Wernigerode 2015 - Program Book
International Johannes Brahms Choir Festival and Competition July 15 - 19, 2015 | Wernigerode, Germany The man after whom the festival is named for, Johannes Brahms, and the German Romantics of the 19th century, will be a focal point. This event offers interested choirs excellent opportunities to learn together and refine their specialist skills with coaching concerts and rehearsals with recognized international choral experts. We explicitly invite choirs and ensembles of all kinds who prefer not to take part in competition but like to give concerts in Wernigerode and other regional communities. The festival will provide ample opportunities for groups to perform their repertoires to an interested audience, whether they are specialized in choral, orchestral or folk music. Wernigerode is a town with a very special flair. It is a gem of medieval architecture located on the foot of the low mountain range of the Harz. There is hardly any other town with so many magnificent semi-timbered houses – a feast for your eyes. And it is an excellent stage for the parade and opening ceremony and further open air events
International Johannes Brahms Choir Festival and Competition
July 15 - 19, 2015 | Wernigerode, Germany
The man after whom the festival is named for, Johannes Brahms, and the German Romantics of the 19th century, will be a focal point.
This event offers interested choirs excellent opportunities to learn together and refine their specialist skills with coaching concerts and rehearsals with recognized international choral experts. We explicitly invite choirs and ensembles of all kinds who prefer not to take part in competition but like to give concerts in Wernigerode and other regional communities. The festival will provide ample opportunities for groups to perform their repertoires to an interested audience, whether they are specialized in choral, orchestral or folk music.
Wernigerode is a town with a very special flair. It is a gem of medieval architecture located on the foot of the low mountain range of the Harz. There is hardly any other town with so many magnificent semi-timbered houses – a feast for your eyes. And it is an excellent stage for the parade and opening ceremony and further open air events
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Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)271880er Jahre / 1880s 15. Juni 1896 / June 15, 1896Johannes Brahms – born in Hamburg May 7, 1833, died in Vienna April 3, 1897 – is one of thetruly outstanding composers of the nineteenth century.In his own unique way he managed to apply compositional achievements of the past, such asthose found in Bach or Beethoven, to his own romantic epoch. In doing so he created music of thehighest artistic quality, characterized not only by a wholly individual style but also by extraordinaryversatility.With the exception of the field of opera, Brahms devoted himself to every genre. His instrumentalworks include four symphonies, four concerts, a large amount of chamber music, as well as numerousworks for piano and for organ.Not less important for him was vocal music. Along with his the more than 200 "lieder" he composedmany works for both female and male choirs, for mixed choir, some a cappella, and somewith small instrumental accompaniment or with full orchestra. It turned out to be one of thesechoral works with full orchestra, “A German Requiem” op. 45, which caused Brahms’ reputation torise in the estimation of his contemporaries to such an extent, that from then on he was regardedunequivocally as one of Europe’s foremost composers.Handschrift Brahms' „Es ist das Heil uns kommen her“, Motette, op. 29 - Nr. 1 /Brahms' handwriting of “Es ist das Heil uns kommen her”, Motette, op. 29 - Nr. 1
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