Bergische Symphoniker

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The Bergische Symphoniker at an open air concert on July 20, 2013 on the Graefrath market square

The Bergische Symphoniker - orchestras of the cities of Remscheid and Solingen GmbH - are the joint orchestra of the two cities of Remscheid and Solingen in the Bergisches Land . They were created in 1995 through the union of the Remscheid Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1925, and the Solingen City Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1939. From 2009 to 2019 Peter Kuhn was chief conductor of the orchestra and general music director of both cities. Daniel Huppert has been his successor since the 2019/2020 season . The managing director of Orchester-GmbH is Stefan Schreiner. The Bergische Symphoniker perform around 180 appearances in concert halls and music theaters per season in both cities, as well as in guest performances in North Rhine-Westphalia and are thus one of the busiest orchestras in Germany .

history

prehistory

The history of the Bergische Symphoniker goes back to 1925. Two years after the inflation , the Lord Mayor of Remscheid, Walther Hartmann, established three cultural institutes that still exist today: the Municipal Museum of Local History, the Remscheid City Archives and a municipal orchestra. As in neighboring Solingen, public musical life in the industrial city was mainly supported by numerous choral societies. Symphony concerts were performed by guest ensembles or the instrumental association founded in 1845, an orchestra of lovers. However, there was already a music director in the person of the choirmaster Gustav Schwager since 1884, who since 1906 has been allowed to call himself the "voluntary municipal music director".

1925-1939

The situation changed after the First World War, when the former German Theater Warsaw moved to Remscheid and performed works from the musical theater in the city's playhouse with the mostly part-time musicians from the concert association founded in 1858. When the orchestra musicians stopped their work in 1925 because of their double workload, Lord Mayor Hartmann founded a municipal orchestra with initially 26 permanent professional musicians - in 1926 there were already 30 musicians - and appointed the 25-year-old musician, music teacher and musicologist Felix Oberborbeck as municipal music director . By founding a “Städtische Schauspielhaus- und Orchester-GmbH”, the municipal orchestra was tied to the city's playhouse, which opened in 1919 and whose program was not limited to spoken theater under its director Ernst Müller-Multa, but also performed operas and operettas .

The newly founded orchestra was used until the end of World War II as well as regular symphony concerts and municipal youth concerts for secondary schools; from the beginning they were an integral part of the orchestra's work. The school musician from Oberborbeck combined musical and educational ambitions here. Due to his connections to the music academy and radio in Cologne, for which he helped shape the musical school radio, there were also occasional radio broadcasts of such youth concerts. To this day, the musical educational work of the orchestra musicians is an essential part of the work of the Bergische Symphoniker. The regular visits of members of all orchestral groups to the schools in the city in preparation for the following school concerts, which were introduced later in the 1950s, also received national attention and recognition as the “Remscheid model”.

The City of Solingen's 14 year younger symphony orchestra had other origins. They go back to 1929. At that time the local cinema musicians lost their jobs as a result of the introduction of the sound film. Until then, the musical life of the city of blades was traditionally supported by the numerous local choirs. In 1929, Werner Saam , who was born in Solingen and studied orchestral direction with Hermann Abendroth in Cologne, took up his post as municipal music director. So both cities had a music director before they created their own orchestra. The orchestra, which was formed in Solingen from the former film musicians, was allowed to use the name “Städtisches Orchester” from 1932, but was only supported financially by the city. It was not until 1935 that the city of blades and Remscheid maintained the “Bergisches Landesorchester”, which can be regarded as the first collective orchestra of the two neighboring cities and thus the forerunner of today's Bergische Symphoniker.

In Remscheid, the economic difficulties in the late 20s and early 30s made it more and more difficult to finance your own orchestra. At times the number of members had to be reduced to 16 or 18 musicians. As a result of the Great Depression, the city was forced to close the city theater in 1931 and dissolve the orchestra. However, the city leaders under Mayor Hartmann were so far-sighted that they only gave up the orchestra on an interim and pro forma basis and kept the 32 musicians at the site with the support of the employment office as the “Former Municipal Orchestra” (so-called “Employment Office Orchestra”). So the concert business could be continued, albeit with considerable personal sacrifices of the musicians.

