Wiener Schubertbund

Wiener Schubertbund
Seat:	Vienna
Founding:	1863
Genus:	Male choir
Founder:	Franz Mair
Head :	Fritz Brucker
Voices :	50 (TB)
Website :	http://www.schubertbund.at/

The Wiener Schubertbund is an Austrian male choir .

Foundation and development

Commemorative plaque of the Wiener Schubertbund (1923) on the “Schubert Tower” in Vienna-Erdberg (III., Landstrasse, Erdbergstrasse 17-19), where Schubert lived in 1816 and where his Prometheus cantata D 451 was premiered

The choir was founded by the former choirmaster of the Viennese male choir association Franz Mair in November 1863 in the inn “Zur neue Welt”, in Vienna, Kärntnerring 86, with the name “Lehrersängerchor Schubertbund”. In 1870 the name was changed to "Schubertbund" and in 1922 to "Wiener Schubertbund". The Vienna Konzerthaus has been the seat of the choir since 1918 .

The repertoire focuses on the songs of Franz Schubert, but works by Mozart, Bach, Lehár, Richard Strauss and others are also performed. Recently, modern pieces from the fields of musical, rock and pop have also been arranged.

The first trip abroad took place in 1884 to southern Germany, the last one took the association to the following countries: USA (1999), China (2001), Syria (2002) and Brazil (2006). On October 24, 2004 the choir gave a concert in Geneva in the Palais des Nations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of CERN .

On January 6, 2009 the choir performed the oratorio “ The Messiah ” by Handel in the original English version in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein together with the Japanese Festival Chorus . The conductor was Hiroshi Koizumi.

Fritz Brucker has been the musical director since 2001.

Honorary members of the choir

Honorary Choirmaster

Franz Mair, Ernst Schmid, Adolf Kirchl , Viktor Keldorfer , Leo Lehner and Heinrich Gattermeyer (1923–2018)

Honorary members

Franz Grillparzer , Anton Bruckner , Peter Rosegger , Ottokar Kernstock , Wilhelm Kienzl , Richard Strauss , Ignaz Seipel , Karl Seitz , Helmut Zilk , Franz Lehár , Julius Patzak , Ferdinand Rebay , Reinhold Schmid and Hans Gillesberger

Discography

• Schubertiade.
• Selected choral works.
• Choral works − Wiener Schubertbund and his friends.
• Wiener Schubertbund on tour. (from the choir trip to the USA).
• Shards of travel. Recording of the recital in Villach on October 25, 1999.
• Cecilienmesse by Charles Gounod.
• From Bach to Beatles. 200 years of Austrian and German music. 140 years of the Wiener Schubertbund founded in 1863.
• See the Christkindl.
• Wiener Schubertbund. Private edition. "The best from 2003 to 2006".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ki3.at/bezirksinfo_ge_bau_37.htm
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 25, 2016 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. 

literature

• Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 152.
• Christian Fastl: Schubertbund, Vienna (WSB). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .

Web links

• Sixth n.a. Federal Singers Festival in Baden on June 28, 1885 .. In:  Badener Bezirks-Blatt , July 2, 1885, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
• The Wiener Schubertbund in Baden. In:  Badener Zeitung , June 6, 1924, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
• Franz Schubert and the Wiener Schubertbund .. In:  Badener Zeitung , September 25, 1926, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).