The Vienna Boys' Choir is one of the oldest and most prestigious boys' choirs, with members aged between 10 and 14 giving over 300 concerts a year.
We are delighted to welcome them to the Rosey Concert Hall for an evening featuring a varied repertoire with a festive touch. This is a wonderful opportunity to show our youngest audience members that artists can sometimes be even younger!
The Vienna Boys' Choir is one of the most famous choirs in the world, and also one of the oldest: boys have been singing in the imperial chapel in Vienna since at least 1296. Two hundred years later, on 7 July 1498, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I founded a court chapel in Vienna. He explicitly required the presence of boys among the singers, thus laying the foundations for the current choir of the Vienna Boys' Choir. Like their contemporary successors, these young singers of the time travelled the roads to accompany their imperial employer to parliamentary meetings, coronations, weddings, official processions and state celebrations.
Over the centuries, the Viennese court attracted many musical geniuses such as Heinrich Isaac, Johann Joseph Fux and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Composers such as Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn and Franz Schubert sang in the choir as children; Anton Bruckner gave them singing and piano lessons.
