Schubert Choir Timisoara
| Schubert Choir Timisoara | |
|---|---|
| Seat: |
|
| Founding: | 1969 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Head : | • Erich Koch • Herbert Weiss |
| Voices : | SATB |
The Schubert Choir Timișoara is a mixed choir that existed from 1969 to 1988 in the western Romanian city of Timișoara ( German Timişoara ) and was brought back to life in the Federal Republic of Germany on November 23, 1985 . The choir members are mostly members of the Banat Swabian ethnic group .
history
The German-speaking choral tradition in the Banat led to the foundation of the "Deutsche Liedertafel" (1856) and a men's choir (1862) in Timișoara. The “Schubert-Liederkranz”, founded there in 1924, took part in the 10th German National Singers Festival that same year along with around 200,000 German singers from Europe and overseas. The choral tradition came to a standstill during World War II and the post-war period .
At the time of the Socialist Republic of Romania , Nikolaus Berwanger , chairman of the district council of the working people of German nationality , campaigned for the establishment of a German-speaking choir to revive the singing tradition in the Banat. As a result, the Schubert Choir Timișoara was founded on February 20, 1969 in the ballroom of the Nikolaus Lenau Lyceum in Timișoara , with close reference to the "Schubert lieder wreath" which was dissolved in World War II .
The choir had around 80 members. The ensemble's repertoire included folk songs and sophisticated choral works by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Ion Vidu and Ciprian Porumbescu , Emmerich Bartzer , Richard Oschanitzky , Franz Stürmer , Viktor Loidl, Walter Michael Klepper and others. In the first ten years of its existence, the choir performed 125 times in front of around 55,000 listeners, 65 of which took place in Timișoara, 28 in Banat towns and ten in Transylvania . The choir took part in the big traditional costume festivals in Giarmata (German fair ) (1971) and Jimbolia ( Hatzfeld ) (1977). The "Swabian Show" was performed 27 times in the Timișoara State Opera . The steady decline in membership - caused by the relocation of many members and three choir directors together with many other Banat Swabians, mainly to Germany - led to the dissolution of the choir in Timișoara in 1988.
On November 23, 1985, 25 resettled choir singers followed Adrian Nucă-Bartzer's call to re-establish the choir in the House of the Danube Swabians in Sindelfingen and to continue the tradition of the Banat Singing Community in Germany with a parallel choir. In the 1990s the choir had 82 singing members. For reasons of age and due to the lack of young talent, the number of singers gradually decreased, so that in 2018 the choir consists of around 35 singers. He has one or two appearances a year, mainly in the context of events organized by the Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben from Romania e. V. In April 2003 a concert took place in the founding city of Timișoara. As in all the jubilee years from 1989 onwards, the choir under Nucă-Bartzer's direction also performed the jubilee concert "40 Years of Timisoara Schubert Choir" on June 20, 2009, this time in the Sudeten German House in Munich . Today the members of the choir live scattered in Germany; a circumstance that allows only a few samples a year.
literature
- Hans Gehl : Dictionary of Danube Swabian ways of life , entry Gesangsverein , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-51508-671-4 , p. 344
Web links
- Anton Potche: Singing against your own swan song , June 17, 2007
- Hans Gehl: Temeswarer impressions in spring 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Franz Metz (born 1955), musicologist In: Banat cultural area, personalities
- ↑ Consiliul Județean Timiș: VULPE, Damian. Muzicolog, profesor şi dirijor ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Romanian)
- ↑ a b c Hans Fink : Timisoara as the cultural center of the Banat Germans after the Second World War ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Section The Schubert Choir , 2010
- ↑ a b c Hans Gehl : Dictionary of Danube Swabian ways of life , entry Gesangsverein , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-51508-671-4 , p. 344.
- ↑ Walter Tonța: An unforgettable musical experience. ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Banater Post , October 26, 2012.
- ^ Schubert Choir Timisoara. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Banater Heide .
- ^ A b Hans Gehl : Can traditional folk culture survive despite integration?
- ^ Franz Metz : From song tables and choral societies in the Banat .
