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In the Bruckner Year 2024, St. Florian Abbey, with the master's burial place, the famous organ and the world-famous St. Florian Boys' Choir, will become even more of a focus for the international Bruckner fan community than it already is. A special prelude to this was the intermission film of this year's New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, in which two Florian Boys' Choir led an audience of millions through all the Bruckner memorials and in which the choir performed the single of the moth InchLocus isteInch.Almost every concert of the St. Florian Boys' Choir, which was founded in 1071, includes a work by Anton Bruckner, as the choir is proud to have the Inchmost famous memberInch in it's history. The InchLocus isteInch has long since become the secret anthem of the choirboys, and the other great motets such as InchAve MariaInch, InchOs justiInch and InchTota pulchra esInch are also part of the regular repertoire of the Florian Boys' Choir. All of these works have now been re-recorded under the direction of Markus Stumpner and will be released on CD and digitally on March 1 for the Bruckner Year 2024 under the title InchRemembranceInch. However, not only the master's best-known choral works will be presented, but also rarities the recently restored Bruckner grand piano, a Bosendorfer built in 1846, which accompanied Bruckner's creative output from 1848 to 1896, will play a special role. Franz Farnberger will play Bruckner's best-known piano piece, InchErinnerungInch, and accompany another former choirboy, the now internationally renowned countertenor Alois Muhlbacher, in two Bruckner songs. The boys perform the Inch22nd PsalmInch together with the pianist, while an ensemble of former choirboys perform the two male choruses InchUm MitternachtInch and InchHerbstliedInch. Franz Farnberger rearranged InchDer LehrerstandInch, a men's choir whose text