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The Schola Cantorum was the trained papal choir during the Middle Ages, specializing in the performance of plainchant for the purpose of rendering the music in church. In the fourth century, Pope Sylvester I was said to have inaugurated the first Schola Cantorum, but it was Pope Gregory I who established the school on a firm basis and endowed it. [1]
The Schola Cantorum de Paris (schola cantorum being Latin for 'singers' school') is a private conservatory in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes , Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire 's emphasis on opera.
The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that have made notable recordings of early music.
Schola Cantorum de Venezuela works under the sponsorship of the Fundación Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, a Non-Profit Organization that oversees several other choirs such as: Cantoría Alberto Grau, Pequeños Cantores de la Schola and Schola Juvenil. Together they provide a complete system to promote and develop choral music in Venezuela.
Hugh C. M. Ross (c. 1898 – 20 January 1990, in Manhattan, New York City, age 91), [1] was a choral director and conductor of the Schola Cantorum of New York, United States. He was born in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of David Melville Ross, the canon of Wells Cathedral. A student of organ, piano and violin, he became a fellow of the ...
Schola Cantorum of Oxford, a chamber choir based at Oxford University in England; Schola Cantorum de Paris, a musical academy based in France. Schola Cantorum of Rome, a Catholic choir based in Italy; Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Schola Cantorum, a choir formerly known as MacDowell Chorus and based in the United States
The Schola Cantorum’s live recording of Heinrich Biber’s 1693 Vesperae longiores ac breviores with Robert Mealy and Yale Collegium Musicum received international acclaim from the early music press, as have subsequent CDs of J. S. Bach’s rarely heard 1725 version of the St. John Passion and Antonio Bertali’s Missa resurrectionis. A ...
The choir was founded in 1960 by the British-Hungarian conductor László Heltay as the Collegium Musicum Oxoniense before adopting the name Schola Cantorum of Oxford in 1964. [2] The choir has been conducted by a long line of eminent conductors including Andrew Parrott, Nicholas Cleobury, Ivor Bolton, Jeremy Summerly and James Burton.