Erinnerung

St. Florianer Sängerknaben, Markus Stumpner

In the Bruckner Year 2024, St. Florian Abbey, with the master's burial place, the famous organ and the world-famous St. Florian Boys' Choir, will become even more of a focus for the international Bruckner fan community than it already is. A special prelude to this was the intermission film of this year's New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, in which two Florian Boys' Choir led an audience of millions through all the Bruckner memorials and in which the choir performed the single release of the moth "Locus iste". Almost every concert of the St. Florian Boys' Choir, which was founded in 1071, includes a work by Anton Bruckner, as the choir is proud to have the "most famous member" in its history. The recently restored Bruckner grand piano, a Bösendorfer built in 1846, which accompanied Bruckner's creative output from 1848 to 1896, will play a special role and accompany another former choirboy, the now internationally renowned countertenor Alois Mühlbacher, in two Bruckner songs. This Bruckner CD recorded in St. Florian naturally also features the famous Bruckner organ - masterfully played by the monastery organist Klaus Sonnleitner.