Innsbruck Music Association

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The Association for the Promotion of Tonkunst was a music association in Innsbruck that was founded in 1818. From it later emerged the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck , the Tyrolean State Conservatory and the Music School of the City of Innsbruck .

history

The association went back to the initiative of the Benedictine Father Martin Goller , who worked as a music teacher in Innsbruck from 1812. After the first academic music society he founded with students, he was involved in the founding of the music association in June 1818, to which a music school was attached. The lessons were accessible to all social classes: destitute students enjoyed their education at the expense of the association, but with the obligation to take part in performances of the music association for three years after the end of their studies. The activities of the association were directed by a music director. Under Josef Pembaur , who held the post for 40 years, the music club building was built, which was inaugurated on April 16, 1912. Today the Tyrolean State Conservatory is housed there.

During the First World War and the subsequent economic crisis, the club got into a serious crisis, but it received support from the city of Innsbruck and in 1934 the club music school was given the status of a conservatory by the Ministry of Education . Under National Socialist rule, the Innsbruck Music Association was formally dissolved in 1941 after its activities had gradually been restricted. The conservatory was taken over by the city (as early as 1938).

literature

  • Stadtarchiv / Stadtmuseum Innsbruck (ed.): 200 years of music association, music school, conservatory in Innsbruck . Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-903017-05-4 .

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