Mainz Cathedral Choir

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Mainz Cathedral Choir
Seat: Mainz / Germany
Founding: 1866
Genus: Boys and men choir
Founder: Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler
Head : Karsten Storck
Voices : approx. 140 ( SATB )
Website : http://www.mainzer-domchor.de

The Mainz Cathedral Choir is a boys' and men's choir , which was founded in 1866 by the Mainz Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler .

history

Choir at the cathedral

Consisting of around 140 singers, the main task of the choir is to accompany and help organize the service . Progress is made in three rehearsals that are held each week in the modern choir at the cathedral, Nasengässchen.

Every year a small group of young singers is trained to participate in the musical work of the cathedral choir. After two weekly rehearsals in which basic knowledge is imparted, the introduction to the main choir takes place, in which the broad repertoire , partly consisting of works by Bach , Haydn , Mozart , Beethoven , Schubert and Bruckner , is learned.

In addition to concert tours to Italy , France , Belgium , Switzerland , Israel , Russia , the USA , Canada and Brazil , a number of CD recordings have been made that reflect the work of the cathedral choir.

In addition to musical activities, great importance is attached to social interaction . These include joint excursions to concerts, but also leisure activities offered by the Mainz Cathedral Choir.

The home of the choir is the Mainz Cathedral . At the beginning of the 1980s, an abuse scandal rocked the Mainz Cathedral Choir. Previous cases of sexual abuse have also been reported. The leadership, succeeding the pastor and cathedral music director Heinrich Hain (1934–2014), who retired in 1984 and supported by the musicologist and cathedral choirmaster Horst-Willi Groß as director of the choral school , was in the hands of cathedral music director Mathias Breitschaft from 1985 to 2012 .

Since August 2012 the previous cathedral cantor Karsten Storck has been the new Mainz cathedral music director.

Discography

  • Chants for the feast of St. Martinus: hymn “Fratres unanimes”, antiphon “O beatum pontificem”. Choralschola of the Mainz Cathedral Choir (conductor: Cathedral Cantor Horst Willi Groß), on: Horst Willi Groß and Heinrich Hain: Choralschola of the Mainz Cathedral Choir. Bells of the Mainz Cathedral. Page A, Orgelbau-Vleugels GmbH recording studio (= OV 42), Hardheim-Rügental 1976
  • Musica Sacra in the High Cathedral of Mainz. Mainz Cathedral Choir (conductor: Domkapellmeister Heinrich Hain), Mainz Cathedral Music (conductor: Heino Schneider), Pallas-Verlag, Diepholz o. J.
  • Wilhelm Petersen : Large Mass for 4 solo voices, choir, orchestra and organ op.27 , Wergo records, Mainz, 1992
  • Praise the Gentlemen - sacred choirs and festive sounds , BMG Ariola Hamburg, Munich, 1999
  • Sanctus , BMG Ariola Hamburg, Munich, 1999
  • Carl Orff : Carmina burana , Hr-Media, Frankfurt (Main), 2003

literature

  • Horst-Willi Groß: The Mainz Cathedral Choir. In: Musica sacra . Volume 5, 1975, pp. 315-317.
  • Mathias Breitschaft, Elmar Frey: Mainzer Domchor: 125 years. Schmidt & Bödige, Mainz 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Görlach: Crisis of the Catholic Church. The main thing is that the facade is in place. In: The time. No. 41, 2018.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Breidenbach: 1984 - Shadows over Mainz - DOM-CHOR 26 years ago two churchmen were sentenced to prison terms for child abuse . In: Allgemeine Zeitung. Mainz, March 9, 2010.
  3. ↑ Eleonore Bünin: Abuse debate. Temptation lurks in the song of the angels. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine , March 15, 2010.
  4. ^ Official Journal of the Diocese of Limburg: p. 76 (death report) .
  5. ↑ Horst-Willi Groß: Tonal structure and tonal relationship in masses and Latin motets by Orlando di Lasso. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1977 (= Frankfurt contributions to musicology. Volume 7).
  6. ↑ Choralschola of the Mainz Cathedral Choir ( DNB 353275506 )

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