Wiener Singverein

Wiener Singverein
G. Mahler : Symphony of a Thousand - Vienna Singing Society - Slovenský filharmonický zbor - Vienna Boys' Choir - Staatskapelle Berlin - Pierre Boulez Golden Hall (2009)
Seat:	Vienna
Carrier:	Wiener Musikverein
Founding:	1858
Head :	Johannes Prince
Voices :	~ 240 (SATB)
Website :	http://www.singverein.at/

The Wiener Singverein (officially: Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien ) is the concert choir of the Wiener Musikverein with around 240 active members.

prehistory

1812 was in the Winter Riding School of the Vienna Hofburg , the Handel - Oratorio Timothy or the power of the music listed, an event that a significant impulse establishing the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna showed. The first choir activities of the music association go back to Antonio Salieri's initiative. In August 1817, a choir school was founded with 24 pupils of both sexes, which were directed by Philipp Korner and Joseph Frühwald, who taught the choir members according to the method of the cathedral music director Joseph Preindl (head: Vinzenz Hauschka ). The first performance of the Musikverein choir took place on May 3, 1818 in the Great Redoutensaal . On May 7, 1824, this choir was also involved in the Vienna premiere of the Missa solemnis and the world premiere of the 9th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven in the Court Opera in the Kärntnertortheater .

history

The founding date of the choir in its current form is 1858. The first chief conductor until he moved to the Vienna Court Opera was Johann von Herbeck . The series of world premieres, in which the Singverein played a key role, ranges from Franz Schubert (the Singspiel The Conspirators , the musical drama Lazarus ), Brahms ( A German Requiem ), to Anton Bruckner ( Mass in F minor , Te Deum ), Gustav Mahler ( 8th Symphony ) and Franz Schmidt ( The Book with Seven Seals ), to composers from the second post-war period such as Gerd Kühr , Christian Muthspiel , Arvo Pärt , Wolfram Wagner and Otto M. Zykan . The important Viennese premieres included u. a. 1866 La damnation de Faust and various other works by Berlioz , 1898 Quattro pezzi sacri by Verdi and 1964 Benjamin Britten's War Requiem under the direction of the composer, with Peter Pears and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the solo parts.

Since it was founded, the Singverein has been a partner of important conductors, including Franz Schalk , Wilhelm Furtwängler , Dimitri Mitropoulos , Karl Böhm and Leonard Bernstein . From 1947 to 1989 Herbert von Karajan shaped the profile of the choir and made the Wiener Singverein world famous through recordings and concert film productions on laser discs . In 1957 the Wiener Singverein was one of the winners of the Karl Renner Prize of the City of Vienna.

There have been concert tours to Australia, Japan and the USA; further concerts and a. in Israel, Athens, Berlin, Budapest, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Pisa, Rome and Zurich, also in 1959 a performance of the Bruckner-Te Deum in the Vatican and in 1985 that of Mozart's coronation mass at a high mass with the Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica under the direction of Karajan.

Choir directors

Johann Herbeck's choir directors include Johannes Brahms , Ferdinand Grossmann , Reinhold Schmid , Helmuth Froschauer and, since 1991, Johannes Prinz .

Conductors, orchestras and honorary members

More recently, the Wiener Singverein u. a. Alain Altinoglu , Leif Ove Andsnes , Giovanni Antonini , Christian Arming , Daniel Barenboim , Jiří Bělohlávek , Bertrand de Billy , Herbert Blomstedt , Michael Boder , Andrey Boreyko , Pierre Boulez , Rudolf Buchbinder , Semjon Bytschkow , Riccardo Chailly , Myung-Whun Chung , Christoph von Dohnanyi , Gustavo Dudamel , Christoph Eschenbach , Vladimir Fedoseyev , Ádám Fischer , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , James Gaffigan , Daniele Gatti , Valery Gergiev , Gustavo Gimeno , Alois Glassner , Leopold Hager , Daniel Harding , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Martin Haselböck , Manfred Honeck , Jakub Hrůša , Kristjan Järvi , Paavo Järvi , Mariss Jansons , Philippe Jordan , Wladimir Jurowski , Dirk Kaftan , Kirill Karabits , Ton Koopman , Emmanuel Krivine , Markus Landerer , Fabio Luisi , Sir Charles Mackerras , Guido Mancusi , Wayne Marshall , Zubin Mehta , Cornelius Meister , Ingo Metzmacher , Riccardo Muti , Andris Nelsons , Jonathan Nott , Andrés Orozco-Estrada , Eiji Ōue , Seiji Ozawa , Krzysztof Penderecki , Andris Poga , Markus Poschner , Georges Prêtre , Sir Simon Rattle , Yutaka Sado , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Michael Schønwandt , Tugan Sochijew , Juri Temirkanow , Christian Thielemann , Lorenzo Viotti , Marcello Viotti , Bruno Weil , Franz Welser-Möst , Johannes Wildner and Robert Zelzer .

