Dreyssigsche Singakademie

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Dreyssigsche Singakademie was a mixed choir in Dresden . It existed from 1807 to the 1930s.

history

Anton Dreyssig , organist at the Catholic Court Church , founded the Sing-Academie on March 5, 1807 with eight singers. He was supported by Christian Gottfried Körner , the father of Theodor Körner . The choir made its first public appearance on November 9, 1812 (before the Battle of the Beresina ) in the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden . Carl Maria von Weber wrote about this performance afterwards: “The classical masterpieces of Handel, Mozart, Haydn etc. were new to us and never heard before.” The choir had one of its biggest appearances in the summer of 1862 at the first festival of the German Singers Association in Dresden.

Under Johann Gottlob Schneider junior , the choir sang mainly oratorios by Georg Friedrich Händel , including Belshazzar (March 1844). Other works were The Creation (December 1813), The Seasons (1850) and Mozart's Requiem (1860). Beethoven's Missa solemnis was performed in Saint Petersburg and in the Bohemian Varnsdorf (March 1839). Richard Wagner performed Beethoven's 9th Symphony on Palm Sunday 1846 with the Singakademie . Adolf Reichel directed the choir from 1857 to 1867 and Gustav Adolf Merkel from 1867 to 1873.

Johannes Brahms was an honorary member, as was Ernst von Schuch .

literature

  • Theodor Seemann (Hrsg.): History of the Dreyssig'schen Singakademie in Dresden. For the 75th anniversary of the same (March 6, 1882). Beyl and Kaemmerer, Dresden 1882.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musica Migrans  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.musicamigrans.de  
  2. ↑ a b Monika Dänhardt and Kathleen Goldammer: How Dresden became the city of choirs . In: Saxon newspaper . January 24, 2015 ( paid online [accessed March 4, 2015]).
  3. ↑ The song festival . In: Friedrich Robert Ritzsche and Carl Robert Berger (eds.): The singer hall . for the singers' festival in Dresden. Dresden July 1865 ( slub-dresden.de [PDF; 1,2 MB ; accessed on March 4, 2015]).