Frieder Bernius is a pillar of choral music culture in Stuttgart, Germany, founding several ensembles and conducting performances that are often historically oriented. He has also conducted orchestral music, and he has an exceptionally large recording catalog. In 1968, Bernius founded the Kammerchor Stuttgart; he remained the choir's director in the early 2020s. The group issued Hör mein Bitten, an album of Mendelssohn's church music, in 1983. In 1985, he founded the Barockorchester Stuttgart and later the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart. By 2022, when he led the Kammerchor Stuttgart and Hofkapelle Stuttgart in a recording of Schubert's Mass in A flat major, D. 678, his recording catalog comprised some 120 items.