After Felix Oberborbeck became director of the Weimar University of Music in 1934, the following year, Horst-Tanu Margraf, a conductor personality of high rank, was won over as the new municipal music director in Remscheid; After the Second World War, Margraf became General Music Director in Halle an der Saale and one of the initiators of the Handel Festival there. Under the new director of the reopened theater, Hanns Donadt, a "Bergische Bühne Remscheid-Solingen GmbH" and the "Bergisches Landesorchester" were founded in 1935, which was directed by Margraf on Remscheid and Werner Saam in Solingen.

1939-1945

The theater and orchestra marriage between Solingen and Remscheid only lasted until 1939; at that time the city of Solingen withdrew from the sponsorship of the Bergisches Landesorchester. In Solingen a separate orchestra was founded with 38 - later 42 - musicians, which appeared in the city of blades under the name "Städtisches Orchester", but was known as the "Niederbergisches Landesorchester" when it appeared in the surrounding area. Thus both cities had their own orchestra again during the Second World War; the city of Remscheid continued to run the Bergisches Landesorchester with 52 musicians.

The names of the soloists and guest conductors who appeared in the symphony concerts in both cities in the first decades underline the musical level that Remscheid and Solingen had achieved with the entertainment of a professional orchestra. Among the pianists there are names such as Elly Ney , Claudio Arrau and Wilhelm Kempff , Eduard Erdmann and Karl Hermann Pillney ; under the violinists Georg Kulenkampff , Henri Marteau and Wilhelm Stross ; among the cellists Gaspar Cassadó , Paul Grümmer and repeatedly Ludwig Hoelscher , who was born in Solingen and who repeatedly returned to his hometown as a soloist in the following decades. In addition, vocal soloists such as Erna Berger , Karl Erb and Rudolf Bockelmann could be heard. Guest conductors were u. a. Karl Elmendorff and Hermann Abendroth , the Japanese Count Konoe Hidemaro , the Italian Bernardino Molinari , the Romanian conductor Ionel Perlea or the composer Hans Pfitzner , who also performed repeatedly at Schloss Burg an der Wupper - at that time a regional center of music care. The proportion of contemporary music in concert programs was astonishingly high as early as the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to stage works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss , the opera schedule also included Hans Pfitzner's last opera Das Herz , Wilhelm Kempff's opera Familie Gozzi and Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček .

1945-1960

After Werner Saam was called up for military service in 1944, Otto Siegl took over the leadership of the Solingen Municipal Orchestra for five years after the end of the war and in 1946 the conductor Hanns Reinartz . Werner Saam, who always had a special inclination to directing choirs, first became municipal choir director after his return from prisoner-of-war and in 1951, after the contract with Hanns Reinartz expired, took over his old position as municipal music director. Horst-Tanu Margraf left Remscheid in 1944 when he was signed to the Lemberg Opera; Kapellmeister Felix Raabe stepped in for him as interim chief conductor, followed by colleagues Carl-Robert Vohwinkel and Bruno Frings. In 1947 a new music director could be won with Helmut Schaefer. The orchestras of both cities were temporarily independent until in 1949, after the currency reform, a renewed merger of the two city orchestras appeared necessary. Since the orchestra was no longer able to cope with the double burden of overseeing opera and operetta productions in Solingen, where it had its own music theater after the war and until the mid-1950s, and also giving symphony concerts in both cities, this renewed orchestral marriage lasted only until 1950. In the 1950s, however, a close cooperation between the two municipal orchestras was agreed, which provided for mutual reinforcement for larger-scale works, was expanded in the 1970s and lasted until the two orchestras were merged in 1995.

When Helmut Schaefer received a call to the Ankara University of Music in 1952, Remscheid won the young Otmar Suitner, who was born in Innsbruck in 1922, as the most prominent chief conductor in the history of the orchestra. Clemens Krauss's pupil stayed in Remscheid for five years, moved to Ludwigshafen in 1957 and later made an important career as chief conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and general music director of the Berlin State Opera. Before a suitable successor was found in 1958 in the musicologist and conductor Siegfried Goslich, who, in addition to symphonies by Anton Bruckner, gave contemporary music a great deal of space in the concerts, the experienced conductor Hellmut Fellmer took over the interim direction of the orchestra for a year. In the 50s and early 60s such important personalities as Paul Hindemith and Heinz Tietjen stood at the podium of the Remscheid Orchestra. Siegfried Goslich, who had come to Remscheid from Radio Bremen, took over the management of the main music department at Bayerischer Rundfunk after only three years in 1961 and turned his back on the Bergisches Land.

