Swabian Choir Association

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The Swabian Choir Association e. V. is an umbrella organization for the care of choral singing. Its seat is Stuttgart .

history

Appointment of the Stuttgart collegiate church organist Konrad Kocher as an honorary member, 1871

On November 25, 1849, 27 singers' associations from Württemberg held a meeting in Göppingen to discuss the future of the singing festivals. The most important decision was:

"The wreaths of songs from Swabia unite to jointly cultivate folk song and thus popular education and a German spirit to form a general Swabian choir."

At the meeting on November 24, 1850, the statutes were established and the Swabian Singers' Association (SSB) was founded. Until then, 58 associations were members.

During the First World War, up to 70 percent of the choir singers were called up. Therefore, singing was often not possible. During the Weimar Republic, the number of members increased again and so the introduction of Gauen as a sub-organization was necessary. In the course of the Gleichschaltung, the Swabian Singers' Association had to submit to the Nazi regime in 1933 . After the Singers 'Association was dissolved by the Allies after the Second World War, three new singers' associations were founded in Württemberg. The Swabian Singers Association and the Singers Association of South Württemberg-Hohenzollern merged in 1952 to form the Swabian Singers Association 1849 e. V. together, the Baden-Württemberg Singers' Association is still independent today.

In the years that followed, the SSB grew to become the second largest amateur choir association in Germany in 1849. The Federal Assembly in 2008 decided to change the name to Schwäbischer Chorverband e. V.

The association is a founding member of the Landesmusikverband Baden-Württemberg e. V. , is a member of the Baden-Württemberg State Music Council, the Singing with Children Foundation and the German Choir Association . He represents around 66,000 active choir singers and 95,000 supporting members in 1,600 associations.

organization

The management of the Swabian Choir Association is incumbent on its democratic organs, these are:

  • The Choir Association Day
  • The Choir Association Advisory Board
  • The Bureau
  • The music advisory board
  • The Executive Presidium

The President of the Swabian Choir Association has been Dr. Jörg Schmidt . The chairman of the music advisory board is Marcel Dreiling.

The association divides its area into 24 choir associations / districts. These are:

  • Choir Association Danube Busses
  • Choir Association Enz
  • Choir Association Filder
  • Choir Association Friedrich Schiller
  • Choir Association Friedrich Silcher
  • Heilbronn Choir Association
  • Hohenlohe Choir Association
  • Hohenstaufen Choir Association
  • Johannes Kepler Choir Association
  • Choir Association Karl Pfaff
  • Choir Association Kniebis-Nagold
  • Choir Association Ludwig Uhland
  • Choir Association Otto Elben
  • Choir Association Region Kocher
  • Black Forest-Baar-Heuberg Choir Association
  • Choir Association Ulm
  • Zollernalb Choir Association
  • Eugen Jaekle Choir Association
  • Hermann Hesse Choir Association
  • Upper Swabian Choir Association
  • Singers' circle Middle Neckar
  • Association of Stuttgart Children's and Youth Choirs
  • Wilhelm Hauff Choir Association Stuttgart
  • Zabergäu Singers Association

Choir youth

In 1989 the Swabian Choir Association founded its own youth choir in 1849. The choir youth takes care of the interests of the young people in the Swabian Choir Association, as well as the training of students to become choir pilots and choir mentors. With the Festival of Young Choirs Open Sound , which takes place every year at a different location of the choir association, the youth choir has created a national music event. The chairman of the youth choir has been Johannes Pfeffer since 2014.

Events

The Swabian Choir Association organizes events and seminars, choir competitions, training for choir directors and advanced training for singers, including in the interdisciplinary area. In 2009 the Swabian Choir Association held its 40th choir festival with over 10,000 participants in Heilbronn.

The Swabian Choir Association maintains the Silcher Museum in Schnait. The museum was founded in 1912 in the house where Silcher was born.

Famous pepole

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwäbischer Chorverband (Ed.): Accountability report . December 31, 2017.
  2. ^ Statutes of the Swabian Choir Association
  3. ↑ Cooperations as a basis for survival on NMZ.de
  4. ^ Silcher Museum ( Memento from August 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on Silcher-Museum.de

literature

  • Angelika Hauser-Hauswirth in 150 Years of the Swabian Choir Association - Silberburg-Verlag 1999

Web links

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