Musikverein
Diese Gruppen erreichten den Mittelwesten von Amerika um 1830. Die Männerchöre wurden in um 1848 bei deutschen Immigranten von der Fourty-Eighters gegründet. Bungert schreibt auch über die Deutsch-Amerikanern Musikgruppen:The first small German American singing clubs sprang into existence in the Northeast and Midwest of the United States in the 1830s, modeled after male choir organizations in the German states. The first known male choir organization in Germany, an elite organization of poets and composers, was organized in 1809 by Karl Friedrich Zelter and was called the Berliner Liedertafel. In 1810 Hans Georg Nägeli founded the Liederkranz, an organization that was more open socially and wanted to cultivate middle-class values and to educate the people. By the 1840s all-male choirs were modeled on the Liederkranz example. Male choirs met for singing festivals in the southwestern German states from the 1820s and nationally from 1861. All of these organizations took on political overtones and worked toward promoting German unification (142).
Natürlich waren Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, und New York Zentrum von deutscher Gemeinden und Kultur. Mittelwestliche Städte waren die Gastgeber bei Sängerfesten, und die Sängerfesten begannen 1850 mit dem Nordöstlichen Sängerbund. Das Nordöstliche Sängerbund hatte Festen in New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, und Baltimore.The first German American male choirs were formed in Philadelphia in 1835, in Baltimore in 1836, in Cincinnati in 1844, and in New York in 1847. With the arrival of the 1848ers—the refugees of the failed German revolution—and with the beginning of German mass immigration in the 1850s, cities with a substantial German population saw the foundation of male choir organizations.[1] (142)