Arnold Schoenberg Choir

The Arnold Schoenberg Choir (Arnold Schoenberg-Chor) is among the leading choral ensembles of Vienna, particularly known for some Baroque music recordings. It had been founded in 1972 by Erwin Ortner. Ortner, a Viennese who was simply a member from the Vienna Males’ Choir, graduated from your Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts, having analyzed musical pedagogy, sacred music, and orchestral performing with Hans Swarowsky and choral performing with Hans Gillesberger. Ortner as well as the chorus selected their name to honor Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) as an excellent Viennese-born composer. While Schoenberg was referred to as among the market leaders in musical modernism in the twentieth hundred years, usage of his name had not been intended to show a musical predilection. Actually, the chorus includes a wide-ranging repertoire that stretches from Renaissance to modern music. The choir is usually a completely professional organization manufactured from experienced singers, most of whom are college students or graduates from the Vienna University or college of Music and Performing Arts. The choir offers performed in operatic productions, including operas by Mozart, the hardly ever noticed Fierabras by Franz Schubert, and Olivier Messiaen’s Saint-François d’Assise. They often times perform in the Salzburg Event, Corinthian Summer time, the Vienna Event Week, Wien Moderne, as well as the Styriarte Graz. The Arnold Schoenberg Choir created a close operating relationship using the conductor and early music pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt. As well as Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus Wien they possess participated in lots of recordings of Classical and Baroque masterworks, like the comprehensive sacred music of Mozart, Bach’s Mass in B minimal, Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9, Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, operas by Handel, and Monteverdi’s Vespers. In 1996, Ortner aimed the choir in the entire secular choral music of Franz Schubert on seven discs, a discharge that gained the German Schallplattenkritik award, the French Diapason d’Or, and japan documenting academy’s grand award.