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}} The Thomanerchor (English: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. At present, the choir consists of 92 boys from 9 to 18 years of age. The members, called ''Thomaner'', live in a boarding school, the ''Thomasalumnat'', and attend Thomasschule zu Leipzig, a Gymnasium school with a linguistic profile and a focus on musical education. The younger members attend the primary school ''76. Grundschule in der Manetstraße''. Johann Sebastian Bach served as Thomaskantor, director of the choir and church music in Leipzig, from 1723 to 1750. ==The choir== Although the choir's main musical field traditionally consists of the vocal work of Johann Sebastian Bach, the repertoire comprises chants from different eras, from the Renaissance to contemporary music. Georg Christoph Biller was the 16th Thomaskantor since Bach from 1992 to 2015. The Forum Thomanum is a meeting place in the Bach Quarter of Leipzig. The construction has already begun and it will be a big musical campus with the ''Thomasalumnat'', Kindergarten, Primary School, High School, Choir, Luther Church, Youth hostel, Administration buildings, gym, a rehearsal hall and more amenities. There are some critical voices as well, that the Forum Thomanum project will change the way that the ''Thomaner'' are instructed and recruited. Most of the 93 members of the ''Thomanerchor'' live in the Thomasalumnat in Hiller street. The boys are separated in ''Stuben'' and not school classes or groups. One ''Stube'' is not only a sleeping room, but also an administrative entity with a closed hierarchy and a clear assignment of tasks. There's always an older choir boy with younger ones in each ''Stube'' in order to create a hierarchy and didactic relationship. Hence, the education on the Thomanerchor is enforced by the older members and the teachers don't really play a big role. Therefore, it is possible that only 5 teachers look after 90 children. Every year the ''Stuben'' are distributed again, the ages of the children are considered for the changes and the possibility to influence the social order on the ''Stube''. The ''Stuben'' have only lockable wardrobes (''Köte'') and one table for each boy. There are also other furnishings, namely shelves, for books, newspapers and satchels, radios, plants and chairs. Televisions and computers are not allowed and every room has about 10 beds. The ''Thomasalumnat'' also has a gym, a rehearsal hall, and a dining-hall where all boys eat together thrice per day, a shop where the tailor sews the boys' suits for the concerts, an archive, a wing of the building for the teachers who live there, a room for the band, a model railway room, a fitness room, a living-room for the older boys, a "press room" for the school's newspaper, a sauna, a library with computers and internet, an infirmary, and a television room. Restrooms are not available for every boy: restrooms are on the hallway for the whole ''Stube''. There are only two shower rooms for all boys. The Thomanerchor offers concerts across all of Germany (at least two big tours a year) and abroad. The choir also sings three times a week in the Thomaskirche, "Motette" every Friday evening at 6 and every Saturday afternoon at 3, service on Sundays at 9 o'clock. The choir also sings at Protestant festivities. The children have vacations during the summer school vacations. The tour of 2011, the choir's 800th year, presents a program of Scarlatti's ''Exultate Deo'', Kyrie and Gloria from Palestrina's ''Missa sine nomine'', Bruckner's motets ''Vexilla regis'' and ''Christus factus est pro nobis'', and Bach's motet ''Jesu, meine Freude'', performed for example on 6 July in the Eberbach Abbey at the Rheingau Musik Festival. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomanerchor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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