Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Choir
| Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Choir | |
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| Seat: |
 Vienna
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| Founding: | 1927 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Viktor Maiwald |
| Head : | Seiji Ozawa |
| Voices : | 80 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | kv-staatsopernchor.at |
The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor is an Austrian mixed choir of classical music and is formed by members from the Vienna State Opera choir .
In 1927 a choir member of the Vienna State Opera, Viktor Maiwald, founded the Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Choir in order to provide the ensemble with stage presence outside of the house - based on the Vienna Philharmonic , which had already become independent from the Vienna State Opera Orchestra for its own external concerts in 1842 .
The choir is organized in self-administration and elects four board members, specifically a cashier, managing director, secretary and the board, as well as an extended board of eight representatives from the individual constituencies to represent their interests. who also perform representative tasks. Since its foundation, the concert association has also appointed its respective concert director from among conductors close to it. These include Karl Böhm , Claudio Abbado and three times Clemens Krauss .
The choir takes engagements for television productions, recordings and concerts. In particular, the intensive participation in several simultaneous productions at the Salzburg Festival may make it necessary to recruit substitutes who are selected for reinforcement after the audition selection process.
Concert directors
| Years | conductor | country | |
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| 1927 | 1931 | Franz Schalk |
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| 1931 | 1934 | Clemens Krauss |
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| 1935 | 1936 | Felix Weingartner |
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| 1936 | 1938 | Bruno Walter |
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| 1939 | 1945 | Clemens Krauss |
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| 1945 | 1947 | Josef Krips |
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| 1949 | 1954 | Clemens Krauss |
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| 1954 | 1981 | Karl Bohm |
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| 1987 | 2002 | Claudio Abbado |
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| 2002 | Seiji Ozawa |
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Discography (selection)
- Claude Debussy : Pelléas et Mélisande under the direction of Claudio Abbado
- Johannes Brahms : A German Requiem under the direction of Carlo Maria Giulini
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Requiem under the direction of Karl Böhm
- Richard Wagner : Lohengrin under the direction of Claudio Abbado
- Giuseppe Verdi : Un ballo in maschera under the direction of Herbert von Karajan
literature
- Andrea Harrandt: Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Choir . In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
Web links
- Works by the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor in the German National Library