Collegium Aureum

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Collegium Aureum was the name of a chamber orchestra founded in 1962 and based in Cologne until it was dissolved .

The Collegium Aureum was created on the initiative of the Freiburg production company Deutsche Harmonia Mundi as a free association of highly qualified and well-known instrumental soloists who had set themselves the goal of producing musical works from the 17th, 18th and (from 1976) also the early 19th century to achieve a so-called " fair sound image ”for the record. The members of the ensemble wanted to make their own contribution to the revival of historical performance practice and try out how the musical works of both early music and the classical and early romantic periods sound when they are performed on old instruments, with old playing technique and always in stylish rooms. In the Fugger Castle in Kirchheim in Swabia , the musicians found an acoustically suitable place to rehearse and produce. In the symbol of the golden section of the Renaissance cedar hall in Kirchheim Castle , the music-making “colleagues” came together to form the golden college, the Collegium Aureum , as they called themselves from then on.

In 1962 the first recordings appeared on the record market. Public concerts followed, soon also productions on radio and television. In the following years the Collegium Aureum, led by concertmaster Franzjosef Maier as primus inter pares , gained a worldwide reputation. Concert tours led to England, France, Japan, Latin America, North Africa, the Netherlands, the former USSR and the states of the Middle East.

Well-known ensemble members were u. a. Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord), Hans-Martin Linde (flute), Franz Beyer (viola), Reinhard Goebel (violin) and Wolfgang Preissler (timpani).

The extensive discography that has emerged over three decades proves the artistic rank of this special ensemble. In the 1990s, the ensemble gradually disbanded.

literature

  • Alain Pâris: Classical Music in the 20th Century. Instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs. 2nd Edition. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 .
  • Robert Strobl: History of historical performance practice in outline. Part II: From 1970–1990. Pro Musica Antiqua, Regensburg 1992, ISBN 3-929239-04-3 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Jan Reichow : How old music became new and distant music gradually came closer. In: janreichow.de. 2005, accessed on February 2, 2019 (first published in 50 Years of Early Music in WDR 1954–2004 . Concerto Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-9803578-5-6 . And in CONCERTO , No. 202, June / July 2005) .