There are several artists with this name: 1. a German baroque flutist and conductor, 2. a German organist, choir director, music educator and musicologist, 3. a Swiss composer and musicologist, 4. an Austrian choir conductor.
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1) Michael Schneider (born 10 August 1953) is a German flautist, recorder player, conductor and academic teacher. He is especially connected with later Baroque repertoire such as the works of Telemann and with early Classical repertoire such as the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and founded the orchestra La Stagione to perform and record such repertoire.

Schneider was born in Nordhorn. He studied flute and recorder at the Musikhochschule Köln. In 1978 he was a winner of the ARD International Music Competition in the category recorder.

For historically informed performances he founded in 1979 the ensemble "Camerata Köln" (Camerata Cologne) and in 1988 the orchestra "La Stagione". He conducted both in performances and many recordings. They appeared at the Handel Festival in Göttingen, the Handel Festival in Halle, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Schwetzingen Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, among others.

Schneider also conducted orchestras such as the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Cappella Coloniensis, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Israel Chamber Orchestra.

In 1980 Schneider was appointed professor for recorder at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 1993 he has been professor of the University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt, where he established in 2005 a class for "Historische Interpretationspraxis" (historically informed interpretation). Since 2005 he has served as a vice president of the university. In 2011 he appeared with about 50 students and teachers from the university at the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey, including first a variety of chamber music concerts in smaller halls of the former monastery, performed by a piano quintet, a string quartet and a trumpet trio, and finally a semi-staged presentation of Alessandro Stradella's oratorio San Giovanni Battista in the Basilika.

Selected recordings:
Schneider recorded especially the works of Telemann, both as a player and conductor, including his wind concertos (6 volumes), recorder concertos, orchestral suites, Trauermusik (funeral music) for Karl VII, Trauermusik for Hamburg's mayor Garlieb Sillem and the Hamburgische Kapitänsmusik (1755). He recorded the oratorio Der aus der Löwengrube errettete Daniel, the comic opera Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho, the opera Damon and the one-act Pimpinone.

From the Italian Baroque, he recorded Stradella's Christmas cantatas, Vivaldi's recorder concertos, Geminiani concertos, and a Scarlatti recital with Dimitri Egorov. He conducted the operas Piramo e Tisbe by Johann Adolph Hasse and Handel's Rodelinda.

He recorded Bach's solo cantatas for bass with Gotthold Schwarz, the Thomanerchor and La Stagione, BWV 56, 82 and 158.

Schneider's recordings of early classical repertoire include the Magnificats of both Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Christian Bach on a Capriccio CD, Mozart with Ruth Ziesak, Simon Le Duc's symphonies, Carl Friedrich Abel's flute concertos, chamber music, piano concertos, symphonies, Franz Ignaz Beck's symphonies, Georg Anton Benda's harpsichord concertos, Matthias Georg Monn's cello concertos and Josef Martin Kraus' Requiem, Haydn's opera L'anima del filosofo and Ignaz Holzbauer's Günther von Schwarzburg.

Awards:
In 2000 Schneider was awarded the Telemann Prize of Magdeburg. His recording of Telemann's opera Damon with La Stagione was the "Critic's Choice" of Gramophone in 1998.
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2) Michael Schneider (born March 4, 1909 in Weimar; † November 26, 1994 in Cologne) was a German organist, choir director, music educator and musicologist.

From 1927 to 1930, Michael Schneider studied piano at the Weimar University of Music with Bruno Hinze-Reinhold, organ with Friedrich Martin and composition with Richard Wetz. He then went to the church music institute in Leipzig for a year, where Karl Straube (organ), Kurt Thomas (choir director) and Robert Teichmüller (piano) were his teachers.

After completing his studies, he was appointed organist at the town church of St. Peter and Paul (Herderkirche) in his hometown and at the same time taught at the music college there. In 1934 he became main organist and cantor at the Matthäuskirche in Munich and in 1935 teacher at the State Academy of Music.

From 1936 to 1941 Schneider was professor of organ and Head of the department for Protestant church music at the Cologne University of Music and at the same time took over the artistic direction of the Cologne Bach Association. In 1940, he received his doctorate at the University of Cologne on the organ playing technique of the early 19th century in Germany, presented in the organ schools of the time, thus completing his musicological studies, which he had begun in Jena (Werner Danckert) and Munich (Rudolf von Ficker). had, off. During the war he led the Berlin Kantorei (Rudolf Lamy Singing Community) from 1942 to 1944 and the Bruckner Choir in Linz in 1944/45. In 1945 he went back to Munich and became organist and cantor at St. Mark's Church (church music director in 1949); From 1948 he taught again at the Munich University of Music.

