Singakademie Dresden

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Singakademie Dresden
Singakademie Dresden 2015
Seat: Dresden / Germany
Founding: 1884
Genus: mixed choir
Founder: Friedrich Oskar Wermann
Head : Ekkehard Klemm
Voices : 220 ( SATB )
Website : http://www.singakademie-dresden.de/

The Singakademie Dresden e. V. is an amateur choir in the Saxon capital Dresden . The term Singakademie borne by the choir since 1985th

To distinguish the Singakademie Dresden from the from the Dresden court organist Johann Anton thirty named and founded by him Dreyssigschen Singing Academy in Dresden who devoted himself from 1807 until its dissolution in 1930 of the nurturing of classical choral music. In addition, there was a mixed choir in Dresden since 1848, which since 1873 named itself after its founder, the composer Robert Schumann , Robert Schumannsche Singakademie, as well as a Volks-Singakademie.

prehistory

On June 16, 1884, the "Dresden Teachers Chant Association" was founded as a male choir. The first choirmaster was Friedrich Oskar Wermann , who was Kreuzkantor at the time and a highly regarded musician in the city. During the years under music director Hans Harthan (1894–1896) and Eugen Krantz (1896–1898), the repertoire was expanded from folk song and madrigal towards choral symphonic music . In 1909 the club had 663 members, of which 288 were active singers, divided into 53 first, 71 second tenors, 91 first and 73 second basses. In the following years the choir sang under the direction of Richard Strauss , Igor Stravinsky , Hermann Abendroth and Karl Böhm, among others .

Under the lieder master Fritz Busch (1923–1933), who was also general music director of the Dresden Semperoper , a ladies 'choir was added and a close collaboration with the Saxon State Orchestra developed , which still lives on today in traditional performances of Johannes Brahms' Requiem . After Busch was expelled by the National Socialists, among others Paul van Kempen and Hans Richter-Haaser were the song masters. There were also important choral symphonic performances during the time of National Socialism , for example Beethoven's Missa solemnis or in Prague under Joseph Keilberth the German cantata by Fidelio F. Finke (1941).

In 1946 there was a new beginning. All NSDAP members had to leave the choir, the choir board resigned and the choir began to work again under the name “Volkschor Dresdner Lehrer”. There were significant performances under Franz Konwitschny , Heinz Bongartz and Joseph Keilberth. The choir directors were Kurt Masur and Martin Flämig . The long tradition of performing especially Beethoven's 9th Symphony was taken as an opportunity in 1953 to rename the choir the Beethoven Choir Dresden .

Christian Hauschild took over the management in 1969. The choir director and music teacher at the Dresden Kreuzschule succeeded in rejuvenating the choir.

Renaming to Singakademie

It was renamed Singakademie Dresden in 1985, and a chamber choir and the children's choir were founded. An artistic collaboration with the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis was successful. With the oratorios voices of the peoples of Rainer Kunad (1983) and I ... Howdy thousand times ... by Wilfried Krätzschmar (1989) and the world premiere of Symphony No. 7 by Mikis Theodorakis and participation in the premiere of Pax questosa of Udo Zimmermann put the choir further accents.

In 1991 Hauschild went to Finland and was replaced by Hans-Christoph Rademann . The quality of the choir increased under his direction. Travels led to Hungary , Austria and Sweden . In 1999 Rademann joined the NDR choir in Hamburg , followed by Karsten Sprenger, who came to Dresden from the Suhl Philharmonic Choir. The chamber choir traveled with him to the USA in 2002. After a short interim period in 2003, bridged by Matthias Herbig's assistant, Ekkehard Klemm took over the management in 2004 , who came to Dresden from the Munich State Theater on Gärtnerplatz , where he worked as a conductor from 1996–2007. At the same time, he is professor of conducting at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden , directs the university symphony orchestra there and has also served as honorary president of the Association of German Concert Choirs (VDKC) since 2013 . From 2010 to 2015 he was rector of the HfM Dresden . In recent years, the individual choirs have traveled to the USA , Hungary, Austria, England and, in a joint project with the State Youth Orchestra of Saxony, to South Africa .

In addition to the large repertoire, the choir also plays rarely heard compositions as well as music from the 20th and 21st centuries. World premieres were the oratorios 3 in 1 by Ekkehard Klemm , Confessio saxonica by Manfred Weiss and in 2007 MenschenZeit by Lothar Voigtländer based on texts by Eugène Guillevic , Dresden premieres the 6th symphony by Awet Terterjan and the cantata for the Sunday after Christmas by Jörg Herchet . In contrast to the Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach , works by Reiko Füting , Wilfried Krätzschmar and Alexander Keuk were commissioned and premiered in the years 2011–2013 . On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the oratorio also premiered on November 9th with the music by Manfred Weiss and the text by Christoph Eisenhuth. Another focus is the works of Robert Schumann and composers from Dresden, such as the Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger , whose St. Luke Passion Klemm performed several times and recorded it on CD in 2009. The sacred summer music followed in 2015 . Other important composers of the 20th century are regularly on the program with works by Boris Blacher , Benjamin Britten , Edison Denissow , Arthur Honegger , Leoš Janáček , Zoltán Kodály , Frank Martin , Bohuslav Martinů , Günter Raphael , Arnold Schönberg and Karol Szymanowski . In recent years, a focus has been placed on world premieres by young composers.

