Wiener Singakademie

The Vienna Singing Academy was founded as the first mixed choir Association of Vienna on May 4, 1858 the purpose of "Sing Exercise institution". From the outset, the repertoire was dominated by two main points: the care of the traditional master and the inclusion of contemporary works. Soon the Vienna Singing Academy has developed into a fixed size in the Viennese concert life. 1862, the young Johannes Brahms was brought as a choral conductor to Vienna, the city that he should henceforth be regarded as center of his life.

Over the years, the group of conductors who worked primarily with the choir, most notably Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Bruno Walter, who took over the chorus line itself for a few years grew. In addition, many well-known composers stepped to the conductor's podium to present their works in cooperation with the Vienna Academy of Music in Vienna premieres of the audience. Edvard Grieg, Anton Rubinstein and Pietro Mascagni volunteers in the first decades of the existence of the Vienna Singing Academy their contribution to Vienna's musical history.

After 55 years as a freelance choir, the Vienna Academy of Music awarded in 1913 with the opening of the Vienna Konzerthaus finally get their long-awaited homestead. Involved in the Vienna Konzerthaus, the choir has established itself as an important partner of the house and had in his concert activities only during the two world wars accept limitations. So but as the city of Vienna itself, the choir began in 1945 to live again, and the new development work culminated in the 50s and 60s under the leadership of Hans Gilles Berger in an artistic high point, in terms of choir trips, program variety, great conductor personalities and performance quality left open to be desired. Jointly responsible for this development was in the early days of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Paul Hindemith, later Karl Böhm, Hans Swarovsky, and the young Lorin Maazel. 1957 belonged to the Vienna Academy of Music to the winners of Karl Renner Prize of the City of Vienna.

With the acquisition of artistic direction by Agnes Grossmann first time in 1983 a woman was standing at the head of the Vienna Academy of Music. Particularly the academy idea was revived by Grossmann. Your concept that presented vocal training and musical training for the members of the choir in the foreground, is still very much alive.

Under Konzerthaus -General Alexander Pereira mid 80s to early 90s and subsequently under its artistic director Herbert Böck learned the chorus a further appreciation of his position at the Vienna Konzerthaus. So you can look back on working with major artists such as Georges Prêtre, Yehudi Menuhin, Claudio Abbado, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano.

Since the beginning of the 1998/1999 season Heinz Ferlesch holds the line. Under him, a program to support and promote young artists has been established. This includes not only the consistent education and training of the choir singers and singers, but also the involvement of young, aspiring soloists and ensembles in the concert programs. Through innovation and greater diversity in the design of the program, the choir's repertoire extends now over a wide spectrum of music history: from Bach's St. John Passion, conducted by Ton Koopman to Britten's War Requiem under Simone Young, of Verdi's Messa da Requiem conducted by Franz Welser- Möst to Scelsi KONX - Om -Pax by Ingo Metzmacher. Again and again, is Heinz Ferlesch also himself conducting and leads "his" choir by A cappella music and baroque choral orchestral works. The latest highlight in this regard was the performance of Handel's Judas Maccabaeus in the fall of 2006, culminating their inclusion in cooperation with the ORF in an internationally acclaimed CD production. Currently, the Vienna Singing Academy consists of approximately 100 singers.

New ways away from the big choir and orchestra literature treading the Vienna Academy of Music with the founding of the Vienna Academy of Music Chamber Choir in 2006. Ensemble, consisting of members of the Vienna Academy of Music, has mainly to the cultivation of a cappella music. In addition, the spectrum of vocal works, which require a smaller cast, expanded. Initial success was achieved with a 2nd and a 4th place at the International Choir Competition in Spittal / Drau the Vienna Academy of Music Chamber Choir in July 2007. For the anniversary season 2008 Commissioned to Christian Muhlbacher was awarded.

In 2008, the Vienna Singing Academy celebrated its 150th anniversary. The Wiener Konzerthaus brought for the occasion out its own anniversary subscription. At the anniversary concert on 8 March 2008 in the Great Hall was Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion to the performance. 2011 toured the Academy of Music in Dresden and Salzburg, where the Brahms Requiem came to the performance.

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