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Vexilla Regis (Bruckner)
''Vexilla regis'' (The royal banner), WAB 51, is the final motet written by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. History Bruckner composed it on 9 February 1892. The work, the manuscrit of which is archived at the ''Österreichische Nationalbibliothek'', is based on the Latin hymn ''Vexilla Regis'' by Venantius Fortunatus. It was first performed on Good Friday, 15 April 1892, and was published in the same year by Josef Weinberger, Vienna. In the Nowak-Bauernfeind new edition (Band XXI/29 of the ') the motet was re-issued with the revised text of the hymn and an additional 4-bar ''Amen''. Music Bruckner put strophes 1, 6 and 7 of the text in a motet of 108 bars in Phrygian mode for mixed choir ''a cappella''. Alike he did in ''Christus factus est'' WAB 11 and ''Virga Jesse'' WAB 52, Bruckner used the ' on the words ''prodeunt'' (bars 5–8), ''unica'' (bars 41–44), and ''Trinitas'' (bars 77–80). Although it is in Phrygian mode the motet is characterized by Bruck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Bruckner
Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. Unlike other musical radicals such as Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the man and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music. Hans von Bülow described him as "half genius, half simpleton". Bruckner was critical of his own work and often reworked his compositions. There are several version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virga Jesse (Bruckner)
''Virga Jesse'' (The branch from Jesse), Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckners, WAB 52, is a Motets (Bruckner), motet by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. It sets the gradual Virga Jesse floruit for unaccompanied mixed choir. History The work was completed on 3 September 1885 and may have been intended for the celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Linz diocese; however, like the ''Ecce sacerdos magnus (Bruckner), Ecce sacerdos magnus'' that Bruckner composed Ad maiorem Dei gloriam, A.M.D.G. for that event, it was not performed there. It was performed on 8 December 1885 in the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The original manuscript is archived at the ''Österreichische Nationalbibliothek'', and transcriptions of it at the ''Hofmusikkapelle'' and the Abbey of Kremsmünster. The motet was edited together with three other graduals (''Locus iste (Bruckner), Locus iste'' WAB 23, ''Christus factus est, WAB 11 (Bruckner), Christus factus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MDR Rundfunkchor
MDR Rundfunkchor is the radio choir of the German broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), based in Leipzig, Saxony. Dating back to 1924, the choir became the radio choir of a predecessor of the MDR in 1946, then called Kammerchor des Senders Leipzig, or Rundfunkchor Leipzig. The present name was established in 1992. The choir has appeared internationally, and has made award-winning recordings. History The origin of the later MDR Rundfunkchor was a choir called Leipziger Oratorienvereinigung (Leipzig oratorio association), that appeared first on 14 December 1924 in a broadcast of the (MIRAG) of Haydn's ''Die Schöpfung'', conducted by Alfred Szendrei. A 1931 broadcast featured a Leipziger Solistenchor (Leipzig soloists choir). The choir was renamed on 1 July 1934, as Kammerchor des Reichssenders Leipzig, when the broadcaster became Reichssender Leipzig. In 1934, the future choirmaster Heinrich Werlé appeared frequently as guest conductor. From 1935 to 1940, Curt Kretzschmar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Ahmann
Philipp Ahmann (born 1974) is a German conductor, especially known as a choral conductor. He has been the director of the NDR Chor from 2008 to 2018. Since 2020, Ahmann is the MDR Rundfunkchor's artistic director. Career Ahmann studied conducting at the Musikhochschule Köln with Marcus Creed. He began to work with radio choirs in 2005 and has worked with the SWR Vokalensemble, the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln and the Rundfunkchor Berlin. In 2008 he was appointed director of the NDR Chor in Hamburg and created a concert series of the choir. From 2013 to 2016, he was also first guest conductor of the MDR Rundfunkchor in Leipzig. He led recordings of the NDR Chor and the MDR Chor. As of January 2020, he is the artistic director of the MDR Rundfunkchor MDR Rundfunkchor is the radio choir of the German broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), based in Leipzig, Saxony. Dating back to 1924, the choir became the radio choir of a predecessor of the MDR in 1946, then called Kammerchor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petr Fiala
Petr Fiala (; born 1 September 1964) is a Czech politician and political scientist who has been the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic since November 2021 and leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since 2014. He previously served as the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports from 2012 to 2013. Prior to entering politics, he was the rector of Masaryk University. Fiala was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a non-partisan in the 2013 snap election. He became leader of ODS in January 2014, promising to reform the party and regain public trust after a corruption scandal involving Prime Minister Petr Nečas. Fiala's ODS finished a distant second place in the 2017 Czech legislative election, 2017 legislative election, and continued in the Parliamentary opposition, opposition despite multiple offers from the incoming Prime Minister Andrej Babiš to participate in his Executive (government), governing coalition. In 2020, Fiala led the initiative for a Centre-right p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan-Olof Stenlund
Dan-Olof Bertil Stenlund (born 25 October 1937 in Skellefteå) is a Swedish university professor and choir conductor. Life and work Dan-Olof Stenlund, was born in 1937 in Skellefteå, the son of the cantor Bertil Stenlund and his wife Esther Vikström. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm, piano, organ, cello and vocals and graduated as a church musician, accompanist and music educator, followed by studies in conducting with Eric Ericson, Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache. Stenlund took the position of professor of choral conducting at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen at the age of 36 years. He is also a teacher of choral conducting at the Music Academy in Malmö, and a member of the Royal Academy of Music. From 1961 to 1974 he was active as a church musician at Engelbrekt Church in Stockholm. As an internationally sought-after conductor and choirmaster taught Dan-Olof Stenlund at the State Academy of Music in Malmö and directs th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergen Cathedral