In 1951 he spent three months with Marcel Dupré in Paris and in the same year accepted a call to the Detmold University of Music, where he again became professor of organ and head of the department for Protestant church music 1953–57 held the position of deputy director. At the same time, he conducted the Bielefeld Music Association from 1951 to 1959.

From 1958 he taught at the Berlin University of Music and from 1961 to 1965 he also headed the student choir at the Technical University and the Free University. He was also organist at the Heilsbronnen Church. In 1965 he moved again to the Cologne University of Music and became head of the department for Protestant church music, organ professor and at the same time organist of the Gürzenich Orchestra. After his retirement in 1975, he continued to teach in Cologne. In addition, he continued his extensive concert and freelance teaching activities at home and abroad, including as a visiting professor at several American universities.

Directly connected to the Reger tradition through Karl Straube, he tried to combine the principles of Straube's Leipzig School with those of the Reger school in his playing and teaching practice Dupré's Parisian school. He was always open to new musicological findings and the resulting developments for organ playing. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the German neoclassical organ school. Works by Johann Nepomuk David, Karl Höller, Max Baumann, Hermann Schroeder (Organ Concerto op. 25) and Frank Michael Beyer owe their premieres to him. Since the 1950s he has also made numerous radio and vinyl recordings, including music by Scheidt, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Bach and Schroeder.

As a teacher at five major music colleges, Michael Schneider shaped organist training for decades. His students included Jürg Baur, Paul Damjakob, Egidius Doll, Hans Eugen Frischknecht, Johannes Geffert, Klaus Germann, Karl Hochreither, Rudolf Innig, Klaus Dieter Kern, Bernhard Klapprott, Jon Laukvik, Heinz Lohmann, Peter Neumann, Stefan Palm, Roland Ploeger , Norbert Richtsteig, Andreas Rothkopf, Almut Rößler, Hartmut Schmidt, Ernst Triebel and Gerd Zacher.
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3) Michael Schneider (born 6 September 1964) is a Swiss composer and musicologist. He is active as a music and culture journalist as well as manager.

Schneider was born in Göttingen in 1964 and received piano and harpsichord lessons at an early age. He took his school-leaving examination at the Alte Kantonsschule Aarau, where the composer János Tamás also taught. From 1985 to 1993 he studied musicology, modern history and art history at the University of Zurich and from 1990 to 1994 composition with Dimitri Terzakis at the University of the Arts Bern. In 1988/89 he lived in Sydney, where he made contacts with the Australian music scene. As part of the Lucerne Festival Schneider attended master classes with Edison Denisov in 1991 and 1993. In 1993 he was a founding member of the group of composers Groupe Lacroix.

Schneider worked from 1984 to 1993 as music critic for the Aargauer Zeitung and the Badener Tagblatt. From 1993 to 1998 he was project manager at Stapferhaus, managed the PAN Musikverlag in Zurich from 1999 to 2001 and subsequently headed the public relations department of the Museum der Kulturen Basel from 2001 to 2006. From 2000 to 2012 he was also artistic director of the Wettinger Kammerkonzerte in Baden AG.

From 2006 to 2019, Schneider served as managing director of the Swiss Cultural Foundation Künstlerhaus Boswil. In addition, he is active on a voluntary basis in several cultural foundations (e.g. since 1990 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Peter Mieg Foundation).
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4) Michael Schneider (*1990) is from Salzburg, Austria where he began his musical career at the Mozarteum with piano and voice and later continued his academic training at the MDW Vienna. There he completed IGP piano as well as orchestral and choral conducting and completed all his studies with awards. Concerts under his direction have been broadcast by Ö1 and ORF III, among others.

Michael Schneider has performed as a guest with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO), the Gdansk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Baroque Orchestra, the Salzburg Bach Choir and the Vienna Singverein. In 2017, Michael Schneider was invited by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra to rehearse the choruses for Beethoven's 9th Symphony as Philippe Jordan's assistant on their tour of China.

He is artistic director of the Ensemble Interpunkt and the Collegium Vocale Soloist Ensemble as well as director of the Chorus Viennensis, a male choir consisting of former Vienna Boys' Choir.

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