann Abendroth, worked with Clemens Krauss, and his Hanover appointment had the support of Furtwangler. In other words, highly though of by his seniors, and not persona non grata with the Kulturministerium. The de.wikipedia article also mentions that his foundation of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1945 was undertaken on his return from a prisoner-of-war camp, - one of the first questions raised by the current text is, of course, what does a twenty-eight-year-old unemployed conductor do in Germany in 1943 in the middle of a war? Even de.wikipedia doesn't answer that fully.86.131.144.239 (talk) 13:50, 21 December 2015 (UTC)