Bach Choir Karlsruhe
| Bach Choir Karlsruhe | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Karlsruhe / Germany |
| Carrier: | Baden regional church |
| Founding: | 1905 |
| Genus: | Oratorio choir |
| Founder: | Max Brewer |
| Head : | Christian-Markus Raiser |
| Voices : | 110 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | www.bachchorkarlsruhe.de |
The Karlsruhe Bach Choir is the oldest and largest oratorio choir in the city of Karlsruhe . Specialized almost exclusively in oratorio works until 1996 , the choir is now also at home in modern choral literature.
history
The Bach choir was founded in 1905. The court church music director Max Brauer founded the Bach Society, whose choir comprised 80 members. The Bach Society survived many crises, it came to an end in 1938. Under strong pressure from the National Socialists , the Bach choir was to be merged into a municipal representative choir. It was decided to accept the offer of the cantor Wilhelm Rumpf: The Bach choir was "taken over" by the Baden regional church and had thus solved its financial problems, but also lost sovereignty over its own programming. Under the roof of the church, the choir survived the war.
Wilhelm Rumpf died in 1964, his successor Karlheinz Schmitt, who was choir director until 1995, performed two concerts a year with often baroque music. Christian-Markus Raiser has been the director of the choir since 1996 . The program is broad: Although Bach is still often played with pleasure , the staged performance of Bach's St. John Passion and concerts with music by Wolfgang Rihm or Krzysztof Penderecki demonstrate a significantly increased joy in experimentation.
Choirmaster
- 1905–1918: Max Brauer
- 1918–1923: Fritz Cortolezis
- 1923–1925: Heinrich Schmid
- 1925–1927: Franz Philipp
- 1926–1933: Josef Krips
- 1932–1964: Wilhelm Rumpf
- 1964–1995: Karlheinz Schmidt
- since 1996: Christian-Markus Raiser