Among the Vienna orchestras that continuously perform with the Singverein are the Vienna Philharmonic , the Vienna Symphony , the RSO Vienna , the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria , the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and, for the first time, the Concentus Musicus Vienna at the anniversary concert of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in November 2012 .

Among the foreign orchestras are u. a. the Berliner Philharmoniker , the Staatskapelle Berlin , the Bavarian State Orchestra , the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , the Capella Leopoldina , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra London , Orchester de Paris , Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchester National de France , the Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse , the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra , the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Orchester philharmonique du Luxembourg , the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic , the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , the Philharmonic Orchestra Osaka , the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra , the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio , the St. Petersburg Philharmonic , the Orchestra of the Mariinsky theater , the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra , the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar , the Giovanile Luigi Cherubini Orchestra , the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House .

Honorary members of the choir include a. Igor Stravinsky , Herbert von Karajan, Franz Welser-Möst, Wladimir Fedossejew, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Thomas Angyan .

Jubilee 2008

The anniversary season 150 years Wiener Singverein (2008) was u. a. with a concert tour to Moscow (ceremony with the Missa Solemnis in Tschaikowski conservatory ), a ceremony and a joint concert with the Wiener Singakademie committed in both the music club building and in Konzerthaus the Requiem by Hector Berlioz sounded. The last anniversary concerts took place in Amsterdam and Vienna, together with the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam under Mariss Jansons, four performances of Antonín Dvořák's Requiem op.89 and finally a Leonard Bernstein concert and a festive mass with Cardinal Christoph Schönborn with the performance of Beethoven's mass in C major op.86 in St. Stephen's Cathedral .

The 2009/10 season began u. a. with a concert tour to Japan, where concerts with Haydn's Creation and Brahms' Requiem took place in the Izumi Hall in Osaka . On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the book with seven seals was performed again under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt . On the occasion of his 85th birthday, Pierre Boulez conducted concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Singverein; The song of the night (Symphony No. 3, op. 27) by Szymanowski and the Symphonie de psaumes by Stravinsky and the Glagolitic Mass ( Glagolská mše ) by Janáček were heard . In addition, Christian Thielemann called the choir for the first time to perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony in the entire cycle of Beethoven symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic. The Singverein was also involved in the Vienna Summer Night Concert 2010, which the Philharmonic gave in the park of Schönbrunn Palace and which was broadcast live by ORF and internationally on 3sat , with the performance of Otto Nicolais Mondchor from the Lustige Frau von Windsor . After two performances of Arthur Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher in the Brucknerhaus in Linz and in Vienna - with the RSO under Bertrand de Billy, Johanna Wokalek , Peter Matić , Herbert Lippert and the Vienna Boys' Choir - the choir has also performed this work with the Salzburg Boys Festival at the Felsenreitschule . It was de Billy's last concert as chief conductor of the RSO, with Jeanne playing Fanny Ardant . In addition, the Singverein performed Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's cantata The First Walpurgis Night ( MWV D 3 ) at the Grafenegg Music Festival .

2010 to 2019

To celebrate the centenary of the world premiere of Mahler's 8th Symphony ( Symphony of a Thousand ), in which the Singverein was involved in September 1910, the choir, along with the Munich Philharmonic Choir and the Tölzer Boys Choir, was invited to participate in the Philharmonie im Gasteig , which Performances took place under the direction of Christian Thielemann in October 2010.

For the year 2011 u. a. Concerts with works by Olivier Messiaen , Shostakovich and Mahler under Ingo Metzmacher, Bruckner's E minor Mass and choral works by Benjamin Britten , John Stainer , Henry Balfour Gardiner and Peter Planyavsky as well as a Bach-Handel program rehearsed under Johannes Prinz. For the first time appearances took place under the direction of Cornelius Meister and Gustavo Dudamel, who conducted a performance of Mahler's 2nd Symphony (Resurrection Symphony ) at the Salzburg Festival .

