Vienna Men's Singing Association

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Vienna Men's Singing Association
Seat: AustriaAustria Vienna
Founding: 1843
Genus: Male choir
Founder: August Schmidt
Head : Antal Barnas
Website : Homepage

The Wiener Männergesang-Verein is an Austrian choir that has existed since 1843 . Antal Barnas has been the choirmaster since 2005 .

history

Foundation and development

The choir was founded by August Schmidt , the publisher of the Allgemeine Wiener Musikzeitung , on October 6th, 1843 in the inn "Zum golden Löwen" (today Vienna 3, Am Heumarkt 13), not far from today's Wiener Konzerthaus . The club first appeared in public on Sunday December 17, 1843. At the Great German Singing Festival in Nuremberg in 1861, he was awarded the honorary prize in valuation singing .

The first choir masters were Anton M. Storch and Gustav Barth from 1843 to 1851. Xaver Meyer directed the choir from 1976 to 1987, and from 1990 to 2003 Gerhard Track .

Nicholas Dumba

From 1865 to 1872, the industrialist and musician Nikolaus Dumba headed the Vienna Men's Singing Association. After Johann Strauss (son) had composed his most famous waltz On the beautiful blue Danube as a choral waltz for the carnival table of the men's choir, which has been held regularly since 1857, its first performance took place in Mardi Gras in 1867 in the Dianasaal on the Danube Canal . In the same hall, on February 13, 1870, the Male Choir Association launched the New Vienna Choral Waltz (op. 342), which Johann Strauss dedicated to Nikolaus Dumba, a dedication of which Dumba was proud of his entire life. The second waltz part of this work also has echoes of Franz Schubert (No. 1 from Sechzehn Deutsche op. 33, D 783/1), whose original manuscripts Dumba had acquired.

At that time, Dumba also held the office of vice-president of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna . When Emperor Franz Joseph I donated a piece of land across from the Karlskirche to the society, the men's choir took part as one of the founding donors of the building built on the property, which is now called the Wiener Musikverein and opened in 1870. Even today the choir performs twice a year in its "Golden Hall".

Nikolaus Dumba left the choir 50,000 guilders to protect this "excellent, artistically sensitive association" from existential worries. He linked the request: "From time to time a musical performance should be organized in a church in memory of me". The tradition of the so-called "Dumba Masses", at which Franz Schubert's German Mass is usually performed, has been preserved to this day.

Postcard from the trip to Egypt in March / April 1905

Foreign appearances

The choir has also repeatedly undertaken choir trips abroad. In the spring of 1905, with the participation of the Schneiderhan board member, he took a trip to Egypt on the SS Galicia of Österreichischer Lloyd , which was specially prepared as a cargo ship for this trip. In April / May 1907 he traveled to the USA with SS Oceana (II) of HAPAG , where he was the first German-speaking choir a. a. appeared in New York, Philadelphia and Washington and also visited the US President Roosevelt .

150 years of the Vienna Male Choir Association

In 1993 the 150th anniversary of the men's choir was celebrated. A commemorative publication with musicological contributions on the history and impact of the Vienna Men's Choir was published. On September 17, 1993, Austrian Post dedicated a special stamp to the men's choir on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its existence .

Participation of the association at public events

Laying of the foundation stone
Monument revelations
Honors
World premieres

literature

  • August Schmidt , The Vienna Male Choir Association. Historical representation of his creation and work to celebrate his twenty-five year anniversary , Vienna 1868 ( digitized version )
  • Rudolf Hofmann, The Vienna Male Choir. Chronicle of the years 1843 to 1893 on the occasion of the fifty-year jubilee of the association , Vienna: Verlag des Wiener Männergesangverein, 1893, 651 pages ( digitized version )
  • [Rudolf Hofmann], Der Wiener Männergesang-Verein , in: Deutsche Kunst- und Musik-Zeitung , vol. 20, issue 19 of October 1, 1893, pp. 249-252 ( digitized ), issue 20 of October 15, 1893, P. 261f. ( Digitized version), issue 21 from November 1, 1893, pp. 277-279 ( digitized version ), issue 22 from November 15, 1893, p. 295f. ( Digitized version ), issue 23 from December 1, 1893, p. 311f. ( Digitized version ), vol. 21, issue 1 from January 1, 1894, p. 15f. ( Digitized version )
  • Karl Adametz, One Hundred Years of Vienna Men's Choir , Vienna 1942
  • Ilija Dürhammer , The Vienna Male Choir Association. A piece of Austrian cultural history , exhibition catalog, ed. from Museum Würth , Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1998
  • Elisabeth Anzenberger-Ramminger, Christian Fastl: Vienna men's singing association. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna Institute for Strauss Research (Ed.): Strauss Elementarverzeichnis. Thematic-bibliographical catalog of the works of Johann Strauss (son) . Verlag Hans Schneider, Tutzing, 1997, ISBN 3-7952-0813-0 , p. 544 (Volume 7).
  2. ↑ Vienna Men's Singing Club (ed.): 150 years Vienna Men's Singing Club from 1843 to 1993. Festschrift, Vienna 1993.
  3. ^ The Egypt trip of the Vienna men's choir association . in: Illustrierte Kronen Zeitung of March 23, 1905 ( ANNO digitalisat ).
  4. ↑ Heike Bungert: Festival culture and memory: The construction of a German-American ethnicity 1848-1914 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, p. 374.
  5. ^ Special stamp of the Austrian Post from 1993
  6. ↑ Unveiling of the Maria Theresa Monument. In:  New Free Press. Abendblatt , May 14, 1888, pp. 1–3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  7. ↑ Emperor's birthday. The festival concert of the men's choir. In:  Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung , August 18, 1888, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / waz