Bergen Cathedral ( no, Bergen domkirke) is a cathedral in the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. It is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Bjørgvin as well as the seat of the "Bergen domkirke" parish and the seat of the Bergen domprosti (arch-deanery). It is part of the Church of Norway. The first recorded historical reference to this church is dated 1181. It retains its ancient dedication to Saint Olaf. The cathedral seats about 900 people. History The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1181, when the peasant chief Jon Kutiza attacked King Sverre in Bergen. According to ''Sverris saga'', some of Sverre's men then fled into the church (then known as ''Olavskirken'' because it was dedicated to Saint Olaf). At that time, the church was probably a regular parish church, but later, during the reign of King Haakon IV of Norway (1217–63), Franciscan monks must have taken over the church and built a friary by it. The medieval cathedral wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnar Mangersnes
Magnar Mangersnes (31 October 1938 – 9 January 2023) was a Norwegian organist and choral conductor. Early and personal life Mangersnes was born in Radøy to Johannes Mikal Mangersnes and Maria Mosevoll. He married Kari Eli Mikkelsen in 1962. He graduated as teacher in 1962, and from the Bergen Musikkonservatorium in 1966. Career From 1971 Mangersnes was assigned Organist and Master of the Choristers ( no, domkantor) in the Bergen Cathedral. He established and conducted the choir from 1971. The choir was awarded Spellemannprisen in 1979 for the album ''Folketoner i glass og ramme''. He has conducted a number of choirs in the Bergen district, and received several awards, including Griegprisen Griegprisen (established 1972 in Bergen, Norway) is awarded by the «Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen» to a Norwegian musician, conductor or musicologist who in a special way have communicated the music of Edvard Grieg. It has also been awarded an ... in 1985. He was decorated Knight, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uwe Gronostay
Uwe Gronostay (25 October 1939 – 29 November 2008) was a German choral conductor and composer. Born in Hildesheim, he grew up in Braunschweig and was already organist of the Jakobikirche at age 15. He studied church music in Bremen and worked as church musician, organ teacher and freelance worker for Radio Bremen. In 1972 he was appointed director of the RIAS Kammerchor. He also conducted from 1982 to 2002 the , and from 1987 to 1998 the Nederlands Kamerkoor in Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar .... He was a professor of choral conducting in Frankfurt, later from 1989 and 2003 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. External links * * „Chordirigent und Chorerzieher von Rang – Uwe Gronostay ist tot“ Neue Musikzeitung-online, 2 December 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe (born 2 May 1947) is a Belgian conductor and choirmaster. Herreweghe founded La Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Gent and is renowned as a conductor, with a repertoire ranging from Renaissance to early Romantic classical music. He specialises in Baroque music, with a particular focus on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Early life Herreweghe was born in Ghent as the first of three children to Edward Raymond Frans (1919–2006) and Elza Maria Augusta Herreweghe (née van Herrewege; 1919–1976). He received his first piano lessons from his mother. In his school years at the University of Ghent, Herreweghe combined studies in medical science and psychiatry with a musical education at the Ghent Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompanist, was his piano teacher. Career In 1970, Herreweghe founded the Collegium Vocale Gent with a group of fellow students. Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Best (conductor)
Matthew Best (born 6 February 1957) is an English bass singer and conductor, especially of vocal music. He founded the ensemble Corydon Singers in 1973 and won the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 1981. From 1985, he was also a guest conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra. His recordings with Corydon Singers were made on the Hyperion Records label and focus on choral music by the likes of Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn. He is currently engaged as Music Director of the Academy Choir Wimbledon and as a Principal Study singing teacher at the Royal Northern College of Music. Discography Matthew Best founded Corydon Singers in 1973 which achieved recognition as one of the foremost choirs in Britain. Indeed, in a light-hearted article in ''The Guardian'' in 2002 on the potential for a connection to exist between the quality of football fans' singing and their team's performance, David McKie wondered whether "Bolton could yet excel even Southampton if they cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Jochum
Eugen Jochum (; 1 November 1902 – 26 March 1987) was a German conductor, best known for his interpretations of the music of Anton Bruckner, Carl Orff, and Johannes Brahms, among others. Biography Jochum was born to a Roman Catholic family in Babenhausen, near Augsburg, Germany; his father was an organist and conductor. Jochum studied the piano and organ in Augsburg, enrolling in its Academy of Music from 1914 to 1922. He then studied at the Munich Conservatory, with his composition teacher being Hermann von Waltershausen; it was there that he changed his focus to conducting, his teacher being Siegmund von Hausegger, who conducted the first performance of the original version of the Ninth Symphony of Anton Bruckner and made the first recording of it. Jochum's first post was as a rehearsal pianist at Mönchen-Gladbach, and then in Kiel. He made his conducting debut with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in 1926 in a program which included Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. In the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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