The Kreuzchor can look back on a great musical tradition, not just as a result of its long history – stretching back an incredible 800 years. The boys' choir is one of the world's foremost ensembles of its kind. The list of former “Crucians” across the centuries reads like a Who's Who of classical music. Great singers like Theo Adam, Peter Schreier and Rene Pape, conductors like Hartmut Haenchen and Hansjorg Albrecht, composers like Carl Heinrich and Johann Gottlieb Graun, Torsten Rasch and Udo Zimmermann – to mention just a few – were all boy choristers at the Kreuzkirche.