Hannoverscher Oratorienchor

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Hannoverscher Oratorienchor
Seat: Hanover / Germany
Founding: 1802
Genus: mixed choir
Website : hannoverscher-oratorienchor.de

The Hannoversche Oratorienchor is the oldest civil music association in the state capital Hanover . The registered association is one of his more year 200 as a history of the most traditional concert choirs in Germany .

history

19th century

The history of the Hanoverian Oratorio Choir goes back to the beginning of the 19th century, when in 1802, during the so-called " French era ", citizens of the city of Hanover founded the Singakademie and made their debut in March of the same year with Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation .

The Royal Court Theater , built by Laves until 1852 , under whose court conductor the choir was directed until 1892; Photo by Karl F. Wunder , around 1900

During the court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves for Ernst August and the royal capital of the Kingdom of Hanover nor the Royal Court Theater built, the club was renamed in 1850 in "New Singing Academy" which since 1866, the year of annexation of Hanover by Prussia , as now "Sing - ”and“ Music Academy ”worked together with the now Prussian Royal Court Theater and until 1892 was also under the direction of the respective court conductor .

In the meantime, after the Singakademie merged with the Langesches Gesangsverein in 1867, it was renamed the Hannoversche Musikakademie . In the same year the Bach Society, named after Johann Sebastian Bach , was integrated into the Music Society .

For the first time in 1892, the Hannoversche Musikakademie received its own artistic direction again.

20th century

After interruptions in performances during the Second World War, for which the National Socialists were responsible, and the associated destruction during the air raids on Hanover , the music academy was able to begin reconstruction as early as 1945 with the approval of the British military authorities , especially by the then managing director Erich Wiese .

After the music association was given its current name in 1951, it was the conductor Fritz von Bloh who formed the Hanoverian Oratorio Choir into an ensemble with supraregional resonance . In 1972, under von Bloh, the oratorio choir was honored as the “municipal choir”, a title the choir shares with the Hanover boys 'choir and the Hanover girls' choir .

On the 60th anniversary of the so-called “ Reichspogromnacht ”, the Hanoverian Oratorio Choir performed together with numerous other choirs under the direction of Andor Izsák in 1998 under the title “The silent song. The music of the destroyed synagogues ”in the Hanover University of Music and Theater and elsewhere.

21st century

The celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the founding in 2002, for which an extensive commemorative publication documenting the history of the choir was published, was accompanied by a series of festival concerts and a trip by the choir to Prague and South Bohemia .

Again under Andor Izsák, the Hannoversche Oratorienchor performed together with the Hamburg Synagogal Choir on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the city of Oświęcim in a concert on January 26, 2005 in the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in the Polish city of Krakow .

In 2008 the choir toured France with Peter Francesco Marino and performed the Carmina Burana with local musicians .

Under Stefan Vanselow's artistic direction, from 2013 to 2015 - together with the girls' choir and the Johannes Brahms Choir Hanover - they collaborated with the NDR Radiophilharmonie at concerts at the start of the season in the Kuppelsaal and at the Lower Saxony State Broadcasting House , for example the Hanover Proms . In 2015 he said goodbye with the world premiere of the Whitsun oratorio “From the Spirit of Diversity” by Matthias Drude , which was accompanied by a photo-audio project about the refugee accommodation Ahlem.

Musical director

After the music association had been headed by the respective Hanoverian court orchestras under changing names until 1892, these followed

Other personalities

  • The long-time chairman of the Hanover Music Academy was the architect, urban planner and building writer Theodor Unger (* 1846; † 1912)
  • Diliana Michailov , the qualified conductor assisted the choir director Stefan Vanselow from 2012 to 2015

Publications / discography

  • 150 years of the Hannoverscher Oratorienchor eV, formerly the Hannoversche Musikakademie (32 pages, illustrated), Hanover: Schrader, 1952
  • Hannoverscher Oratorienchor 1802–1962. 10 years Fritz von Bloh as artistic director. 10 years of collaboration with the Volksbühne Hannover (28 pages, illustrated), Hannover: Ohle & Kahlert, 1962
  • The song fell silent. The music of the destroyed synagogues. On the 60th anniversary of the “Reichspogromnacht” , CD plus booklet (27 pages, illustrated), [Hanover]: Hanover University of Music and Theater [u. a.], 1998
  • Hannoverscher Oratorienchor. 1802–2002 , illustrated commemorative publication for the 200th birthday (29 pages with one CD ), Hannover: Eigenverlag, 2002
  • Concert on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the city of O'swiecim, Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic - Krakow, January 26, 2005 , CD (12 works), 2005

Web links

Commons : Hannoverscher Oratorienchor  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Hugo Thielen : Hannoverscher Oratorienchor. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 265; online through google books
  2. ↑ a b c Carolin Hempel, Barbara Ripke-Seehawer (Responsible): History ( Memento from November 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the hannoverscher-oratorienchor.de page
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Napoleonic Wars. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 459f.
  4. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Operhaus. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 175ff.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Capital function (s). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 274
  6. ↑ Proof and details about the joint library network (GBV)
  7. ↑ Proof of the GVK
  8. ↑ http://www.peter-marino.de/
  9. ↑ https://www.hannoverscher-oratorienchor.de/images/PrgHefte/201505MozartBrahmsDrude.pdf
  10. ↑ Carolin Hempel, Barbara Ripke-Seehawer (responsible): Artistic director / Stefan Vanselow ( Memento from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the hannoverscher-oratorienchor.de page
  11. ↑ Stefan Vanselow: Vita , stored long-term in the version from May 11, 2015
  12. ↑ Helmut Knocke: UNGER, Theodor Louis Ferdinand. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 367; online through google books
  13. ↑ Carolin Hempel, Barbara Ripke-Seehawer (Responsible): Assistance / Diliana Michailov ( memento from November 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the version from November 20, 2014 saved