Don Cossack Choir

Don Cossack Choir is the name of various male choirs of Don Cossacks , most of which are active in exile and mainly maintain a repertoire of Russian folk music and folklore .

The most famous of these choirs was the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff , which existed from 1921 to 1979. If there were already several competing ensembles at the time of the existence of this choir, several successor ensembles were formed after the dissolution.

Well-known choirs

• Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff (first Don Cossack Choir ): Serge Jaroff, Michael Minsky, Wanja Hlibka
• Black Sea Cossack Choir (Boris Ledkowsky, Germany 1937 to today, Peter Orloff)
• Platoff Don Kosaken (1926–1972)
• Ural Cossack Choir (1924–1972, 1984–1992, again from 2004)
• Kuban Cossack Choir (founded in 1811 as a military choir by the Cossack Army)
• Volga Kosaken (Nikolai Tripolitoff, 1933 to the present day, Oleg Jewsewsky / Sascha Petrov, Germany)
• Don KosakenChor Russia
• Bolshoi Don Cossack
• Rostov Don Cossack Choir
• Tsarevich Don Cossack
• Don Cossack Maxim Kovalev

literature

• Volker Wieprecht and Robert Skuppin: "Don Kosaken Chöre". In: The Lexicon of Vanished Things . Rowohlt, Berlin 2009.

Web links

• Show business: Quaint with a fur hat , Der Spiegel , November 4, 1996