1960-1995

In the previous year, 1960, Werner Saam, who had left his mark on the municipal orchestra for over three decades, died in Solingen on January 12th during a symphony concert at the conductor's podium: shortly after the start of Sergei Rachmaninov's third piano concerto with the pianist Shura Cherkassky. Eduard Martini, a lecturer at the Wuppertal Conservatory, took over the direction of the orchestra until 1962. Then a long-term successor as music director was found in Walter B. Tuebben. Tuebben kept the fate of the Solingen Municipal Orchestra in his hands for over a decade, until 1973. Under his leadership the line-up of the orchestra could be enlarged, from 1966 Tuebben was allowed to hold the title of General Music Director.

In Remscheid in 1961, the outgoing Siegfried Goslich was succeeded by the young conductor Thomas Ungar , who after five years, in 1966, moved to Regensburg as general music director and later became a professor at the Stuttgart University of Music . His successor as municipal music director was Alexander Rumpf, a student of Herbert von Karajan, in the same year. Over the course of almost 14 years in Remscheid, he was appointed General Music Director - as in Solingen Walter B. Tuebben. The municipal orchestra was also enlarged under his leadership and raised to tariff group B. No chief conductor has led the Remscheid Orchestra as long as Alexander Rumpf. However, the last years of his life were overshadowed by his serious illness, which he succumbed to in December 1980.

In previous years, guest conductors had to step in for the sick general music director, which was not conducive to the continuous development of the orchestra. Among the conducting guests was Christoph Stepp, a student of Hermann Zilcher and founder of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, who had given up leadership of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic in Ludwigshafen in 1978 (where he had succeeded Otmar Suitner in 1960). Stepp took over the interim direction of the Remscheid Municipal Orchestra in the summer of 1980 and was named his successor after the death of Alexander Rumpf. After several years in which the orchestra was mainly led by guests at the podium, he succeeded in musically consolidating the ensemble again in the following years.

In 1973, Lothar Zagrosek succeeded Walter B. Tuebben in Solingen and took the orchestra to new directions artistically - and increasingly to new music. What Otmar Suitner had been for Remscheid, the former Regensburg Cathedral Spatz Zagrosek became for Solingen: a future podium star of high standing who earned his first spurs as chief conductor in the Bergisches Land. After just four years, in 1977, Zagrosek left the city of blades and became general music director of the Lower Rhine Symphony Orchestra in Krefeld-Mönchengladbach; later he became chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart State Opera and the Berlin Konzerthausorchester. During his time in Solingen, 1974, the cooperation agreement between the municipal orchestras of Remscheid and Solingen, which dates back to 1952, was renewed, which provided for a mutual reinforcement of the two ensembles during their performances so that works with larger ensembles could also be performed. Since 1977, both orchestras have also given a concert program each under the direction of their chief conductor as part of subscription concerts in the other city.

In 1977 Sylvia Caduff from Switzerland succeeded Lothar Zagrosek. The winner of the Dimitri Mitropoulos Competition in New York in 1966 was not only the first woman to conduct a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, but also became Germany's first general music director in Solingen. During her term of office the incipient financial difficulties of the two municipalities and attempts to merge the orchestras from Remscheid and Solingen in order to relieve the municipal budgets fell. At that time, however, there was lively opposition to these plans among the citizens of both cities, which led to the establishment of a development association for the respective city orchestra in Solingen and Remscheid in 1982. Thanks to support from the citizenry - in Remscheid, the friends of the city's orchestra joined more than 1,500 members within a few months - and their financial support, both orchestras were initially able to maintain their independence in the 1980s.

In 1985, the Solingen Municipal Orchestra received a new chief conductor in the form of Christian Süss, the former general music director of Heidelberg. The former Thomaner Süss was the prefect of the choir of the Leipzig Thomanerchor and assistant to the Thomaskantor Günther Ramin. For the 50th anniversary of the orchestra in 1989, the city council decided to rename the orchestra the “Symphony Orchestra of the City of Solingen”. In 1985, Süss' Remscheid colleague Christoph Stepp renamed the Remscheid Municipal Orchestra to “Remscheid Symphony Orchestra”. In 1989, in addition to his Remscheid obligations, Stepp succeeded Kurt Graunke as director of the Graunke Symphony Orchestra in Munich, which was renamed the Münchner Symphoniker under his direction. Until his Remscheid contract expired in 1991, he commuted between the Bergisches Land and Munich for two years.

