Stuttgarter Liederkranz
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| Seat: | Stuttgart / Germany |
| Carrier: | society |
| Founding: | 1824 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Citizens of Stuttgart |
| Voices : | 260 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | http://www.stuttgarter-liederkranz.de/ |
The Stuttgarter Liederkranz is a German choral society . It is one of the largest in Germany and, with 260 active singers, is the largest concert choir among the 20,000 choirs of the German Singers Association (as of April 1999).
history
The association was constituted in May 1824 under the influence of the Swiss music teacher Hans Georg Nägeli . On June 22, 1824 the first statute came into force. Among the founders were numerous Stuttgart citizens and personalities of cultural, intellectual and political life, including the lawyer and politician Albert Schott , who took over the chairmanship, the poet Gustav Schwab , the banker Gottlob Friedrich Federer and the bookseller and publisher Heinrich Erhard. Preceptor Kübler, composer of the Association of Collegiate Church Organists Konrad Kocher , who had already initiated the establishment of an association for the care of polyphonic choral singing in 1819 and was a member of a song table as a forerunner of the song wreath, became the choirmaster.
On January 6, 1825, the Liederkranz performed the oratorio "Der Messias" by Georg Friedrich Handel for the first time. In the same year he decided to hold an annual commemorative event on the day of Friedrich Schiller's death on May 9th. The song wreath plays a special role in the Schiler memorial in Stuttgart. It was also he who initiated the erection of the Schiller Memorial by Bertel Thorvaldsen on Stuttgart's Schillerplatz in May 1839 .
The musical direction was taken over by the then 23-year-old Stuttgart composer Louis Hetsch in 1831 , who, however, moved to Vienna a little later to continue his studies. In the years that followed, the Stuttgarter Liederkranz set an example for the founding of further choral societies in Württemberg, which united for the first time in 1843 in Tübingen for a Swabian singing festival. In 1845 the Stuttgarter Liederkranz also took part in the first Baden song festival in Mannheim and the first German song festival in Würzburg.
Club bars and song hall
As early as 1827 there were first considerations to build a song hall for the club. The club's premises were initially the Werner coffee house, in the 1840s the share brewery and, after its dissolution, the inn "Zum Kreuz" behind the town hall. In October 1853, the Liederkranz bought a building site in front of the Büchsentor. The Liederhalle was built here in 1864 , which was replaced in 1955/56 due to war damage and expanded to include the congress building in 1991.
In honor of Franz Schubert , Otto Elben donated a memorial in the garden of the Liederhalle in 1878, which was removed during the Second World War and again donated as a replica by the Liederkranz in 1999.
Awards
The Stuttgarter Liederkranz has already received numerous awards in the course of its history, including the large medal for art and science on the ribbon of the Württemberg Order of the Crown (awarded by King Karl in 1888), the orchestra's Pro Musica plaque and the Conradin Kreutzer plaque .
gallery
Appointment of Konrad Kocher as an honorary member, 1871
Promissory note for 10 guilders from the Stuttgarter Liederkranz dated November 26, 1872
repertoire
The Liederkranz works primarily on great romantic oratorios. The repertoire extends to artists such as Puccini , Rossini , Bruch or Gounod . The program also includes contemporary works, such as by Honegger and concert operas by Verdi or Bellini . Concert tours also led abroad, such as to Florence, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow and Rome.
literature
- Kurt Ehmer: “Intoxication, the flapping of the wings…”: Stuttgarter Liederkranz eV; Commemorative sheets for the 125th anniversary. Stuttgart [1949]. - Drawings: Willy Widmann, woodcuts: Viktor Himmel.
- Erwin Schwarz (Red.): Stuttgarter Liederkranz 1824-1974 . Stuttgart 1974
- Schiller and the Stuttgarter Liederkranz .. In: Gustav Wais : The Schiller City of Stuttgart. A representation of the Schiller sites in Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1955, pages 70–76, Figures 104–112.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Ferdinand Schwarzmann: Guide for the Kgl. first capital and residence city of Stuttgart and its next most excellent surroundings . Stuttgart 1829, p. 229