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Chorfest Magdeburg 2022 - Program Book

Internationales Chorfest Magdeburg October 5 - 9, 2022 Magdeburg, Germany A festival of international understanding Following the huge success of the European Choir Games and Grand Prix of Nations in 2015, Magdeburg – home city of Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann – will once again become a welcoming host for a dynamic and inspiring festival of choral music. The Chorfest Magdeburg, which has been successfully organized by the Choir Association Saxony-Anhalt for years, will be enriched with an international choir competition by INTERKULTUR to create an eventful international festival to connect local choirs with singers from all over the world. Competitions in different levels of difficulty, categories and settings as well as Friendship Concerts, possibilities for singing together and personal education leave nothing to be desired by the participating choirs. A variety of concert activities by the local choirs will make a valuable contribution to these opportunities. The “Internationales Chorfest Magdeburg” provides a platform for an active exchange of national and international choral music, new friendships and unique intercultural encounters.

Internationales Chorfest Magdeburg
October 5 - 9, 2022 Magdeburg, Germany

A festival of international understanding

Following the huge success of the European Choir Games and Grand Prix of Nations in 2015, Magdeburg – home city of Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann – will once again become a welcoming host for a dynamic and inspiring festival of choral music.

The Chorfest Magdeburg, which has been successfully organized by the Choir Association Saxony-Anhalt for years, will be enriched with an international choir competition by INTERKULTUR to create an eventful international festival to connect local choirs with singers from all over the world.

Competitions in different levels of difficulty, categories and settings as well as Friendship Concerts, possibilities for singing together and personal education leave nothing to be desired by the participating choirs.

A variety of concert activities by the local choirs will make a valuable contribution to these opportunities. The “Internationales Chorfest Magdeburg” provides a platform for an active exchange of national and international choral music, new friendships and unique intercultural encounters.

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MARIUS FELIX LANGE<br />

Komponist / composer<br />

Ihr Œuvre umfasst Opern, Orchesterwerke,<br />

Kammermusik, aber auch<br />

Filmmusik, also zum großen Teil Werke<br />

für professionelle Musiker*innen oder<br />

Ensembles. Was ist beim Komponieren<br />

für Laien- oder semiprofessionelle Chöre<br />

anders, gibt es überhaupt einen Unterschied?<br />

Natürlich wägt man bei jeder Note oder<br />

Phrase ab, ob diese vom Auszuführenden<br />

innerlich gehört und empfunden und somit<br />

auch ausgeführt werden kann. Dieses Abwägen<br />

findet aber auch beim Schreiben für<br />

sogenannte professionelle Ausführende<br />

statt. Davon abgesehen habe ich so gute<br />

Erfahrungen gerade mit Laien- und Kinderchören<br />

gemacht, dass ich mich kompositorisch<br />

nicht beschränkt habe, sondern<br />

so wie immer dem Werk gefolgt bin. Bei<br />

der Instrumentierung habe ich dann, soweit<br />

das möglich war, den Vokalparts aus<br />

der gewünschten Klanglichkeit heraus<br />

unterstützende Instrumente an die Seite<br />

gestellt.<br />

Your works include operas, orchestral<br />

works, chamber music, but also film music,<br />

which means for the most part works<br />

for professional musicians or ensembles.<br />

What is different about composing for<br />

amateur or semi-professional choirs, is<br />

there any difference at all?<br />

Of course, with every note or phrase one<br />

weighs up whether it can be heard and felt<br />

inwardly by the performer and thus also<br />

executed. But this weighing also takes<br />

place when writing for so-called professional<br />

performers. Apart from that, I have<br />

had such good experiences especially<br />

with amateur and children's choirs that I<br />

have not limited myself compositionally,<br />

but have followed the work as always. In<br />

the instrumentation, I have then, as far as<br />

possible, placed supporting instruments<br />

alongside the vocal parts out of the desired<br />

tonality.

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