Choir of the Leibniz University Hannover
| Choir of the Leibniz University Hannover | |
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| Seat: |
 Hanover / Germany
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| Founding: | 1947 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Ludwig Rutt |
| Head : | Tabea Fischle |
| Voices : | 80 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | www.chor.uni-hannover.de |
The Leibniz Universität Hannover choir is a mixed university choir consisting of students and staff from Leibniz Universität Hannover as well as singers from outside the university.
history
The choir started in 1947, when a student named Karl Heinz Westphal suggested the establishment of a mixed university choir. From 1949 Ludwig Rutt was director of the choir. In 1950 the choir gave itself a statute and went from an informal association to a constituted community. In 1989 Tabea Fischle took over the direction of the choir, which she still holds today.
The choir organizes at least one or two concerts every year and also performs in the university environment and in the Hanover region . These include B. the Herrenhausen Choir Days, the Fête de la Musique , the midsummer night of the choirs and participation in the Lower Saxony Choir Competition (2001 and 2009). In addition, there have been numerous concert tours in Germany ( Hamburg , Leipzig ) and abroad ( Rouen , Posen ) in the past , including appearances at the Settimana di Musica Sacra dal Mondo in Florence and Lucca in 2004 .
In addition to the entrance fees, the fee-free choir is mainly financed by grants from the university and the Leibniz University Society.
repertoire
The choir of the Leibniz Universität Hannover sings both a cappella and instrumentally accompanied works, which span the entire time span from Renaissance and early Baroque to modern and contemporary music . Larger projects in recent years have included B. the Christmas Oratorio and the St. John Passion by Bach , Judas Maccabaeus by Handel and the German Requiem by Brahms . Among the pieces of the 20th century repertoire includes works of composer Alfred Koerppen and Eric Whitacre .
The choir repeatedly cooperated with the university symphony orchestra. In April 2014, the two ensembles performed the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet in the atrium of the Welfenschloss together with other artists and students from the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . At the same location, the world premiere of Fredrik Schwenk's work “Among all possible ones…” took place in July 2016 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the renaming of the University of Hanover.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Benefit concert for the care of sick children In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . July 13, 2015. Accessed January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Herrenhauses Choir Days 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ^ Orchester e cori di giovani al festival della musica sacra In: La Repubblica . March 31, 2004. Accessed January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Report of Florence. March 30, 2004. Accessed January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Always new voices In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . January 7, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ^ Sections of the Leibniz Universitätsgesellschaft eV Retrieved on January 24, 2016.
- ↑ Ten years of Leibniz University Hannover ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release on the university website. July 1, 2010. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