In 1991, Reinhard Seifried, who was born in Munich, was found to be a suitable successor for Stepp, under whose dynamic direction the orchestra took off in a very short time. After the renovation of the main venue of the orchestra, the theater of the city of Remscheid, which opened in 1954, and a reduction in the number of seats, the Philharmonic concerts held on Wednesdays had to be repeated on Thursdays to allow all interested parties to visit. Under Seifried, who had studied with Jan Koetsier, Kurt Eichhorn and Franco Ferrara and was assistant to Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Kubelik and Leonard Bernstein, the series of concert introductions before all Philharmonic concerts in Remscheid was established since the two orchestras were united in 1995 also take place in Solingen and take place in uninterrupted sequence until today.

In 1993, however, Reinhard Seifried preferred a call from Oldenburg, where he had the prospect of a permanent opera ensemble in addition to the concert business. In view of renewed political discussions about the financing and the continued existence of the orchestra in Remscheid, his offer to continue to lead the Remscheid Symphony Orchestra in parallel to his new engagement in Oldenburg did not seem opportune. The orchestra needed an artistic director who could do all he could for the orchestra. The conductor Klaus Eckhard Schneider, a student of Sergiu Celibidache and lecturer at the Musikhochschule Munich, took over the management of the Remscheid Symphony Orchestra in a difficult time in 1993, became its last general music director and at the same time - on the Remscheid side - the first chief conductor of the Bergische Symphoniker, which merged in 1995. His counterpart on the Solingen side was Christian Süss until 1998.

Since 1995

In the 1990s, due to the deteriorating financial situation of the municipalities in both cities, there were renewed discussions about the financial viability and the future of the two municipal orchestras. A merger of the orchestras of both cities seemed the most sensible solution in order to ensure the long-term preservation of an orchestra in both cities and at the same time to relieve the two municipal budgets considerably. Under the leadership of the two mayors Reinhard Ulbrich (Remscheid) and Gerd Kaimer (Solingen), the councils of both cities decided to unite the two orchestras to form an orchestra of tariff group B in the legal form of a limited liability company, whose partners share the two cities equally were. The merger took effect on September 1, 1995. The office was located in Solingen. Due to the contract terms of the two municipal general music directors Schneider and Süss, the merged orchestra initially had two chief conductors for three years, until 1998, who shared the management of the Philharmonic Concerts on an equal basis during this time.

The signing of the Dresden-born Romely Pfund as the new general music director of Remscheid and Solingen proved to be a stroke of luck for the growing together of the two orchestras . The former chief conductor of the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic was not only the second female general music director in Solingen after Sylvia Caduff, but also the first sole chief conductor of the unified Bergische Symphoniker. In the eleven seasons in which she directed the Bergische Symphoniker until 2009, she succeeded in merging the musicians from both orchestras into a new unit. In 2003 she was honored with the culture prize of the Baden Community Foundation for her services. During her term of office, various world premieres and the introduction of two “Sinfonikplus” concerts as part of the ten Philharmonic concerts given by the orchestra each season will take place; In these special programs, the orchestra dared to cross the boundaries of classical music. In addition, during her tenure, the orchestra succeeded in making guest appearances in other cities in North Rhine-Westphalia. a. in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Essen and Dortmund, and to market for CD recordings, so that the grants of both sponsoring cities could be reduced by considerable amounts.

When Romely Pfund moved to the Landestheater Mecklenburg as opera director and chief conductor at the end of the 2008/09 season and handed over the management of the Bergische Symphoniker to the Bielefeld general music director Peter Kuhn , she left her successor with a well-ordered house. Kuhn, who was born in Karlsruhe, managed to raise the artistic level of the orchestra even further in the following years and to win new listeners for the orchestra with attractive concert programs. Kuhn set a special accent with the excavations of seldom played composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as George Enescu, Ernst von Dohnányi and Giuseppe Martucci.

