Bach Choir Heidelberg

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Bach Choir Heidelberg
Seat: Heidelberg / Germany
Founding: 1885
Genus: Oratorio choir
Founder: Philipp Wolfrum
Head : Christian Kabitz
Voices : 80 ( SATB )
Website : www.bachchor-heidelberg.de

The Heidelberg Bach Choir is a traditional oratorio choir in the city of Heidelberg . In addition to baroque music , especially the work of Johann Sebastian Bach , the choir is dedicated to a wide range of choral literature through to contemporary works.

history

The Heidelberg Bach Choir was founded in 1885 by the then university music director Philipp Wolfrum "... to cultivate serious, particularly sacred music ...". Wolfrum's assistant Hermann Meinhard Poppen took over the direction of the choir in 1919. He led the choir through the Second World War until 1956. His successor was the church musician Erich Hübner , under whom the choir - in the Wolfrum tradition - increasingly performed contemporary works. Christian Kabitz has been the director of the choir since 1987 . Around four times a year the choir performs great works of choral literature together with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg as part of the Bach concerts. Concert tours have taken the choir to Sicily, Israel, the Ukraine and Shanghai, among others.

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