Augsburg Cathedral Boys' Choir

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Augsburg Cathedral Boys' Choir
Augsburg Cathedral Boys' Choir
Seat: Augsburg / Germany
Carrier: Diocese of Augsburg
Founding: 1976
Founder: Reinhard Kammler
Head : Stefan Steinemann
Voices : SATB
Website : http://www.augsburger-domsingknaben.de

The Augsburger Domsingknaben are among the most renowned German boys' choirs . In addition to their "core business", the maintenance of the musica sacra at the Hohen Dom in Augsburg , the Augsburger Domsingknaben are very successful and constant in the professional international music business.

history

The Augsburger Domsingknaben can refer to a tradition going back to the 15th century. In 1439 the voices of boys who used the Gregorian chant at the Augsburg Cathedral of St. Mary were first mentioned in a document. In the course of secularization in 1802/1803 this choir was dissolved. With Reinhard Kammler took place in 1976, the new foundation as an institution of the Diocese of Augsburg .

construction

Organization and talent promotion

Around 350 cathedral choir boys receive musical support in the St. Ambrosius House of Augsburg Cathedral Music. Depending on the choir level, choir rehearsals take place once or twice a week, voice training in small groups as well as individual lessons. There are also opportunities for instrumental lessons, a lunch menu, homework supervision in the in-house study room and a leisure room. The St. Ambrosius House is not a boarding school .

The apprenticeship at the Augsburger Domsingknaben begins with a two-year musical early education for 5-year-olds. After an aptitude test, these boys and 7-year-olds who have registered externally can continue, depending on their musical talent, in the pre-choirs, then in the B-choir (young choir), then in the A-choir or via the preparers in the chamber choir, the concert choir the Augsburger Domsingknaben. When the voice breaks , the so-called mutant class follows as an intermediate stage, before the training in the male voices of the individual choir groups continues.

The intensive vocal training of the Augsburger Domsingknaben, which derives the ensemble sound from the best possible technical and musical mastery of the individual voices, ensures the Augsburger Domsingknaben a consistently high level.

The choir was founded, designed and built up by Reinhard Kammler , who directed the Augsburger Domsingknaben from 1976 until the end of 2019.

Boy soloists

In addition to their own concert projects, boy soloists from the Augsburg Cathedral Boys' Choir are repeatedly engaged for the entire repertoire for boy soloists in operas, concerts and music productions.

“The Boy” in Mendelssohn's “ Elias ”, the “Three Boys” in Mozart's Magic Flute , the boy solo in the “Chichester Psalms” by Bernstein , the “Blessed Boys” in the Faust scenes by Schumann, the “Yniold” in Debussys “Pélléas et Melisande” or “the shepherd boy” in Puccini's “Tosca” or Wagner's “Tannhäuser”, as well as the “noble boys” in Wagner's “Lohengrin” are part of the permanent repertoire of the Augsburg Cathedral Boys' Choir.

Male voices

The male voices of the Augsburger Domsingknaben, all of the earlier boys' voices proven in concert, opera and production, receive individual vocal training as tenors and basses again after the change of voice with the Augsburger Domsingknaben. Together with the boys' voices, they maintain the choir's classical repertoire, but also set their own accents through the regular performance of Gregorian chant, madrigals, folk songs and choral romance through to hits by the comedian harmonists and well-known evergreens . Many singers and professional musicians have emerged from the ranks of the "alumni". Again and again, musically diverse vocal ensembles are formed with former Augsburg cathedral boys.

Public presence

The Augsburger Domsingknaben give regular concerts throughout Germany and many European countries. Concert tours also took her to Japan , Canada , Ecuador , the USA, South Africa and, in 2016, on a 4-week tour to China . You have sung several times for and for the Pope in the Vatican and repeatedly make guest appearances on official occasions at the Federal President in Bellevue Palace and in front of prominent national politicians in Berlin .

Conductors such as Sir Colin Davis , Fabio Luisi , Jeffrey Tate , Mstislav Rostropowitsch , Sir Neville Marriner , Thomas Hengelbrock , Kent Nagano , Mariss Jansons , Daniel Harding and Manfred Honeck have worked with boy soloists or the chamber choir of the Augsburg Cathedral Boys' Choir. They have been heard at renowned music festivals such as the Schwetzingen Festival, the European Festival in Passau, the Festival du musique sacrée in Switzerland, or the Baltic Sea Festival in the Schlosstheater / Stockholm or at major stages such as the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the German Opera on the Rhine Düsseldorf, or at the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg.

In Munich, the Augsburger Domsingknaben can be heard regularly in productions and concert projects of the Bavarian Radio , in the Philharmonie am Gasteig , in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz or in the Prinzregententheater .

From 2003 to 2018, the Augsburger Domsingknaben held their own festival in Günzburg, Swabia . Every year in September, “Bach in Rococo” performed works by Johann Sebastian Bach in the famous Günzburg Frauenkirche by the master builder Dominikus Zimmermann .