Despite the successful work and savings of around € 12 million since the merger, which Romely Pfund was able to quantify in the concert almanac of her last season in 2008/09, in her last years in office in the Remscheid City Council, voices were again raised that the orchestra was financially viable fundamentally questioned the city. In the following years, the city council and administration considered merging the Bergische Symphoniker with the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra and even a unilateral withdrawal of the city of Remscheid from the Orchester-GmbH. There was fierce opposition to this, not only in Solingen, but also from the Remscheid citizenship and the orchestra's sponsorship association, which was renamed “Remscheider Orchesterfreunde eV” after the merger. After a long political struggle and tough negotiations between the two cities, at the end of the 2012/2013 season it was possible to secure the long-term political existence of the Bergische Symphoniker sponsored by both cities and to further relieve their budgets. For both cities this means savings of around € 500,000 per year in the medium term. Above all, the musicians themselves contributed to this, as they waived their 13th monthly salary for ten years under a company collective agreement. By reducing the current 71 posts to 66 musicians in a socially acceptable manner, personnel costs are also to be permanently reduced without questioning the orchestra's classification in tariff group B or the playability of larger-scale works. In the future, musicians should, in addition to their orchestral services, also teach in the city's music schools if possible.

Conversely, the cities undertook to consider a unilateral exit from the Orchester-GmbH at the earliest after ten years. With a notice period of five years, this means a livelihood security until at least 2029. The development associations in both cities also made the agreement possible by helping to finance the orchestra to an even greater extent than before. The Remscheid Orchestra Friends have developed a sponsorship model under which music lovers, individually or in groups, can sponsor a musician over several years and help finance his salary. The idea of ​​establishing a foundation came from Solingen and is in preparation. A quarter of the capital of the foundation to be created is to be formed from funds from the city savings banks of both municipalities and from the two development associations; Endowments are possible and desirable. The foundation is to contribute permanently to the financing of the orchestra from the proceeds of the endowment capital and accordingly also take over shares in the Orchester-GmbH. In addition, the contract of General Music Director Peter Kuhn was extended by four years in the summer of 2013, so that artistic continuity is ensured for the next few years.

Chief Conductors and Municipal (General) Music Directors

Remscheid:

  • Felix Oberborbeck (MD, 1925–1934)
  • Horst-Tanu Margraf (MD, 1935–1944)
  • Felix Raabe , Carl-Robert Vohwinkel (interim)
  • Helmut Schaefer (MD, 1947–1952)
  • Otmar Suitner (MD, 1952–1957)
  • Helmut Fellmer (interim 1957–1958)
  • Siegfried Goslich (MD, 1958–1961)
  • Thomas Ungar (MD, 1961–1966)
  • Alexander Rumpf (GMD, 1966–1980)
  • Christoph Stepp (GMD, 1981–1991)
  • Reinhard Seifried (GMD, 1991–1993)
  • Klaus Eckhard Schneider (GMD, 1993–1998)


Solingen:


Bergische Symphoniker

Musical work

Philharmonic concerts

The focus of the Bergische Symphoniker's musical work is the ten Philharmonic concerts of the orchestra each season, which take place in Remscheid in the Teo Otto Theater (formerly the Theater der Stadt Remscheid) inaugurated in 1954 and in Solingen in the concert hall of the theater and concert hall, which opened in 1963. The orchestra also presents itself with internationally renowned soloists such as the pianists Bernd Glemser and Lars Vogt, Peter Rösel and Rudolf Buchbinder ; with violinists like Christian Tetzlaff or Frank Peter Zimmermann or the clarinetist Sabine Meyer. In addition to the incumbent general music director, guest conductors are also on the podium at these concerts, in recent years Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and Werner Ehrhardt, under whose direction the orchestra has also gained experience in the field of historically informed performance practice.

Musical theater

Even without the two cities having their own musical theater ensemble, operas and operettas, musicals and ballet are among the central fields of activity of the Bergische Symphoniker. The Bergische Symphoniker usually sit in the orchestra pit for the traditional productions of the Solingen Theater, which date back to around 1960, but also for guest performances by theaters in neighboring cities or by touring theaters in both cities.

Special concerts

In addition to its subscription concerts, the orchestra also gives a number of special concerts, for example on the Day of German Unity, on Christmas and New Year's Eve, in churches and at carnival. The castle serenades of the Bergische Symphoniker in the knight's hall at Schloss Burg an der Wupper have a decades-long tradition. With its district concerts, the orchestra also goes out of the city centers to the various districts of Remscheid and Solingen. For years, the Bergische Symphoniker have also presented winners of the national competition “Jugend musiziert” in their concerts, as well as the traditional “Marler Debut”, the oldest prizewinner concert of the national competition “Jugend musiziert”. Then there are usually young conductors from the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council at the podium of the orchestra, with which the Bergische Symphoniker also maintain a long-term partnership.

