(source : Wikipédia)In 1956, the then 19-year-old Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, who was still attending secondary school at the time in order to complete his A-levels, took over the singing group of a scout group in Bad Tölz. At first, the choir mainly sang folk music. Since a parents' meeting in 1957, it has been called the Tölzer Knabenchor. Schmidt-Gaden, who himself originally aspired to a career as a heldentenor, traced the soloist training of each individual boy back to Johann Sebastian Bach, among... plus
