Jürgen Jürgens

Jürgen Jürgens was a German choral conductor who founded the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg in 1955 and established his career from the mid-1950s specialising in choral and early music. He championed Renaissance and Baroque repertoire through historically informed performance practice, contributing to the post-war early-music revival in Germany and shaping approaches to choral sound and repertoire selection.