Schaumburg fairy tale singer

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Schaumburg fairy tale singer
Seat: Bückeburg - Germany
Founding: 1949
Genus: Children's and youth choir
Founder: Edith Möller and Erna Pielsticker
Head : Nemanja Lukic
Voices : SATB
Website : http://www.maerchensaenger.de

The Schaumburg Fairy Tale Singers are a children's and youth choir founded in 1949 by Edith Möller and Erna Pielsticker in Obernkirchen . Many of its members in the early years were orphans .

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The amateur choir reached a high musical level soon after it was founded. He became world-famous in 1953 under the name Obernkirchen Children's Choir , when the choir sang the encore “The happy wanderer” (“ My father was a wanderer ”) after winning a choir competition in Wales . The BBC broadcast the concert and instantly made the song "The Happy Wanderer" popular worldwide. The recording was from January 23, 1954 for five weeks at number two in the UK singles charts and a total of ten more weeks in the top five. The success was also marketed in 1955 in the homeland film “ The happy wanderer ”, in which the Schaumburg fairy tale singers performed as a children's choir.

The folksong-like piece was composed by the brother of the choir director, Friedrich Wilhelm Möller , and is today a choral classic that has been translated into many languages. The influence of the BBC's international programming at the time made the song a worldwide hit overnight after the festival. For example, in 1955 the audience voted for the Carnival Roadmarch in Trinidad (protests by local musicians promptly led to a rule change in favor of calypso music for the following years).

This surprising success was followed by numerous international tours, appearances in TV programs such as the “Ed Sullivan Show” and in the homeland film “The Happy Wanderer”, which was specially written around the success, for the “Schaumburg Fairy Tale Singers”. In the 1950s the choir moved to its new home in Bückeburg .

In 1975 the Schütte Choir was founded from among the former members . After the death of the choir director Edith Möller, the “Schaumburger Märchensänger” music school was founded in 1976. The choir still relies on its popularity from the 1950s and strives for extensive youth work.

In 1980, the then incumbent choir director Denis Halikiopulos fell out with the music school management and founded the Schaumburg Youth Choir with most of his choir children , which for a long time retained the unusual division of soprano / mezzo-soprano / alto / bass of the earlier "fairy tale singers" and thus an exception among German youth choirs stayed.

The “fairytale singers ” under the direction of Friedrich-Wilhelm Tebbe switched to the SATB division, which made it possible to use other literature such as motets and cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms , masses by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert, and Perlen perform choral music from all styles and record it on CD. The Litaniae Lauretanae KV 109 by Mozart led Tebbe first in 1983 with the "Schaumburger tales singers" in northern Germany, where he, the publisher Breitkopf & Hartel was instrumental in the creation of the score. Concert tours to all EU countries, to Poland, Hungary and Yugoslavia, but also to the USA and Japan, led the “Schaumburg Fairy Tale Singers” to further international successes. Participation in over 50 television programs in Germany alone from 1980 to 1994 shaped the image of a choir that was always present in the media, which was also due to the fact that the “fairy tale singers” met world-famous artists such as Anneliese Rothenberger , Rudolf Schock and René Kollo , Theo Altmeyer , Dantes Diwiak , Hermann Prey , Gerd Nienstedt and Gunther Emmerlich combined to interpretations. With La Passeggiata by Gioacchino Rossini , the “fairytale singers” won second prize in the world-famous “Guido d'Arezzo Choir Competition” in 1985 under the name “Coro giovanile di Obernkirchen”. Sound carrier recordings from this time under the Europe label , especially the 137 children's songs by the youngest of the Schaumburg fairy tale singers , have been successful to this day with print runs amounting to millions.

For its part, the “Schaumburger Jugendchor” pleaded to preserve the true musical legacy of Edith Möller and Erna Pielsticker; and both choirs wore almost identical choir clothing except for shades of color. The "Bückeburg Singers' War" made headlines in local newspapers until the 1990s and continues to shape the history of both choirs to this day. Both singing schools exist in parallel to this day.

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