The anniversary concerts on the occasion of the celebration of 200 years of the Musikverein 2012 included a. in May and June 2012 a performance by Antonio Salieri's choirs under Riccardo Muti as well as the Gurre-Lieder by Arnold Schönberg under Zubin Mehta, with the participation of the men's choir of the State Opera and the Vienna Chamber Choir .

At the invitation of Vladimir Fedoseyev and under his direction, Honegger's Le Roi David was performed on September 30, 2012 in Moscow and at the same time broadcast in a live stream recording . At the end of October 2012 the Singverein performed again under Christian Arming and Alois Glaßner with sacred works by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert in Osaka (Japan).

For the first time, the choir sang works by Mahler, Mozart and Herbert Willi under Manfred Honeck .

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the performance in 1812, the Singverein performed Handel's Timothy or the violence of music under Nikolaus Harnoncourt's musical direction together with the Concentus musicus as a gala concert by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde on November 28 and 29, 2012 .

After the Singverein had participated in the Viennese premiere of Berlioz ' La damnation de Faust under the direction of the composer on December 16, 1866, the "Dramatic Legende" was heard again at its eleventh production on February 22, 2013 under Tugan Sochijew.

At the end of the anniversary season, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, a soloist ensemble and the Singverein under Ingo Metzmacher performed Bruckner's Mass in F minor on April 27, 2013 in the mass celebrated by Cardinal Schönborn in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .

At the invitation of Cecilia Bartoli and with her as a soprano soloist, the Singverein was a guest at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2013 and sang Brahms' German Requiem under Daniel Barenboim on May 20th . The Singverein performed with Carole Alston in a gospel concert in June 2013 . He also took part in the Graz premiere of the Gurre-Lieder in the opera house there . Again, the Singverein performed under Gustavo Dudamel in the performance of Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand at the 2013 Salzburg Festival and sang for the first time in the Cánkarjev dóm in Ljubljana .

Two concerts with works by Mahler and Verdi took place in the Wolkenturm at the music festival in Grafenegg under Orozco-Estrada.

In November 2013, the Wiener Singverein made a guest appearance again with the Vienna Philharmonic in the Vatican Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.

For the first time since 1979 a guest performance in Tokyo - and before that in Kawasaki - took place in Suntory Hall : The Vienna Philharmonic's Beethoven cycle ends with the 9th Symphony . The concert, conducted by Christian Thielemann, will be broadcast on Japanese television.

In the winter and spring of 2014 there were concerts in Vienna (with works by Josef Rheinberger , Charles Gounod and Mahler) as well as guest performances in the Philharmonie Luxembourg ( A German Requiem ) and in Aix-en-Provence (Bach's St. John Passion in the Grand Théâtre de Provence ) instead of. At the Salzburg Festival in 2014, the Choral Society under Barenboim offered with Plácido Domingo as soloist and the Vienna Philharmonic, the Requiem of Max Reger is. Furthermore, the choir sang u. a. Dvořák's Stabat mater (under Fedossejew), Schubert's Lazarus (under Metzmacher) and Verdi's Requiem (under Riccardo Muti). In December 2014 the Singverein interpreted the a cappella choir Friede auf Erden von Schönberg and, for the first time in its history, the Stabat Mater by Francis Poulenc . It joined Stabat Mater by Szymanowski, the Glagolitic Mass by Janáček and the Messa di Gloria by Giacomo Puccini on. On May 8, 2015, the Singverein took part in the Festival of Joy organized by the Austrian Federal Government on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Europe from Nazi terror. It was performed under the direction of Philippe Jordan with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the soloists Michaela Kaune , Anke Vondung , Burkhard Fritz and Gábor Bretz Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Ode to Joy .

The last two projects of the season were the participation in the third act of Richard Wagner's Bühnenweihfestspiel Parsifal with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (with Klaus Florian Vogt , Georg Zeppenfeld , James Rutherford and Ursula Müller ) and Mahler's 3rd Symphony under Mariss Jansons in the Musikverein and in the Milan Scala . In August 2015, the Singverein was involved in the opening of the Grafenegg Festival, and Orff's Carmina burana with Daniela Fally and Michael Volle performed under Orozco-Estrada, who directed the Tonkünstler .

In October the Singverein sang for the first time under Manfred Honeck Franz Schmidt's book with seven seals (which Johannes interpreted by Christian Elsner ). The choir also took part in two concerts by the Cleveland Orchestra (with Mahler and Verdi programs). The original version of Rossini's Petite Mass , with only piano and harmonium accompaniment, was performed in the Liszt Center in Raiding .

