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Choir director Gotthilf Fischer is dead. He died on Friday at the age of 92, as his manager Esther Müller of the German Press Agency in Stuttgart confirmed on Wednesday.
First the "Bild" newspaper and other media reported.
The musician "just fell asleep," said Müller.
“It was the time and the age.” He has been buried in close family circles since Wednesday.
Fischer was born on February 11, 1928 in Plochingen, Swabia.
He grew up as the son of a hobby musician and founded his first choir at the age of 14.
Three years later he took over the management of the Concordia choral society in Deizisau, and later became the head of other choral societies.
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He achieved nationwide fame when the Fischer Choirs appeared in 1969 on the program “Dreimal nine” with Wim Thoelke.
Soon after, the first record appeared.
Fischer has now conducted more than 60,000 singers all over the world.
You were active in the circles of friends of the Fischer Choirs.
More than 16 million records have been sold worldwide.
Only last year was the “King of Choirs” even awarded an Internet success: According to his management, his recording of the European anthem “Ode to Joy” with the song line “Joy of beautiful gods spark” came to more than 17 million YouTube Streams and tens of thousands of downloads from providers like Amazon and Spotify.
Converted, that adds up to roughly 75,000 physical sound carriers - there was a gold record for that.
Fischer's wife Hilde died in 2008 at the age of 89 after 59 years of marriage.
She had brought a son with her in 1949 and they had two children together.