Arnold Schoenberg Choir
| Arnold Schoenberg Choir | |
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| Seat: |
 Vienna
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| Founding: | 1972 |
| Head : | Erwin Ortner |
| Voices : | (SATB) |
| Website : | www.asc.at |
The Arnold Schoenberg Choir is a Viennese concert choir and, since 2006, has also been the Theaters an der Wien choir . It was founded in 1972 by Erwin Ortner , who is still in charge today.
history
Erwin Ortner gathered a small circle of contemporaries around him in the parish of St. Othmar among the white tanners in Vienna-Landstrasse , which later became the youth choir and in 1968 the St. Othmar chamber choir. With this, Ortner, at the age of 21, achieved second place in the choir competition in Spittal an der Drau in the same year and won the competition in 1971. Encouraged by this, the chamber choir took on the name Arnold Schoenberg Choir in 1972 and had a long and lively collaboration with Nikolaus Harnoncourt .
In 1992 Rainhard Fendrich asked the choir to perform with him and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christian Kolonovits at the opening of the Vienna Festival in 1992 on Vienna's Rathausplatz . A live recording of the concert on Ö3 radio reached number 1 on the Austrian music charts .
honors and awards
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Under the direction of Erwin Ortner, among other things, the entire secular choral works of Franz Schubert were recorded on 7 CDs in 1996 . This recording was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize , the Diapason d'or in France, the Prix Caecilia in Belgium and the 1997 Grand Prize of the Academy Awards in Japan .
In 2001 the choir received the Grammy Award in the category “Best Choir Performance” for the recording of JS Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Harnoncourt. In 2007 the Wiener Festwochen production From a House of the Dead by Leoš Janáček with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir was voted the best performance of 2007 among all opera productions in German-speaking countries.
In 2010 the CD production Die Jahreszeiten by Joseph Haydn with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir was awarded the ECHO Klassik Prize.
2017, the Arnold Schoenberg Choir in was International Opera awards from the international jury chaired by John Allison, chief editor of the Opera magazine and music critic for the Daily Telegraph as "Opera Choir of the Year".
See also
- Opera casts at the Theater an der Wien since 2011
- Concert opera performances by the Theater an der Wien since 2006
- Opera line-ups at the Vienna Chamber Opera from 2012
literature
- Barbara Boisits, Uwe Harten: Arnold Schoenberg Choir. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
Web links
- Recordings by Arnold Schoenberg Choir in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir
- Arnold Schoenberg Choir at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Theater an der Wien congratulates the Arnold Schoenberg Choir on the International Opera Award 2017. Accessed on July 11, 2017 .