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Choirs: Apart from church music, in which choral singing has always 
been a tradition, and the opera choirs, which were usually rather 
small until the 19%%sup th/%  century, independent choirs only 
developed as the musical activities of the middle class became 
institutionalised. The newly founded musical associations usually 
comprised a music school and a choir (one of the most famous is the 
"Singverein" choir of the Society of the Friends of Music); along with 
bourgeois choir clubs, choral unions, which were of nationalist 
persuasion, also developed during the 2%%sup nd/%  half of the 
19%%sup th/%  century. Today, there are small and large choirs 
pursuing various musical aims; the most famous amateur associations 
are: the Singverein, Singakademie, A. Schoenberg Chor and 
Concentus vocalis. Austria´s best known professional choir is 
the concert association of the Vienna State Opera Choir.  Saengerbund.


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