Family, children, youth and senior concerts

The Bergische Symphoniker see themselves as an orchestra for all citizens of the two cities, not just for the regular visitors and subscribers to their concert series. That is why the orchestra offers special concerts for families, children and young people. The “Wandelkonzerte” in the Solingen theater and concert hall and the school concerts in Remscheid, which are prepared by visits by musicians from the various orchestral groups to the general schools, have a long tradition. In this context, the students are introduced to the appropriate instruments. This “Remscheid model” has received attention and recognition beyond the region for over half a century. Through performances in retirement homes and clinics, the orchestra also reaches people who are no longer able to attend a concert for health reasons.

Chamber music

Since the orchestras in Remscheid and Solingen were founded, various chamber music formations have been formed from the two ensembles, which since the merger in 1995 have also been recruited from the combined staff of the Bergische Symphoniker. They present themselves in both cities in regular chamber concert series.

Guest performances

The orchestra itself also makes a significant contribution to its financing and to relieving the city budget by giving guest performances in various cities in North Rhine-Westphalia and beyond. The participation of the Bergische Symphoniker in the annual “Divertissementchen” of the “Cäcilia Wolkenburg”, the stage community of the Cologne men's choir, in the opera house of the cathedral city has a long tradition.

Awards

The Bergische Symphoniker received the award of the German Association of Music Publishers for their concert program in the 2001/02 season.

Recordings

Vitezslav Novak: orchestral works. Bergische Symphoniker, conductor: Romely Pfund. CD: Music production Dabringhaus and Grimm MDG 6011159-2

Siegfried Wagner: "The Heathen King". Bergische Symphoniker, conductor: Hiroshi Kodama. 2 CDs: Marco Polo 8.225301-03

In addition, concerts by the Bergische Symphoniker as part of the city concerts from North Rhine-Westphalia can also be heard regularly on the cultural radio WDR 3.

Friends and sponsors

In 1982, both in Solingen and Remscheid, two development associations were established to provide ideal and material support for the two municipal orchestras: In Solingen, Hans-Dietrich Saam, the son of the first municipal music director Werner Saam, who died in 1960, took over the founding chairman of the association; Entrepreneur Walter Spelsberg the Friends of the Orchestra of the City of Remscheid, which he chaired for over a quarter of a century. In 2009 Harald Lux ​​took over the chairmanship of the association, which has been called "Remscheider Orchesterfreunde eV" since the merger. In Solingen, the friends' association today bears the name "Solinger Freundeskreis der Bergische Symphoniker eV"; The chairman there is Reiner Daams.

Orchestra academy

The Bergische Symphoniker have been running their own orchestra academy since 1999 to promote highly talented young musicians. In one-year internships, particularly talented music college graduates and students can gain experience in the work of a professional symphony orchestra. The scholarship awarded annually by the academy for a young conductor is unique in Germany.

Chorus of the Bergische Symphoniker

When performing choral orchestral works, the orchestras of the two cities have worked with the two municipal choirs in Remscheid and Solingen, which since the merger have mostly performed together and in both cities; occasionally they have been and are reinforced by other choirs from both cities. In 2011, the two municipal choirs followed the example of the orchestra and joined forces to form the “Bergische Symphoniker Choir”. At the same time, the Solingen music school director Ulrich Eick-Kerssenbrock has taken over the rehearsal of the choir.

literature

  • Wilhelm Rees: On the history of cultural life in Remscheid. Remscheid 1937.
  • Karl Gustav Fellerer (Ed.): Music in the Remscheid room. (= Contributions to Rhenish Music History, Issue 44). Cologne 1960.
  • Walter Lorenz: 50 years of the municipal orchestra. Municipal Museum of Local History and City Archives Remscheid, Remscheid 1975.
  • Werner Müller: The Solingen small world theater. Duisburg 1973.
  • 60 Years of the Orchestra in Remscheid, 1925–1975, A Chronicle. Remscheid 1985.
  • 50 years of the Solingen Municipal Orchestra. Festschrift. Solingen 1989.
  • Joachim Dorfmüller: Wuppertal music history. Wuppertal 1995.
  • 50 years of the Solingen theater and concert hall. Festschrift. Solingen 2013.

Web links

Commons : Bergische Symphoniker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Huppert becomes GMD of the Bergische Symphoniker. September 24, 2018, accessed on September 4, 2019 (German).