Klaus Mertens and consistency, Klaus Mertens sang in every piece that required a bass soloist, 190 in all." He is also involved in the project Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia of the same ensemble to record the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude, begun in 2005. As a singer of lieder, he has interpreted songs of Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Caldara, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert among others. He has performed the title roles of the romantic oratorios "Elijah" and "St. Paul" by Mendelssohn and, as music of the 20th century, Paul Hindemith's "Requiem" and Igor Stravinsky's "Oedipus rex". In the classical repertory
Paul Jacobs (composer) Paul Jacobs (composer) Paul Ross Jacobs is an American composer and musician. Paul Ross Jacobs was born in New York City. He attended the Juilliard School and as a child, played at Carnegie Hall, on television and for Radio Free Europe. After watching The Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show", he started playing guitar. He worked as a session musician during his high school years and later on with Meat Loaf, Roy Buchanan, and Edgar Winter. Jacobs' association with the National Lampoon came through Christopher Guest, who had written a large chunk of the first National Lampoon album, "Radio Dinner".