Citizens Singers Guild Munich
| Citizens Singers Guild Munich | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Munich / Germany |
| Founding: | 1840 |
| Genus: | Choir and symphony orchestra |
| Founder: | Carl Stöhr |
| Head : | Hans Peljak |
| Voices : | 50 (SATB), 30 (orchestra) |
| Website : | http://www.buergersaengerzunft.de |
Ch | Or | chester Bürger-Singer-Zunft München eV (BSZ) is a mixed choir and orchestra in Munich . The sponsor is a non-profit association with currently around 200 members (including around 100 performers in choir and orchestra). Members of the association include Hans Zehetmair , Christian Ude and Hans-Jochen Vogel .
history
The club was founded in 1840 when the singing group of the Munich Citizens' Association became independent from 1819. During this time, Munich was not only the capital of what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria , but also increasingly a European cultural center. The citizens' association was an important supporter of Munich's social and cultural history.
The founder and long-term chairman of the Citizens' Singer Guild was Carl Stöhr (grave monument on the Old Southern Cemetery , where a large number of monuments commemorate famous members of the BSZ). Stöhr was a master shoemaker, came from the dissolved shoemaker's guild , a backbone of the former Munich Mastersingers Guild , in which Hans Sachs from Nuremberg had also learned to sing. According to the general development of society, the singers' association founded in 1840 should no longer just meet master craftsmen to sing, poetry and make music, but rather citizens who are generally enthusiastic about culture. Members of well-known artisan and host families quickly joined the BSZ, including several members of the Pschorr family of brewers , the Neuner family of wine merchants (leading the BSZ for almost 100 years), the spice manufacturer Develey and the art printer Obpacher. The professional group most strongly represented in the guild was that of elementary school teachers, until decades later they founded their own teachers' choir.
Around 1860, the BSZ was generally considered to be the most important lay association for the care of singing and music, and of culture in general, in Munich and remained that way for decades. Many associations have emerged from it in the course of history, such as the sociable association The Kestrels , with which there is still close contact today.
We worked closely with the city administration of Munich and their mayors (later mayor) from the start. When this became legally possible, the mayors or mayors were always members of the BSZ. The BSZ founder Carl Stöhr was also the founder of the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria and as a magistrate in the city government was responsible for social issues. The BSZ took part repeatedly in Stöhr's activities, for example when the first political party organization was founded in Munich, the March Association in 1848. It organized many city celebrations and gave benefit concerts for the fulfillment of social tasks.
In 1861 she was involved in founding the Bavarian Singers' Association. The first musical director who shaped the singer association was from 1862 the then musical director of the BSZ Konrad Max Kunz . For more than 45 years, BSZ member Wilhelm Neuner was the treasurer of the singer association.
Important composers and conductors have conducted in the citizen singer guild: Franz Lachner , Konrad Max Kunz, Max Zenger , Joseph Rheinberger and Richard Trunk . Poets and composers such as Felix Dahn , Martin Greif and Richard Strauss were honorary members.
Bavaria anthem
Among the works created for the BSZ, the best known today is the song "Gott mit dir, du Land der Bayern", sung in the guild for the first time on December 15, 1860, and since 1964 the Bavarian anthem , the state anthem of the Free State of Bavaria . The member of the BSZ, the teacher Michael Öchsner , had composed the text, and the conductor of the BSZ, Konrad Max Kunz, who was his friend, had created the melody as well as movements for a large orchestra, for various instrument accompaniments and for a four-part choir. The original sentences were thought to be lost until a few years ago. In 1995 the archivist of the BSZ, Johannes Timmermann , discovered the oldest notes of the anthem in the BSZ archive. In 1996, the great symphony movement of the hymn by the choir and orchestra of the BSZ was heard again in the autumn concert on the occasion of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the constitution of today's Free State of Bavaria for the first time in well over a hundred years. Since then, the BSZ and the Bavarian State Association for Homeland Care have worked together on the Kunz versions. But many other works by Kunz could also be rediscovered, some of which have already been included in the program of the BSZ choir and orchestra.
activities
In addition to singing, composing and making music, the BSZ maintains the history of the BSZ and its valuable archive.
Every year the BSZ organizes several public concerts, one of them in the Carl Orff Hall of the Gasteig in Munich. Concert tours are held at irregular intervals. So the BSZ participated in the millennium celebration ("Festival of Bavaria") in 2000 in Regensburg . In July 2001 a concert tour was carried out to Schwandorf , the birthplace of Konrad Max Kunz. In the summer of 2002 the choir and orchestra performed Carl Orff's Bernauerin together with the Theaterverein in Alling .
In 2008, the BSZ took part in the Munich city birthday and, under the patronage of Christian Ude, brought the history of the 1st city foundation festival in 1858 to life again with a ceremony in the Künstlerhaus.
As part of social events, e.g. For example, in the club's own Waldheim Haar or in the Künstlerhaus in Munich , members recite poems they have written or entertain with other performances.
Once a year the BSZ celebrates its birthday, the “Foundation Festival”, in the style of old guild rituals. On this occasion, members gather with family and friends in appropriate surroundings, formerly e.g. B. in the great hall of the Munich Hofbräukeller , currently in the ballroom of the Münchner Haupt for a festival, at which the new members ("apprentices") usually introduce themselves with a self-written poem, which is answered accordingly by the speaker. At the Free Singers' Day , all members are free to use their own works to attract the public's favor. Here, too, the spokesman comments on all contributions.
The BSZ provides information about itself and its activities in a club magazine, Der Merker , which appears twice a year .
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