The concert under Simon Rattle with the Berliner Philharmoniker (Beethoven's 9th Symphony) on November 14th was dedicated to the memory of the victims of the attacks in Paris the day before.

Under Mariss Jansons has been with the Vienna Philharmonic again Symphony of Psalms presented. On January 27, 2016, the Singverein under Fedosejew took part in the performance of Alfred Schnittke's Faust cantata for the first time . As part of the Musikverein cycle “Wiener Singverein”, the choir appeared in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias under Daniele Gatti. At the end of February 2016 the Singverein was invited to a concert tour to Japan and gave concerts in Nagano , Osaka and Tokyo. On March 24th the guest performance with Verdi's Requiem followed in Luxembourg, for the first time under the local new chief conductor Gustavo Gimeno. On April 9, the Singverein (together with the Vienna Boys' Choir and the RSO under Cornelius Meister) performed Britten's Spring Symphony for the first time .

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Johannes Prinz as choirmaster of the Singverein, the choir developed an a cappella program for the concert on April 24th based on the concept of Prinz and Joachim Reiber , in which Johanna Wokalek and Michael Heltau in particular with readings for “Heart Thoughts” topic emerged. Wolfram Wagner's choral work Verirrt was premiered as part of the program . Works by Brahms, Debussy, Fauré, Alberto Favero, Gastoldi , Holst , Liszt / Reiter , Mahler , Pizzetti , Seiber and Richard Wagner / Gottwald were also heard. On May 8, 2016, the Singverein took part both in the Musikverein in the performance of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony (conductor: Zubin Mehta, Vienna Philharmonic) and in the Festival of Joy on Heldenplatz in Vienna. Here, under Christoph von Dohnányi with the Vienna Symphony and Thomas Hampson, Arnold Schönberg's A Survivor from Warsaw was interpreted, in which the male choir of the Singverein sang the Schma Yisrael .

Berlioz's Requiem was performed under Sokhiev and Mahler's Third Symphony under Philippe Jordan. The choir also took part in the federal government's farewell party for President Heinz Fischer in the Burgtheater .

On July 1, the choir made its first guest appearance at the Rheingau Festival in Eberbach Monastery , where it performed Beethoven's Missa solemnis under Orozco-Estrada with the Hessian Radio Orchestra .

The first concert of the 2016/17 season in Grafenegg was a performance of the Ode to Joy under the new chief conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra, Yutaka Sado, which was recorded for ORF and Japanese television. Subsequently, a DVD recording of Brahms' German Requiem was made under Welser-Möst with the Cleveland Orchestra in St. Florian . The first concert in Vienna was Josef Gabriel Rheinberger's eight-part a cappella mass in E flat major on October 2, 2016 in St. Stephen's Cathedral. Under Philippe Jordan, Verdi's Requiem was performed with the Wiener Symphoniker . Performances of Luigi Cherubini's Requiem in C minor , which the Singverein had already performed in 1873 under Johannes Brahms, followed with the Vienna Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti .

New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic 2017 - Moonrise

Orozco-Estrada conducted Rossini's Stabat mater with the Symphony Orchestra and was made an honorary member of the choir on December 12th.

In 2017, the Singverein performed for the first time in a New Year's concert by the Vienna Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel . The moonrise from the third act of the opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor was performed by Otto Nicolai , founder of the Philharmonic Concerts of the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra in 1842 (Vienna Philharmonic).

Under Michael Schønwandt there were in January 2017 with the Tonkünstler NE in Vienna and St. Pölten three performances of Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius with David Butt Philip in the title role. In March there was a concert performance of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte under Tugan Sokhiev with Ferruccio Furlanetto in the title role. There were also two concerts with fragments from Tchaikovsky's second opera Undina under Vladimir Fedoseev. With the RSO, the Psalmus Hungaricus by Zoltán Kodály was heard under Jakub Hrůša .

In March and April Beethoven's 9th Symphony was performed twice (in the Musikverein under Dudamel and at the Easter Festival under Thielemann) and the Missa solemnis (under Orozco-Estrada), followed by Haydn's Creation with the Vienna Academy. At the end of May the choir sang for the first time under Daniel Harding and with the Orchester de Paris Mahler's Resurrection Symphony (solos: Christiane Karg and Wiebke Lehmkuhl ). On the occasion of the Long Night of the Churches 2017, the Singverein sang in the Augustinerkirche u. a. Zoltán Kodály's Missa brevis .

