Arnold Schoenberg Choir

The Arnold Schoenberg Choir (Arnold Schoenberg-Chor) is one of the leading choral ensembles of Vienna, particularly known for a series of Baroque music recordings. It was founded in 1972 by Erwin Ortner. Ortner, a Viennese who had been a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir, graduated from the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts, having studied musical pedagogy, sacred music, and orchestral conducting with Hans Swarowsky and choral conducting with Hans Gillesberger. Ortner and the chorus chose their name to honor Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) as a great Viennese-born comp...