Honourings and prices

  • 1982: Winner of the German Choir Competition in Cologne
  • 1998: Bavarian poet thaler
  • 2001: Culture Prize of the Bavarian People's Foundation

Discography (selection)

  • The choir boys from the Augsburger Domsingknaben - an album full of heavenly music and music. a. with Tears In Heaven, Amazing Grace and You Raise Me Up / Deutsche Grammophon 2014
  • The most beautiful songs from the new God's praise / Weltbild Musik 2013
  • "Merry Christmas" - The most beautiful Christmas classics for the whole family - Augsburger Domsingknaben, Anna Prohaska, Adoro, Albrecht Mayer, Daniel Hope, Reinhard Kammler, German Chamber Orchestra Berlin / Deutsche Grammophon 2012
  • JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio IV-VI - Gerhard Werlitz, tenor; Johannes Kammler, bass; Boy soloists; Chamber Choir of the Augsburger Domsingknaben; Residenz Chamber Orchestra Munich; Harpsichord conductor: Domkapellmeister Reinhard Kammler / ars musici 2011
  • JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio I-III (CD and DVD) - Gerhard Werlitz, tenor; Johannes Kammler, bass; Boy soloists; Chamber Choir of the Augsburger Domsingknaben; Residenz Chamber Orchestra Munich; Conducting the harpsichord: Domkapellmeister Reinhard Kammler - live recording from the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI. and Federal President Professor Dr. Horst Köhler / ars musici 2009
  • God and the world - the male voices of the Augsburger Domsingknaben - from Gregorian chant and Tallis' lamentations to madrigals, folk songs and choral romanticism to the comedian harmonists and evergreens / ars musici 2007
  • Still, O Erden - Otto Jochum: A Christmas singing - u. a. with “Come you shepherds”, “Silent Night” and “O you happy” - Michael Haydn: “Lauft ihr Hirten” - a cantata with soprano solo, choir and chamber orchestra - and as a conclusion: the devotional yodel / ars musici 2005
  • Hans Leo Hassler - spiritual and secular: two masses - one of them the double-choir Missa octo vocum - as well as some madrigals such as B. "Dancing and jumping" / ars musici 2003
  • Are you playing - madrigals (O. di Lasso, HL Hassler) - "philosophical - cheerful" choral songs by J. Haydn - F. Schubert's "Ständchen" and F. Mendelssohn's "Abschied vom Walde" - B. Bartok: Tanzlieder R Schumann: Zigeunerleben / ars musici 2001
  • Salve Regina - The Marian antiphons in Gregorian chant, as motets and duets with organ - settings of AVE MARIA a. a. by GP da Palestrina and A. Bruckner - MAGNIFICAT: compositions by C. Monteverdi and H. Schütz - Marienlieder by F. Schubert and J. Brahms / ars musici 1999
  • Franz Schubert - Mass in G and "Deutsche Messe" / Calig in CO production with Bayerischer Rundfunk 1995
  • Orlando di Lasso - Sacred vocal music / ars musici 1994
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Missae Breves / German harmonia mundi 1991
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Motets BWV 225 - 230 / deutsche harmonia mundi 1989, BMG 1996
  • A child is born to us - motets and choral movements for Advent and Christmas: works for two choirs by Heinrich Schütz and Giovanni Gabrieli, choral movements, etc. a. by JS Bach and Heinrich Kaminski, Volkstümliches: “Still, o Himmel”, “The most beautiful 'Kindl' and finally: Otto Jochum's setting of“ Silent Night, Holy Night ”/ ars musici 1988
  • Leonhard Lechner - Passion, Missa Prima, "Domino Dominus Noster", motets / German harmonia mundi 1986
  • Joseph Haydn: the “Youth Mass” - a work of carefree youthfulness. Pastoral grace: the Missa Sti Nicolai, called six-quarter mass. With a sweeping soprano solo a. Organ accompaniment in the Benedictus: the Missa Sti Joannis de Deo ("Small Organ Solo Mass") / German harmonia mundi 1985
  • Pastoral masses “Shepherd Masses” from Vienna (Diabelli) and Augsburg (Kempter) / ars musici 1984
  • Transeamus - Silesian Christmas carols - angels, shepherds, the child of God in the manger. “What does that mean?” “The splendor of the stars shines quietly.” And to begin with: the well-known “Transeamus” by Joseph Ignaz Schnabel / ars musici, 1984
  • On bright days - folk songs and madrigals / German harmonia mundi 1982
  • Now praise my soul to the gentlemen - From the heyday of the motet composition in 16./17 Century: Latin and German motets a. a. von da Palestrina, di Lasso and Hassler, von Schütz and Praetorius. The crowning glory: the twelve-part Magnificat by the Venetian Andrea Gabrieli / ars musici 1983

Former Augsburger Domsingknaben who are artistically professional (selection)

  • Ingmar Beck (conductor)
  • Markus Brutscher (tenor)
  • Martin Endrös (baritone)
  • Wolfgang Götz (conductor, head of studies at the Salzburg State Theater and at the Salzburg Festival)
  • Tobias Haaks (tenor)
  • Veit Hertenstein (violist)
  • Michael Hofmeister (countertenor)
  • Johannes Kammler (baritone)
  • Matthias Lampl (trombone, 1st deputy solo trombonist Hofer Symphoniker, Bayreuth Festival musician)
  • Benedikt Lika (musicologist, conductor, politician)
  • Christian Meister (scholarship holder of the choral conductors forum of the German Music Council, choir director)
  • Diogo Mendes (baritone)
  • Konrad Müller (trumpeter)
  • Günter Papendell (baritone)
  • Oliver Pröll (teacher for music, choir director, voice trainer)
  • Manuel Ried (tenor)
  • Patrick Schäfer (composer)
  • Felix Oliver Schepp (actor, chanson singer)
  • Stefan Steinemann (countertenor, organist, conductor)
  • Benedikt Terwiel (visual artist)
  • Tobias Wall (tenor, art historian)
  • Gerhard Werlitz (tenor, musicologist)
  • Joachim Wohlgemuth (cellist)
  • Anselm Wohlfahrt (oboist)
  • Reinhold Zott (tenor)

literature

  • Franz R. Miller: "Musical Sunday Children" - The Augsburger Domsingknaben , Auer Verlag Donauwörth, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Kammler: “A stroke of luck for the church and city of Augsburg”. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ "I'm not out of the world!" | a3culture | Feuilleton for Augsburg. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .