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Vienna Boys Choir
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The Vienna Boys’ Choir
is one of the oldest and most famous choirs in the world. Boys have been singing at the courts of the Habsburgs since at least the 14th century; the earliest reference to a boys’ choir at the Viennese court dates back to 1296.
In 1498, more than half a millennium ago, the future Emperor Maximilian I moved his court and court music from various residences to Vienna. In doing so, he laid the foundation for the Vienna Court Music Chapel and ultimately for the Vienna Boys’ Choir.
Today, there are 90 active Vienna Boys’ Choir members between the ages of nine and fourteen, divided into four boys’ choirs. Each choir spends nine to eleven weeks of the school year on tour, one trimester. Together, they give around 300 performances each year in front of almost half a million listeners. The Vienna Boys’ Choir tours nearly all European countries, as well as Asia and Australia, South and Central America, the USA and Canada.
Since 2004, there has also been the Vienna Girls’ Choir. This ensemble consists of 25 girls aged ten to fourteen. Since autumn 2024, they have attended the secondary school of the Vienna Boys’ Choir.
The girls’ choir gives its own concerts and occasionally performs together with their male colleagues, for example at the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert in 2023 or at the Mother’s Day concerts at the Vienna Musikverein.
Also taking part are Chorus Primus, the mixed children’s choir, and Chorus Juventus, the mixed youth choir.
Program and cast
The traditional Mother’s Day Concert of the Vienna Boys’ Choir in the Great Hall. Celebrate with the young singers the choir’s 100-year touring anniversary.
Vienna Boys’ Choir
Vienna Girls’ Choir
Chorus Primus
Chorus Juventus
Instrumental Ensemble
Erasmus Baumgartner, Musical Director
Niccolò Morello, Conductor
Stefan Foidl, Conductor
Kirlianit Cortes-Galvez, Conductor
Daniel Erazo-Muñoz, Conductor
PROGRAM
Mother’s Day Concert of the Vienna Boys’ Choir
A musical journey around the world
Musikverein Golden Hall
This building is located on Dumbastraße/Bösendorferstraße behind the Hotel Imperial near the Ringstraße boulevard and the Wien River, between Bösendorferstraße and Karlsplatz. However, since Bösendorferstraße is a relatively small street, the building is better known as being between Karlsplatz and Kärntner Ring (part of Ringstraße loop). It was erected as the new concert hall run by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, on a piece of land provided by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1863. The plans were designed by Danish architect Theophil Hansen in the Neoclassical style of an ancient Greek temple, including a concert hall as well as a smaller chamber music hall. The building was inaugurated on 6 January, 1870. A major donor was Nikolaus Dumba whose name the Austrian government gave to one of the streets surrounding the Musikverein.
Great Hall - Golden Hall
“As high as any expectations could be, they would still be exceeded by the first impression of the hall which displays an architectural beauty and a stylish splendour making it the only one of its kind.” This was the reaction of the press to the opening of the new Musikverein building and the first concert in the Großer Musikvereinssaal on 6 January 1870.
The impression must have been overwhelming – so overwhelming that Vienna’s leading critic, Eduard Hanslick, irritatingly brought up the question of whether this Großer Musikvereinssaal “was not too sparkling and magnificent for a concert hall”. “From all sides spring gold and colours.”
Brahms Hall
"In order not to promise too much it can be said that it has been made into the most beautiful, most magnificent, perfect example of a chamber concert hall that any of us knows in the world.” This was the reaction of a Vienna daily newspaper in October 1993 as the Brahms-Saal was presented to the public after extensive renovation work.
The surprise was perfect. It was a completely new hall. In contrast to the Grosse Musikvereinssaal, the Brahms-Saal had changed its appearance quite considerably over the years. When and how it acquired that slightly melancholy duskiness that was known to music lovers before 1993 cannot be precisely documented.
Glass Hall
As a venue for events from concerts to luxury banquets, the Glass Hall / Magna Auditorium is not only the largest of the Musikverein's 4 new halls but also the most flexible in terms of usage.
Hub podiums enable the smooth transformation of the concert hall into a conference centre, the cinema into a ballroom, or the stage into a catwalk. State-of-the-art equipment for sound, lighting, video and widescreen digital projection provide the ideal conditions for half-scenic productions.
The Glass Hall / Magna Auditorium was designed by the Viennese architect Wilhelm Holzbauer. With a height of 8 metres, the hall (including the gallery) can play host to up to 380 visitors.
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