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| The Abbado app is intended to help anyone who needs help mastering pitch, timing and learning new music. Hopefully the app will lift the whole ensemble quickly past the learning stage, and into the stage where the ensemble and the director can work with the interaction and play with the forms of expression in the music. | ||||||
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| The app is still under development, but hopefully you will find the free "Abbado Choir Trainer" in Apple and Google app stores before Christmas 2024. This will be a simple version intended for choirs. Already you may try out beta versions on Android and Windows. Next year we also expect to release an "Abbado Music Personal Trainer", that will listen to your pitch and help you improve. For more information, please see the User Manual | ||||||
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| There are high ambitions for what this app shall be, and the app has therefore been named after one of the great conductors, choir and orchestra leaders of our time. We who dream of achieving musical perfection can also dream that he now conducts choirs of angels and cherubim, and that he is a guardian angel of all of us who strive for perfection and musical joy. The patron saint of music, st. Cecilia, must have welcomed him. The oldest depiction of this Cecilia is the mosaic from 570 in Sant Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, where she belongs to the choir of virgins. | ||||||
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| Claudio Abbado (26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation. He served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, founder and director of Mahler Chamber Orchestra, founding Artistic Director of Orchestra Mozart and music director of European Union Youth Orchestra. | ||||||
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| Abbado's childhood encompassed the Nazi occupation of Milan. During that time, Abbado's mother spent time in prison for harbouring a Jewish child. This period solidified his anti-fascist political sentiments. His passionate opposition to fascism continued into his adult years. In addition to his work with long-established ensembles, Abbado founded a number of new orchestras with younger musicians at their core. And then, musicians from these youth orchestras further founded spinoff orchestras. Abbado tended to speak very little in rehearsal, sometimes using the simple request to orchestras to "Listen". Such immediate feedback, instead of explanations, is also part of the main ideas of this app |