Collegium musicum
Collegium musicum was the name used from the 16th to the 18th century, especially in German-speaking countries, and rediscovered in the 20th century for a private association of music lovers. Often the members came from middle-class or student backgrounds and made music together, but Collegia musica could also accept listeners and occasionally took on professional musicians.
history
In the 16th century, collegia musica were predominantly characterized by vocal music ; However, they had their heyday in the 17th and 18th centuries, when they mainly dealt with instrumental works. The first public concerts of a Collegium musicum took place in Hamburg in 1660 under the direction of Matthias Weckmann . Later, from 1701 was Georg Philipp Telemann in Leipzig founded and, among others, Johann Sebastian Bach discontinued Collegium Musicum known to the public.
In the 19th century the name "Collegium musicum" was lost until 1908 Hugo Riemann founded an association of this name again and thus gave an impetus for the current use of this name. Josef Mertin performed with his “Collegium musicum Mertin” in Vienna in the 1930s and 1940s. The renaming of the “Collegium musicum Jenense” of the University of Jena in 1934 to the “Jena Municipal Symphony Orchestra” and later to the Jena Philharmonic is related to its expansion into a professional symphony orchestra.
Examples of today's collegia musica
Today the name “Collegium musicum” can be found in student and amateur ensembles as well as professional ensembles.
- since 1949: Collegium Musicum Bad Honnef, amateur orchestra, since 1988 with chamber choir
- since 1951: Collegium Musicum Basel , professional orchestra
- since 1952: Collegium Musicum of the RWTH Aachen , student orchestra, since 1958 with choir
- since 1953: Collegium musicum Bonn , student orchestra, with choir
- since 1967: Collegium Musicum of KIT , student symphony orchestra at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- since 1979: New Bachisches Collegium Musicum , professional chamber orchestra in Leipzig
- since 1990: Collegium Musicum Salzburg , the chamber choir of the University of Salzburg
See also
- Bach Collegium Stuttgart
- Bach Collegium Japan
- Collegium Novum Zurich
- Quantz Collegium
- Collegium Instrumentale Alois Kottmann
literature
- Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz: Collegium musicum. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
