Consortium Classicum

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The Consortium Classicum is a German chamber music ensemble .

It was founded in 1966 by the clarinettist Dieter Klöcker with the aim of promoting and cultivating the chamber music of the classical and early romantic periods . The ensemble has its origins in the Detmold wind group and developed into its current form via the Rhenish wind sextet . The musicians play the standard repertoire with a variable line-up and also dedicate themselves to newly discovered pieces of music.

The ensemble consists of soloists, music professors and members of well-known orchestras that have performed at numerous festivals at home and abroad such as the Salzburg Festival , the Vienna Festival , the Berlin Festival in the USA, South America, Japan, Russia, China and Australia, etc. a. Find worldwide attention and recognition.

The concert activities are supplemented by contributions in TV documentaries on ZDF , for example in Mozart in China and Rediscovered Serenades by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as in ARD films such as Jewish Chamber Music , on ORF , Japan TV and on Swiss television. Numerous records and CD recordings have been awarded prizes such as the German Record Prize , the Premio della Critica Discografica Italiana and the Vienna Flute Clock .

An in-house music archive, which has arisen from decades of basic research in castles, monasteries and libraries, safeguards the holdings of works by forgotten masters of the 18th and 19th centuries and makes concert work easier.

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