Berliner Liedertafel

Berlin Liedertafel as the name for a male choir was first used for the 1809 by Carl Friedrich Zelter, founded the first German male chorus. 1819 was another founding by Ludwig Berger, Bernhard Klein, Gustav Reichardt and Ludwig Rellstab. In 1884, Adolf Zander still active Männergesangverein Berliner Tafel eV songs

History

The Berliner ( primal ) Liedertafel ( 1809 )

The first Berlin Liedertafel is also known as " Zeltersche Liedertafel " known ( after its founder Carl Friedrich Zelter ). The venue was the English house in Moor Street.

The ( younger) Berlin Liedertafel ( 1819 )

1819 "Younger Berlin Liedertafel " (or even younger Liedertafel zu Berlin ) by Ludwig Berger, Bernhard Klein, Gustav Reichardt and Ludwig Rellstab was founded. It differed radically from the elitist, romantic Zelter 's Round Table, so there was also a democratic statute. Here, the generation of young veterans gathered the wars of liberation and who brought their liberal and patriotic ideas. This background also explains the time maintained heroic song culture.

The ( New ) Berlin Liedertafel ( 1884 )

Founded in 1884 as a merger of several smaller choirs of Adolf Zander the new Berlin Liedertafel. By the end of the foundation year was 117, the choir singers. In the Wilhelmine era, the Berlin Liedertafel comprising over 250 singers of the largest men's choirs in Germany. The choir undertook long journeys abroad ( Austria, Romania, Sweden, France, the Baltic States, Italy, Russia, Egypt, USA, Japan) and edited together with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Berlin's major concerts.