page_title: Chor von St. Bonifatius
section_title: Concerts
hierarchical_section_title: Chor von St. Bonifatius / History / 1981 to 2018 / Concerts
caption_attribution_description: English: Colin Mawby and Gabriel Dessauer in front of St. Bonifatius church, Wiesbaden, Germany.Deutsch: Colin Mawby und Gabriel Dessauer vor der St. Bonifatius Kirche, Wiesbaden, Deutschland.
context_page_description: The Chor von St. Bonifatius is a German mixed choir, the church choir of the parish St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden. It was founded in 1862 as a male choir and was a mixed choir from 1887. From 1981 to 2018, it was conducted by Gabriel Dessauer, who founded two children's choirs. The group sang the first performance in Germany of John Rutter's Mass of the Children and performed in Azkoitia, San Sebastián, Görlitz, Bruges, Macon and Rome. Colin Mawby composed for the choir the Missa solemnis Bonifatius-Messe for the 150th anniversary, celebrated on 3 October 2012. From 2019, the choir has been conducted by Roman Twardy who conducted in his first concert Dvořák's Stabat Mater.
context_section_description: Once a year the choir performs a choral concert, since 1997 regularly on 3 October. They sang among others Mozart's Requiem, Schubert's Mass No. 5 in A-flat, Ein deutsches Requiem by Brahms, Rossini's Petite messe solennelle, Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass, and Verdi's Requiem. Both Chor and Kinderchor appeared in performances of Hermann Suter's Le Laudi (1998 and 2007) and in 2004 in the German premiere of John Rutter's Mass of the Children. In 2006, Dessauer conducted Karl Jenkins' Requiem, composed in 2004. In 2010, works of Bach were performed, his Mass in G minor and choral movements from cantatas BWV 140, BWV 12, BWV 120 and BWV 29. In 2011 the choir sang Haydn's Die Schöpfung. The children's choir sang along with the soprano.
  To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the choir in 2012, Dessauer commissioned Colin Mawby to compose the Missa solemnis Bonifatius-Messe. Mawby wrote the Mass in 2011 for the forces available at the church, soprano, choir, children's choir, oboe and organ, premiered on 3 October 2012. The organist was Ignace Michiels from St. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges, soprano Natascha Jung, oboist Leonie Dessauer. A second performance was given on 3 November in the Frankfurter Dom, with organist Andreas Boltz. In 2013 the choir performed Schubert's Mass No. 6 along with his Unfinished Symphony. The concert of 2014 was devoted to John Rutter's Magnificat. In 2016, the choir performed Mendelssohn's Elias a second time, now in the church. The concert of 2017 was Der Messias, Mozart's arrangement of Handel's Messiah. In 2018, the choir performed Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms, with soloists Marina Hermann and Johannes Hill.
  The choir sang in 1986 in Azkoitia and San Sebastián, in two churches with a Cavaillé-Coll organ, in 1987 in the Limburg Cathedral, in 1990 in the cathedral St. Jakobus, Görlitz, in 1996 in Memphis, Tennessee, and Macon, Georgia. In Rome in 2008, the choir sang a concert in San Paolo dentro le Mura of Vivaldi's Gloria and Haydn's Nelson-Messe, and a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.
caption: Colin Mawby and Gabriel Dessauer in front of St. Bonifatius, 2011
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