Wiener Hofmusikkapelle

The Wiener Hofmusikkapelle is the group of musicians serving at the court chapel in Vienna.

Prior to Maximillian I taking control of Tyrol, there was already a choir, with the organist Paul Hofhaimer and the composer and singer Pierre de la Rue at the Grande chapelle in Vienna, the musical establishment of the Burgundian-Habsburg court.

This was the year the Hofmusikkapelle was founded; George Slatkonia was a chaplain and cantor at the court in Vienna and also the canon and provost of the Diocese of Ljubljana.

[2] After World War I and the fall of the monarchy, the court music band was placed under the Ministry of Education.

Boys were no longer hired and ladies of the Vienna State Opera sang the upper parts, and the choir was disbanded in 1922.