The Wiener Singverein performed for the first time in the Gewandhaus Leipzig under Herbert Blomstedt and sang A German Requiem by Brahms with the local choir , the Gewandhausorchester and the soloists Siobhan Stagg and Michael Nagy . This is the first time that two of the choirs that participated in the world premieres have played together.

With the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, the Singverein was active on 19/20. October 2017 in a scenic / cinematic version of Leoš Janáček's Smart Little Vixen , which Yuval Sharon directed. The performance was repeated in a concert version on October 28th in the Philharmonie Luxembourg.

Herbert Blomstedt, Singverein, Gewandhausorchester, NHK-Hall Tokyo

On October 23, the Singverein made a guest appearance with the Gewandhausorchester, Nagy and Hannah Morrison under Blomstedt at the Philharmonie de Paris , where Brahms' Requiem was on the program. The same program was then presented in the Wiener Musikverein and on a Southeast Asia tour. At its first concerts in China, the Singverein performed Mozart's and Brahms' Requien together with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra under Andris Poga in the Shanghai Philharmonic (soloists: Ana Durlovski , Olesya Petrova, Benjamin Bruns , Dietrich Henschel ). At the concerts in Tokyo, Brahms's Requiem was performed again under Blomstedt in the NHK Hall and the version of the work arranged by Heinrich Poos with solos, choir, two pianos (Pawel Markowicz, Thomas Schnabel) and timpani under Johannes Prinz .

From December 17 to 20, 2017, four performances of Mahler's Symphony of the Thousand took place in the Musikverein and in St. Pölten. For the first time in its history, the Singverein took on the role of the first choir, the Slovak concert choir that of the second, and the Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen the children's voices. Catherine Foster , Heidi Melton , Sunhae Im , Theresa Kronthaler , Kelley O'Connor , Robert Dean Smith , Jochen Schmeckenbecher and Günther Groissböck sang under the direction of Orozco-Estrada .

From January to March 2018, the Singverein presented works by Giacinto Scelsi ( Konx-Om-Pax under Philippe Jordan), Gottfried von Eine ( An die Nachgeborben under Markus Poschner ) and Mahler's 3rd Symphony (under Thielemann). In April 2018, Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony with the Tonkünstler and Yutaka Sado was heard, with Ruth Brauer-Kvam as the narrator and the soprano Carolyn Sampson . During the guest performance of the Berliner Staatskapelle under Barenboim, there were several Debussy programs ( Trois Nocturne , La Damoiselle élue and Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien ), and Beethoven's Ninth was performed in May under Nelsons and Welser-Möst.

The opening of the concert season in Grafenegg was helped by the Singverein with the Tonkünstler and the Boys' Choir: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem was heard under the direction of Yukari Saito and Yutaka Sado (solo parts: Anna Samuil , Christian Elsner, Lucas Meachem ). Under the direction of its honorary member Fedosejew and with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Singverein performed the choral version of the 1812 overture for the first time on September 30, 2018 .

In October 2018, the Singverein's men's choir performed for the first time with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic under Juri Temirkanow (bass soloist: Petr Migunov ) with Babi-Yar von Shostakovich . He then performed with the program at the Philharmonie Essen and the Philharmonie Luxemburg .

This was followed by concerts with Lélio von Berlioz, also premiered in Vienna by the Singverein in 1912 , who was also recorded for a CD production with Philippe Jordan, the Symphoniker and Ingrid Marsoner (Lélio: Markus Meyer , Horatio: Cyrille Dubois , Räuberhauptmann: Florian Sempey ). There was also Britten's War Requiem under Jordan and with the soloists Werner Güra and Thomas Hampson as well as the Symphoniker . With the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler's Resurrection Symphony was performed under Semyon Bychkov . After Handel concerts with the Vienna Academy in the Musikverein and in Linz under Haselböck, Mozart's Requiem with the Vienna Philharmonic under Orozco-Estrada followed in the Salzburg Mozart Week in January 2019.

At the end of February 2019, the cantata Alexander Newski by Sergei Prokofjew under Altinoglu followed.

