The choir was founded on the 07/03/1952 by Fritz Rothschuh. Since 1983'Bernhard Reimann is the conductor of the choir. Boys can join the choir at the age of six.
The choir sings secular and sacral choir music, like Gregorian music, spiritual, madrigal, musical and folk songs but also pop-songs.
Concerts - the singing ambassador of Munich, Bavaria and Germany, which are the choir is also called have been on more than 125 concerts tours and sung more than 3000 concerts all over the world. Almost everywhere in Europe but also in Amerika, Canada, Japan and Australia. The choir was recorded for movies, CD's and radio productions as well as TV shows like, ""Kein schöner Land".
'Gesega dich Laub', Jürg Baur
Jürg Baur is a German composer and teacher. He rose to prominence at the age of 18 when his first string quartet was given its premiere by a professional quartet at the Düsseldorf Hindenburg secondary school. Between 1937 and 1948 he attended the Cologne Musikhochschule as a pupil of Jarnach (composition), Karl-Hermann Pillney (piano) and Michael Schneider (organ and sacred music), though his studies were interrupted by the war; he later studied musicology at Cologne University (1948-1951). In 1946 he was appointed lecturer in music theory at the Düsseldorf Conservatory and from 1952 to 1960 he was choirmaster and organist at St Paulus, also in Düsseldorf. During 1960 Baur held a scholarship from the Federal German government to study at the Villa Massimo in Rome for six months; he returned to Rome for a second stay in 1968 and was guest of honour there in 1980. He was director of the Düsseldorf Conservatory (1965-1971) and was appointed professor in 1969. In 1971 he succeeded B.A. Zimmermann as teacher of composition at the Cologne Musikhochschule, remaining there until 1990. Baur s many distinctions include the Recklinghausen Young Generation Prize (1956), the Robert Schumann Prize of the city of Düsseldorf (1957), the Federal Cross of Merit (first class, 1970), and honorary membership of the German Music Council (1988), the North Rhine-Westphalia Service Award and the City of Duisburg Music Prize (1994).
Born in the generation between Blacher and Henze, Jürg Baur achieved widespread recognition as a composer fairly late in his career. Under the influence of Jarnach, he had already encountered the music of Bart?k, Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith in the late 1930's, but after the war he heeded Jarnachs advice in avoiding the more extreme manifestations of the musical avant garde. The works of the early 1950's maintain Jarnachs principles of economy of means and formal clarity, with Bart?k as the most obvious stylistic model. Baur only gradually turned his attention to dodecaphonic techniques, studying the music of Webern with particular intensity. However, although serial structures influenced his musical thinking, especially in the String Quartet no.3 (1952), the Quintetto sereno (1958), also notable for its use of aleatory effects, the Sonata for two pianos (1957) and the Ballata romana (1960), Baurs sound world seems far removed from the Expressionism of the Second Viennese School. During the early 1960s Baur strove to achieve an accessible yet modern style that remained independent of the avant garde. His most successful works at this time include the exhilarating Concerto romano for oboe and orchestra (1960-1961) and Romeo und Julia (1962-1963), in which the tragic elements of Shakespeares play are distilled into a powerful and cohesive entity. In accordance with his desire to maintain links with past traditions, Baur then developed a strong predilection for the quotation of earlier music in his work, though without the ironic, dissociative tone of many of the collage compositions of this period. The range of musical inspiration is surprisingly wide, encompassing such composers as Schumann, Dvorak, Béla Bartók, Johann Strauss, Gesualdo, Mozart and Schubert. Primarily a composer of orchestral and instrumental music, Baur has produced some radical works for less mainstream instruments such as the recorder and the accordion. Although he has rare ly written for the theatre, his vocal music demonstrates a remarkable sensitivity to poetic texts, the extended choral work Perch? (1967-8, after Ungaretti) numbering among his most powerful compositions.
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très joli!!
blandinevig 3 years ago
Oui très belle performance chorale.
treblechoir99 3 years ago