The choir currently has around 220 members in the four sub-choirs, the large choir (focus on choral symphonic repertoire), the chamber choir (focus on baroque and modern choral symphonic and a cappella repertoire), the children's choir and the senior choir. The children's choir is directed by Claudia Sebastian-Bertsch, the senior choir by Robert Schad. Robert Schad is also the choir assistant, Katrin Klemm répétiteur of the Singakademie Dresden. Jana Hansel, Annekathrin Laabs and Egbert Junghanns work as voice trainers. The choir regularly promotes young soloists and conductors, among others. a. also in cooperation with the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council.

The Singakademie regularly gives concerts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle , the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen , with which there is just as close cooperation as with the Landesbühnen Sachsen , the Jena Philharmonie , Sinfonietta Dresden , the orchestra of the Academy of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden , the Dresden Kapellsolisten , the collegium 1704 from Prague and the Philharmonic Orchestra Plauen-Zwickau.

Name sequence

  • 1884–1945 Dresden teachers choir, since 1928 with a women's choir
  • 1946–1953 folk choir of Dresden teachers
  • 1953–1985 Beethoven Choir
  • 1985–1991 Singakademie Dresden, since 1985 with children's choir
  • since 1991 Singakademie Dresden e. V. (entry in the register of associations)

World premieres (from 1980)

  • 1982 Mikis Theodorakis , “ Axion Esti ”, folk oratorio , GDR first performance
  • 1983 Rainer Kunad , “Voices of the Nations”, oratorio, world premiere
  • 1986 Udo Zimmermann , "Pax questosa", oratorio, participation in the world premiere
  • 1989 Wilfried Krätzschmar , "... I greet a thousand times ... (Heimatlandscapes)", oratorio, world premiere
  • 2005 Edison Denissow , "Stilles Licht", first performance in Dresden
  • 2005 Awet Terterjan , 6th symphony, first performance in Dresden
  • 2006 Ekkehard Klemm , “3 in 1”, short oratorio, world premiere
  • 2006 Manfred Weiss , “Confessio saxonica”, oratorio, world premiere
  • 2007 Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz , Archaic landscape with healing mourning for strings, world premiere as part of a choir concert
  • 2007 Lothar Voigtländer , “MenschenZeit”, oratorio, world premiere
  • 2008 Jörg Herchet , cantata for the Sunday after Christmas, German premiere
  • 2009 Ekkehard Klemm , Psalms based on texts by Christoph Eisenhuth , world premiere of the version with baritone, choir and chamber ensemble
  • 2010 Josef Tal , Shape , first performance in Dresden
  • 2011 Reiko Füting , heights , composition after Kathleen Furthmann and Dieter Füting for soloists, choir and chamber orchestra, world premiere
  • 2012 Wilfried Krätzschmar , fragmentum for choir and orchestra, world premiere
  • 2013 Alexander Keuk , A drop, a sip in the heights based on texts by Hans Thill and Alexander Keuk, world premiere
  • 2014 Ekkehard Klemm , Jerusalem , based on texts by Christoph Eisenhuth for choir, cello, organ, jazz trumpet and percussion, world premiere
  • 2014 Ole Jana , Jan Arvid Preé , Hypothetical Causality for choir and orchestra, world premiere at the Dresden Music Festival
  • 2014 Manfred Weiss , Christoph Eisenhuth , oratorio on November 9th for solos, choir and orchestra, world premiere
  • 2015 Georg Katzer , Medea in Korinth , oratorio scenes based on a libretto by Christa and Gerhard Wolf , first performance in Dresden
  • 2016 Ekkehard Klemm , Ricercar a 5.9
  • 2016 Jörg Herchet , The Spiritual Year, Cantata II: On the Feast of the Birth of Christ - The Birth of Christ in the Heart; Cantata III: On the feast of the birth of Christ - The eternal birth of Christ
  • 2017 Reiner Bredemeyer , reports , based on texts by Heiner Müller , world premiere as part of the Dresden Music Festival
  • 2017 Jan Arvid Prée, in terra pax!
  • 2017 Maximilian Otto, Every year again ...
  • 2018 Alberto Arroyo, Le Temps en Ruines
  • 2018 Magdalena Buchwald, Psalm 58
  • 2019 Helene Scharfe (Dresden composer class): We don't need Santa Claus!
  • 2019 Hannes Kerda (Dresden composer class): Opposite Christmas
  • 2019 Jacques Bierbass (composer class Halle): The Lord is my Shepherd

Artistic director

literature

  • Markus Altmann and the editorial board: Festschrift 120 years Singakademie Dresden . Dresden 2004.
  • Association for the promotion of Dresden and tourism (publisher): Dresden and the Elbe area . Revised by Friedrich Kummer. Self-published by the association, Dresden o. J.
  • Annual and program booklets of the Singakademie Dresden 2004-2015. Self-published by the association, Dresden 2004-2015.
  • Kühne, Volkmar: Singakademie Dresden: 125 Years - A Historical Outline. Dresden 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Kummer, Association for the Promotion of Dresden and Tourism: Dresden and the Elbe Area 46
  2. ↑ https://singakademie-dresden.de/werke-ffekt/geschichte