Federal Music Festival
The Eidgenössisches Musikfest ( Fête fédérale de musique in French , Festa federale di musica in Italian , Fiasta da musica federala in Romansh ) is the name given to the federal festival organized every five years by the Swiss Brass Band Association (SBV), the umbrella organization of the cantonal and regional music associations . In Switzerland, more than 600,000 people are members of a music association. 20 percent of the Swiss play an instrument.
The Federal Music Festival is the largest brass music festival in the world.
prehistory
In Switzerland, the first civil brass band associations were founded during the Helvetic Republic based on the model of the music corps of the French occupation forces. At the beginning of the 19th century, the first harmony music, the so-called field music societies, emerged on a private initiative and on a voluntary basis.
Although the old confederates went into battle according to the marching rhythms of the drummers and Pfeiffer, the civil brass bands were the forerunners of military music. Until 1875, the raising and training of troops was a purely cantonal matter. Cantonal military authorities and the officer corps showed great interest in this genre of music. They offered the civil harmonie field music for a fee for cantonal and federal troop formations and prototypes. For example, the oldest music from Solothurn, Fulenbach , was obliged to take part in federal protests in Solothurn and Olten between 1820 and 1824.
With the invention of the valves on brass instruments around 1820, private music companies were founded. In 1875, a federal ordinance stipulated that trumpeters from the federal and cantonal troops were to be recruited by trumpeter instructors. The military battalion games thus took over the previous tasks of civil field music.
After the founding of the Eidgenössische Blechmusikgesellschaft in 1862 (from 1905 Eidgenössische Musikverein , since 1989 the Swiss Brass Music Association ), a majority of the clubs that still exist today came into being . The federal umbrella association and the cantonal and district music associations as well as the Federal Conductors Association , founded in 1945, coordinate the Swiss brass music system and promote musical and organizational matters such as the federal music festivals. In 1864 the first Federal Music Festival took place in Solothurn . The Swiss Brass Band Association today comprises over 2,200 clubs with around 90,000 active members. With a brass band in almost every Swiss village, Switzerland is one of the main areas of popularization for brass music in German-speaking countries.
The brass music that originated in the same period as modern Switzerland and its direct democracy is of great importance for the cohesion of the willing nation Switzerland. It connects people who speak different languages and have different ways of life, but who are musically and politically united. The music associations have invited people to countless occasions, of which the Federal Music Festival is the highlight, and brought them together.
20th century
While there was still no independent brass music repertoire in the 19th century, original compositions for amateur brass music were created after 1900. The composer Peter Fassbands (1869–1920) was one of the first in Switzerland to compose original literature for wind orchestras. He wrote all the compulsory pieces , some Primavista - and a complete choir piece for the 16th Federal Music Festival, which took place in Vevey in 1912 . From 1923 Carl Friedemann (1862–1952) composed several works for wind orchestra for Federal Music and Gymnastics Festivals. The Dramatic Overture by Franz von Blon (1861–1945), which he composed for the 19th Swiss Federal Music Festival in Bern in 1931, is counted among the pioneering works of symphonic brass music.
In the second half of the 20th century, literature became increasingly diverse. The Russian Rhapsody by Hans Heusser (1892–1942) was a compulsory piece at the 28th Swiss Federal Music Festival in Winterthur in 1986.
21st century
Today, almost all music styles are played: traditional and avant-garde band music, edited orchestral works, jazz , rock and pop music , film music , musicals and the folk music influenced popular music .
522 brass bands with 22,000 active musicians and around 200,000 visitors from all over Switzerland took part in the Swiss Federal Music Festival 2011 in St. Gallen and celebrated a peaceful festival for six days.
Federal music festivals
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literature
- 125 years of the Swiss Federal Music Association , 1987
- Walter Biber: From wind music to the wind orchestra . Maihof Verlag, Lucerne 1995, ISBN 3-9520756-1-2 .
- Herbert Frei: Our brass music. The cultural, social and educational significance of brass music in Switzerland, its historical development and its current practice . Mellingen 1989
- Emil Rumpel: 100 years of the Swiss Federal Music Association 1862–1962. Anniversary font . Adolf Schaer Verlag Thun [1962]
- Gabriela Mattmann : The reds and the blacks. The community of Rain and its music associations (Zurich contributions to everyday culture; Vol. 11). University of Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-908784-00-X .
- Wolfgang Suppan , Bernhard Habla, Patrick M. Jones: Brass music research since 1966: A bibliography . Verlag Tutzing: Schneider, 2003
Web links
- Dieter Ringli: Federal Music Festival. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Official website of the Swiss Brass Band Association
- Information platform about brass music in Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Department of the Interior: 150 Years of the Swiss Brass Band Association
- ↑ Swiss Radio DRS: Federal Music Festival in St. Gallen ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
