Aachener Domchor

Under a succession of directors, the choir gained an international reputation, benefiting from an associated school.

[1] It served church music at the cathedral for the court of Charlemagne.

[2] Under a succession of Kapellmeister (choir directors, literally: "chapel masters"), the Aachener Domchor gained an international reputation, benefiting musically and in terms of support from important individuals from close collaboration with the medieval monastic school, today the Aachen Cathedral Choir School (Aachener Domsingschule [de]),[3] and also from cooperation with the Katholische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik St. Gregorius [de],[4] founded in 1881,[5] and the first school for organists in western Germany with boarding facilities (closed 2007).

It was awarded the Kaiser Karl IV Medal, an Aachen cultural prize, in 2013, together with the youth choir Svonky from Prague.

[6] Leading directors of the music in stift and cathedral (kapellmeister) have included: