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The first keynote lecture of the conference \u201cChoral Life in Switzerland, 19th-21st Century\u201d<\/a> will be given by Professor Friedhelm Brusniak<\/a> (Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg, Germany).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below you can read the English summary of his talk (the lecture will be given in German).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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On the transition from the\u00a0Liedertafel <\/em>style to choral polyphony in the 19th and 20th centuries<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

On 6 June, 1903,\u00a0Kaiser Wilhelm II gave a memorable speech on \u201cThe German Folk Song\u201d\u00a0following the second \u201cKaiserpreissingen<\/em>\u201d singing competition for the trophy he had donated for the contest between Germanmen’s choirs. He criticized what he believed to be the wrong choice of repertoire for amateur choirs and inadequate performance standards forsingers in virtuoso choral works. As a consequence, he announced that a collection of \u201call folk songs\u201d that were \u201cwritten, sung, and known in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland\u201d would be compiled. A working committee and an advisory committee were immediately formed, with Friedrich Hegar (1841\u20131927) from Zurich also being appointed to the latter. The two large volumes of the\u00a0\u201cFolk song book for male choirs\u201d (Volksliederbuch f\u00fcr M\u00e4nnerchor)<\/em>, which included 611 pieces and became known as the \u201cKaiser’s song book\u201d (Kaiserliederbuch<\/em>), were published as early as 1906, at the instigation of the German emperor. In 1915, the counterpart\u00a0\u201cFolk song book for mixed choirs\u201d (Volksliederbuch f\u00fcr gemischten Chor<\/em>) with 604 numbers was published, again with the contribution of Friedrich Hegar as a representative of Switzerland. The unique publishing project did not come to an end until 1930, with the multi-volume\u00a0\u201cFolk song book for\u00a0young\u00a0people\u201d (Volksliederbuch f\u00fcr die Jugend<\/em>), in which experts from Germany, Austria, Holland, and Switzerland were also involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But neither the \u201cKaiser’s song book\u201d anthologies nor the forward-looking \u201cFolk song book foryoung people\u201d collection, now published by the State Commission, prevented a bitter debate breaking out in the 1920s. This debate was over a 19th-century style for male choirs, rightly or wrongly negatively described as the \u201cLiedertafelstil<\/em>\u201d, and a new type of vocal polyphony, which was enthusiastically welcomed and accepted or disparagingly criticized as \u201cpolyphonitis\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some time, academic study had been intensifying onthe transition from the increasingly openly criticized, usually four-part homophonic \u201cfolk choir song\u201d in the \u201cLiedertafel<\/em>\u201d style by composers such as Franz Abt (1819\u20131885) and Ignaz Heim (1818\u20131880) to vocal works for \u201cpolyphonic male choirs\u201d by Erwin Lendvai (1882\u20131949), who worked in Switzerland from 1935 to 1938 before emigrating. This work had already led to new discoveries and rediscoveries of unjustly forgotten choral music from an exciting period of upheaval in choral culture in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first keynote lecture of the conference \u201cChoral Life in Switzerland, 19th-21st Century\u201d will be given by Professor Friedhelm Brusniak (Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg, Germany). Below you can read the English summary of his talk (the lecture will be given in German). On the transition from the\u00a0Liedertafel style to choral polyphony in the 19th and 20th centuries On 6 June, 1903,\u00a0Kaiser Wilhelm II gave a memorable speech on \u201cThe German Folk Song\u201d\u00a0following the second \u201cKaiserpreissingen\u201d singing competition for the trophy he had donated for the contest between Germanmen’s choirs. He criticized what he believed to be the wrong choice of repertoire for amateur choirs and inadequate performance standards forsingers in virtuoso choral works. As a consequence, he announced that a collection of \u201call folk songs\u201d that were \u201cwritten, sung, and known in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland\u201d would be compiled. A working committee and an advisory committee were immediately formed, with Friedrich Hegar (1841\u20131927) from Zurich also being appointed to the latter. The two large volumes of the\u00a0\u201cFolk song book for male choirs\u201d (Volksliederbuch f\u00fcr M\u00e4nnerchor), which included 611 pieces and became known as the \u201cKaiser’s song book\u201d (Kaiserliederbuch), were published as early as 1906, at the instigation of the German emperor. In 1915, the counterpart\u00a0\u201cFolk song book for mixed choirs\u201d (Volksliederbuch f\u00fcr gemischten Chor) with 604 numbers was published, again with the contribution of Friedrich Hegar as a representative of Switzerland. The unique publishing project did not come to an end until 1930, with the multi-volume\u00a0\u201cFolk song book for\u00a0young\u00a0people\u201d (Volksliederbuch f\u00fcr die Jugend), in which experts from Germany, Austria, Holland, and Switzerland were also involved. But neither the \u201cKaiser’s song book\u201d anthologies nor the forward-looking \u201cFolk song book foryoung people\u201d collection, now published by the State Commission, prevented a bitter debate breaking out in the 1920s. This debate was over a 19th-century style for male choirs, rightly or wrongly negatively described as the \u201cLiedertafelstil\u201d, and a new type of vocal polyphony, which was enthusiastically welcomed and accepted or disparagingly criticized as \u201cpolyphonitis\u201d.  For some time, academic study had been intensifying onthe transition from the increasingly openly criticized, usually four-part homophonic \u201cfolk choir song\u201d in the \u201cLiedertafel\u201d style by composers such as Franz Abt (1819\u20131885) and Ignaz Heim (1818\u20131880) to vocal works for \u201cpolyphonic male choirs\u201d by Erwin Lendvai (1882\u20131949), who worked in Switzerland from 1935 to 1938 before emigrating. This work had already led to new discoveries and rediscoveries of unjustly forgotten choral music from an exciting period of upheaval in choral culture in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clefni.unibe.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}