General German music association

The Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein (ADMV) was founded in 1861 by Louis Köhler , Franz Brendel , Franz Liszt and others. He made it his business to perform mainly newer clay works and, to a certain extent, to be to living composers what painting exhibitions were to living painters. In 1937 the ADMV was dissolved by the National Socialists .

history

In 1859, under the license of Prince Konstantin von Hohenzollern-Hechingen, the first musicians' meeting took place on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in Leipzig . During the second Tonkünstler meeting (August 4th to 8th, 1861) in Weimar, the statutes of the ADMV were approved by over 700 founding members (meeting on August 7th), and the association was thus founded. The new magazine for music became the organ of the association. At the end of the 19th century, the ADMV was under the protectorate of the Grand Duke of Weimar.

The Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein has organized a number of large Tonkünstler meetings, namely 1861 (Weimar), 1864 (Karlsruhe), 1865 (Dessau), 1867 (Meiningen), 1868 (Altenburg), 1870 (Weimar), 1878 (Erfurt), 1880 ( Baden-Baden), 1881 (Magdeburg), 1882 (Zurich) and 1883 (Leipzig). At the 42nd Tonkünstler Festival connected with the assembly, Gustav Mahler conducted the world premiere of his 6th symphony in the Essen hall on May 27, 1906 .

The direction preferred by the General German Music Association was the New German School, which was oriented towards Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner . Usually after the general assembly of the association, the musicians' day held its meetings, the efforts of which were directed more towards the external interests of the orchestra musicians, music teachers etc. The printing of interesting pieces of music was regularly commissioned by Breitkopf & Härtel . At the beginning of the 20th century the annual membership fee was 6 marks.

Under the National Socialists the dissolution was ordered in 1937 after Peter Raabe , who was also chairman of the Reichsmusikkammer , had taken over the chairmanship. In the following year, the so-called Reichsmusiktage took place under the Nazi flag . The association archive (files and letters) has been kept in the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar since 1987 . The club library and the sheet music collection are in the University Archive / Thuringian State Music Archive Weimar (HSA / ThLMA) of the Liszt School of Music Weimar .

literature

Wikisource: The General German Music Association and its historical and ethnographic exhibition in Leipzig , Die Gartenlaube, 1883, Issue 23, pp. 356-360. - Sources and full texts

Music association . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 11, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 934.

Web links

Detailed concert programs of the ADMV 1859–1937 ( Memento of March 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), McMaster University
Archive of the ADMV in the Goethe and Schiller Archive Weimar (archive database)
https://www3.carleton.ca/admv/ Detailed concert program of the ADMV 1859-1937

Footnotes

^ The 19th Tonkünstlerversammlung of the “Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein” in Zurich from July 9th to 12th, 1882 . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 3, 1882, p. 1 .

[1] The 19th Tonkünstlerversammlung of the “Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein” in Zurich from July 9th to 12th, 1882 . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 3, 1882, p. 1 .