Saturday, 12/14/2024
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Albert Greiner, Otto Jochum: Ein Augsburger Weihnachtssingen

Its final form was achieved through the "Weihnachtssingen der Augsburger Singschule" over nearly two decades: In the winter of 1914, Albert Greiner, the founder and then director of the Augsburg Singschule, initiated a large nativity play in the Dominican Church, in which the biblical Christmas events are presented in a popular manner through text, image, and music in five scenes. The choral and instrumental arrangements of the Christmas singing are written, in close collaboration with Albert Greiner, by the composer Otto Jochum, who was still working as a teacher at the Augsburg Singschule at that time and became Greiner's successor as director of the Singschule in 1933. A cantata with 22 sacred folk songs for soloists, mixed choir, children's choir, chamber orchestra, and organ is created. In 1931, the Christmas singing was performed again in Augsburg and published in 1932 by the Augsburg publishing house Anton Böhm & Sohn under the title "Ein Weihnachtssingen der Augsburger Singschule." In 1985, it was performed again after a long break by the Bavarian-Swabian Choir Association and has since been heard during the Advent season in various churches in southern Germany, especially in Bavarian-Swabia. The vocal pieces are now divided among several choirs (children's, women's, men's, and mixed choir), which alternate and perform together from different locations in the churches (altar area, gallery, side niches), enhancing the atmosphere and special appeal of this Christmas singing. For this work in its current form, composer Franz R. Miller, a student of Otto Jochum, created the "Concerto Pastorale" as a sort of "prelude" to the "Weihnachtssingen," in which the instruments of the orchestration of the Christmas singing are used, complemented by percussion (triangle, glockenspiel, xylophone) and horn. By adding preludes and transitions and some new orchestrations for the orchestral version through Franz R. Miller, who also integrated suggestions and wishes from the long-time overall director of the Christmas singing Wolfgang Reß, the version of the "Augsburger Weihnachtssingen" was created.

Participants:
Martina Hellmann, organ
Orchestra "Sinfonia Augustana"
Youth Choir "Augustana" (Conductor: Dominik Uhrmacher) and Children's Choir "Augustana" (Conductor: Martina Hellmann) of the Mozartstadt Augsburg Singing and Music School
Philharmonic Choir Augsburg (Conductor: Wolfgang Reß)

Overall Direction: Wolfgang Reß

Program:
Franz R. Miller: Concerto Pastorale for Chamber Orchestra
Albert Greiner, Otto Jochum: Ein Augsburger Weihnachtssingen

Admission: 30 minutes before the event begins

Tickets available at the box office

We thank our sponsors and partners:
Concert 14.12.2024, St. Georg, Augsburg: Stadtsparkasse Augsburg, Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH
Concert 15.12.2024, Church of Divine Providence, Königsbrunn: VR Bank Augsburg-Ostallgäu, Cultural Office Königsbrunn

Admission: 3:30 PM

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