Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben) - Christmas with the Vienna Boys' Choir - Various

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VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR (WIENER SÄNGERKNABEN)
CHORUS VIENNENSIS, ACADEMY OF LONDON
PETER MARSCHIK, conductor

It is one of the oldest boys' choirs in the world, and even after now 500 years the Vienna Boys' Choir is still a living tradition. In 1498 Maximilian I engaged twelve boys, who formed the basis of the newly founded court choir. Haydn already sang here although he really belonged to the choir of St. Stephen's cathedral, and Schubert too began his career here. Antonio Salieri sat on the admissions jury then and immediately recognised what great talent lay in the boy. The list of composers closely connected with the Vienna Boys' Choir is long. It reaches from Isaac, Senfl, Caldara, Fux, Salieri and the two Haydn brothers to Anton Bruckner, who as court organist himself rehearsed his Mass compositions with the boys. Unshakable since earliest times, however, is the connection of Christmas with music. For a good 500 years the history of music came to life, year after year, in Christmas carols, No other religious festival has so greatly inspired composers and poets as this, and if people like to call Christmas the "festival of love", they could easily add that it is also the "festival of songs".