VIENNESE BOYS CHOIR
TRAINING OF YOUTHS MOZART AND SCHUBERT \ Bovs desiring to be admitted to the Viennese Boys' Choir, tho brilliant combination which will open a season at His Majesty's Theatre on Wednesday, November G, have to apply at the early age of seven years. So eagerly are these apj)ointmonts sought after that thousands of boys every year apply for admission. All the usual school subjects are, of course, included in the curriculum in addition to music, both theoretical a.nd practical, but in this first year their musical studies are mostly confined to singing and voice production. At the end of the first year, the second stage of selection begins and for two years the process continues until finally only 15 or 20 boys might remain out of the hundreds first chosen and the thousands who applied. These 15 or 20 boys are then finally admitted to tho choir. To mention only a few, Hans Richtor, Felix Mottl and Clement Krauss received their first musical education in the choir. Mozart, Haydn and Franz Schubert were in their boyhood also members, and a tablet in the Isational Library of Vienna records the date on which Schubert sang for the last time among tho Wiener Sartgerknaben.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 10 (Supplement)
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204VIENNESE BOYS CHOIR New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 10 (Supplement)
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