Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen
| Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Ludwigshafen / Germany |
| Founding: | 1924 |
| Genus: | Oratorio choir |
| Head : | Tristan master |
| Voices : | SATB |
| Website : | http://www.beethovenchor-lu.de/ |
The Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen is the oratorio choir of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein and is one of the choirs of the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. His repertoire consists of choral symphonic and oratorical works from all epochs.
history
A performance of the 9th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1924 together with the Palatinate Orchestra under Fritz Schmidt is considered to be the birth of the Beethoven Choir in Ludwigshafen. The roots of the choir can be traced back to 1921 when the municipal singing school established itself as a national madrigal choir.
In the following years the choir gave concerts regularly in Ludwigshafen and the surrounding area and finally became a municipal institution in 1949. Since then it has also operated under the name of the “Oratorio Choir of the City of Ludwigshafen”.
The choir took part in important urban events, including the inauguration of the concert hall in the Pfalzbau in 1968. Highlights of the choir's history were concert tours to Israel (1997) and Egypt (1999), the staged performance of the oratorio Paulus by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy for the 75th anniversary of the Beethoven Choir in 1999 as well as the oratorio Die Jahreszeiten by Joseph Haydn performed in cooperation with the Japanese choir DAIKU in 2010 .
The conductors of the Beethoven choir included Meinrad Poppen, Werner Kloor, Marcus Bosch and Klaus Arp . The choir is currently under the direction of Tristan Meister .
profile
The Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen consists of around 100 singers from Ludwigshafen and beyond. His repertoire ranges from the passions of Johann Sebastian Bach and oratorios by Georg Friedrich Handel to contemporary settings. Well-known works such as The Creation by Joseph Haydn and Puccini's Messa di Gloria , but also unusual compositions such as the Glagolitic Mass by Leoš Janáček or The Sacred Concert by Duke Ellington have been performed in recent years . In April 2018 the chamber music love song waltzes by Johannes Brahms were performed.
Concert partners of the Beethoven Choir have been nationally known soloists such as Hannah Elisabeth Müller or Michael Nagy . The choir works regularly with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Philharmonie Baden-Baden.
The choir wants to open 2020, also the 250th year of birth of the namesake Ludwig van Beethoven, with the Missa solemnis .
Web links
- The Beethoven Choir on the official website of the city of Ludwigshafen
- "Tristan Meister new director of the Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen", Bürstädter Zeitung of March 27, 2017
- Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen
- Conductor Tristan Meister
Individual evidence
- ^ Beethoven Choir Ludwigshafen on the official website of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Uwe Engel: Love songs instead of oratorio. In: The Rhine Palatinate . April 17, 2018, accessed February 5, 2019 .
- ^ All concerts of the Beethoven Choir since 1924
