Article on the murder of a chorus member

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Published

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6 January 2026

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Jul 1867

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Participants:  Mozart Männerchor

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Article: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 13 July 1867, 779.

An aspiring and talented tenor of the Mozart Men’s Chorus, Heinrich Hager, was murdered recently in a fight at festivities while with his “singing brothers”. (…) He was 36 years old. At his funeral the Mozart Men’s Chorus sang: “Wie so sanft ruh’n” [“How gently we rest”], and the Teutonia Chorus: “Eine Hand voll Erde” [“A hand full of earth”].