Recent audio recordings (CD or DVD)

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 - Ode to Joy (Vienna Philharmonic - Christian Thielemann) - DVD
• Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish" (Tonkünstler Orchester Lower Austria - Sado)
• Johannes Brahms - A German Requiem (Cleveland Orchestra - Franz Welser-Möst)
• Antonín Dvořák - Requiem (Concertgebouw Orchestra - Mariss Jansons)
• Gottfried von Eine - song of the hours (Vienna Philharmonic - Franz Welser-Möst)
• Handel / Mozart / Mosel - Timotheus or the violence of music (Concentus Musicus Wien - Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
• Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 - Resurrection (Vienna Philharmonic - Gilbert Kaplan)
• Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 - Resurrection (Vienna Philharmonic - Pierre Boulez)
• Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 3 (Bavarian State Orchestra - Zubin Mehta)
• Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 3 (Vienna Philharmonic - Boulez) - awarded the Grammy 2004
• Otto Nicolai - Moon Choir from The Merry Wives of Windsor (Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn 2010, Vienna Philharmonic, Welser-Möst)

(and as part of the New Year's Concert 2017 - Gustavo Dudamel)

• Gioachino Rossini - Petite Messe solennelle (recorded May 2013 - Orchester National de France - Daniele Gatti)
• Robert Schumann - Manfred - Drama Music (Tonkünstler Orchester Lower Austria - Bruno Weil)
• Franz Schmidt - The Book with Seven Seals (Vienna Philharmonic - Harnoncourt)
• Franz Schmidt - The Book with Seven Seals (Tonkünstler Orchester NÖ - Kristjan Järvi)
• Karol Szymanowski - Symphony No. 3 - Lied der Nacht (Vienna Philharmonic - Boulez) - ECHO Klassik for the symphonic recording of the year 2011
• Richard Wagner - Tristan and Isolde - duet scenes ( Deborah Polaski , Johan Botha , RSO Vienna - Bertrand de Billy)

literature

• August Böhm von Böhmersheim : History of the singing club of the Society of Music Friends in Vienna  - Internet Archive Vienna 1908.
• Albrecht Claus: History of the singing society of the Society of Friends of Music 1858-1933 . Vienna 1933.
• Gottfried Möser (Ed.): Festschrift 125 years of the Singverein of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna (1858–1983) . Vienna 1983 (Text: Desiree Hornek / Chronicle: Rudolf Toncourt).
• Kristin Stejskal: The Singing Association of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna: the structure of an amateur choir in a professional music business , Vienna University of Music , diploma thesis 2002, 157 sheets, graph. Darst.
• Gottfried Möser: The Singing Association of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna; his story with a special presentation of the years 1933 to 2000 . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna , 2003.
• Gottfried Möser: The choir in Vienna in the second half of the 20th century . Diss. University of Vienna, 2004.
• Joachim Reiber : Wiener Singverein - People Voices Götterfunken - Residenz Verlag , St. Pölten 2007.
• Peter Boeckmann: Memories of and about Herbert von Karajan from someone who was there . Berger publishing house, Horn / Vienna 2011.

Web links

Commons : Wiener Singverein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Wiener Singverein , accessed on May 30, 2017
• Membership lists for the years 1858–1908

Individual evidence

1. ^ Illustration of Handel's Alexander Festival (Timotheus) in the winter riding school .
2. ↑ Timothy in the winter riding school on November 29, 1812. ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 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. 
3. ^ Wiener Zeitung , May 9, 1818, No. 105, front page
4. ↑ Max Auer: Anton Bruckner, His life and work . Vienna 1932, pp. 250–53. See also the following article in Musikfreunde magazine , April 2013
5. ↑ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, December 13, 1957, sheet 2454
6. ^ The winners of the Karl Renner Foundation . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 14, 1957, p. 2 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
7. ↑ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, January 11, 1958, page 38
8. ↑ The presentation of the Karl Renner Prizes . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 12, 1958, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
9. ↑ The state television broadcaster of Venezuela broadcast a television recording of the concert.
10. ↑ The recording of the Moscow concert of September 30, 2012 (sung in French with Russian interludes) is available at the following address ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. available in the network. 
11. ↑ Festival of Joy - Trailer on Youtube.
12. ↑ Otto Nicolai: Moonrise
13. ↑ New Year's Concert: The program for 2017 has been set . diepresse.com, November 15, 2016; Retrieved November 18, 2016.
14. ↑ The program for the New Year's Concert 2017 has already been set . In: Tiroler Tageszeitung , November 15, 2016; Retrieved November 18, 2016.
15. ^ Herbert Blomstedt Sage Radical
16. ↑ Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem , November 13, 2017, concert under Blomstedt in the NHK-Hall Tokyo.
17. ^ Choral finals of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony , Vienna Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann. TV recording April 2010.