Eintracht Hasselbach
| Eintracht Hasselbach | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Hasselbach (Taunus) / Germany |
| Founding: | August 15, 1882 |
| Genus: | Male choir |
| Voices : | 20th |
| Website : | http://www.mgv-eintracht.de |
The MGV "Eintracht" is the oldest association in the Taunus village of Hasselbach, which has around 1000 residents . The founding date is handed down to August 15, 1882.
Through many years of collaboration with choirmasters such as Josef Neuheuser (1925–1947), Jakob Kraus (1952–1968) and Karl Kohlhof (1968–1989), the choir has built up a broad a cappella repertoire. Due to the different musical orientations, determined by the respective choir director, the singers always had new focuses. For example, in the time of the choirmaster Kraus, the focus in the selection of literature was on the popular opera choirs of Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Weber and Beethoven and others. a. Kraus' successor, music director Karl Kohlhof, on the other hand, was an advocate of modern choral literature: for the choir members a corresponding process of getting used to from the concert literature to contemporary musicians such as Cosett, Novak, Poos and Heinrichs etc.
During this time the association was chaired by today's honorary chairman Horst Heuser for over 30 years. Under his direction, the association opened up more and more to the outside world, for example more and more successful concerts and choir competitions. Today the association is chaired by Edgar Bargon.
"Eintracht" has hosted several large national choir competitions: 1977 with 44 participating choirs, 1982 with 47 choirs, 1992 with 31 and 2007 with 31 choirs and "Eintracht" is very active in public life: The choir, for example, took on the musical design the laying of the foundation stone of the Frankfurt Trade Fair Tower or helping to organize the celebrations on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Hochtaunuskreis. The choir gave concerts a. a. in France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Italy. In Rome the singers took part in a papal audience and organized a service in St. Peter's Basilica. The choir's concerts, most recently on the Day of German Unity, were sponsored by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art and the Hessian state government.
In 2007 the club celebrated its 125th anniversary; u. a. with a national choir competition in October 2007 with over 1,500 singers from Hesse, Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. The jury was made up of Professor Volker Hempfling and Arthur Groß.
Amateur acting has a very long tradition within club life: the era of Singspiel and theater began as early as the early 1930s.
Male choir
From 1989 to 2019 the choir was under the musical direction of Andreas Jung from Lindenholzhausen . After studying in Giessen and Frankfurt, he is the rector of the “Didactic Music Seminar” at the Limburg study seminar and is responsible for the training of trainee musicians. He has received national and international awards with his choirs. In 1994 he received a scholarship from the German Music Council (4th German Choir Competition in Fulda). Further training and master classes led him a. a. to Marktoberdorf (International Chamber Choir Competition) and to Sydney for the World Symposium of Choral Music (master classes with S. Parkman and Frieder Bernius ). Andreas Jung is Music Director of the Association of German Professional Choir Directors (FDB) and a member of the Working Group Music in Young People (AMJ)
Under the direction of Andreas Jung, the musical focus of the choir was on the romantic choral literature of composers such as Schumann , Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Silcher as well as Rheinberger , Smetana etc.
During the 30-year collaboration with Andreas Jung, the choir has participated in 38 national competitions. Thereby one faced about 120 competitors. The total of 40 jurors honored the choir with over one hundred - mostly first - prizes. In December 2019 Andreas Jung was appointed honorary choir director of "Eintracht" Hasselbach. The choir of "Eintracht" currently has 20 votes.