Loessnitz Chapel
The Lößnitz Chapel , also known as the Stadtkapelle or Stadtorchester , was a privately run, but then a municipal professional symphony orchestra in what is now the Saxon town of Radebeul .
history
In 1871 the former town musician of Frauenstein , Friedrich Gottfried Seyfried, founded the first professional music band of the Lößnitz villages in Fürstenhain . With the incorporation of Fürstenhain into Kötzschenbroda in 1876, the orchestra became an integral part of cultural life. Due to the rapidly growing number of residents and the simultaneously growing number of restaurants during the early days , there were plenty of opportunities to perform. In particular, the influx of people interested in culture into the Pensionopolis of Saxony, also dubbed Saxon Nice by the king , created a lively demand for musical entertainment.
The landlord Karl August Rupprecht from the Lößnitzer Hof in today's Meißner Straße 202 (in Niederlößnitz ), at that time still under the name Zur Gute Hoffnung , took over the chapel as music conductor in 1887. In 1897 it was taken over by the music director Bruno Krumbholz at the same location, who at the same time founded a private music school in order not only to meet his own demand for orchestral musicians, but also to train young talent for the nearby royal seat of Dresden and its orchestras and bands. After his nearby villa at Blücherstraße 9 (today Bernhard-Voss-Straße 23) was completed in the following year , he moved the music school there; the orchestra's rehearsal rooms remained in the Lößnitzer Hof . The chapel was closed at the beginning of the First World War . Krumbholz and his son Kurt revived the town band in 1919. Father and son Krumbholz died in 1923.
Krumbholz 'successor was the concertmaster Wilhelm Laudel (1881–1964), who was officially appointed town music director in 1924 , probably in connection with the preservation of town charter after the unification of the western loessnitz villages into the town of Kötzschenbroda . His orchestra regularly consisted of around 25 musicians from all instrument groups, who were reinforced by students from the orchestra and music school he ran . A complete symphony orchestra was thus available to Laudel .
The orchestra played regularly at venues such as the Meierei excursion restaurant in Lößnitzgrund , the Goldenen Weintraube (where the state theaters of Saxony would later be built) or the inn in Friedewald , the repertoire consisted of classical music , march music and dance music that was popular at the time .
In 1943 the orchestra was taken over into public administration by the city of Radebeul , which had emerged from the union of Kötzschenbroda and Radebeul in 1935. After the Second World War , Laudel was able to buy back the orchestra together with his music school. In the following years it appeared under different names, in 1946 as the Laudelorchester , in 1947 as the Radebeul Concert Orchestra and from 1948 as the Radebeul City Orchestra .
At the beginning of 1951, his school was officially closed against Laudel's protest; Laudel was 70 years old then. The city orchestra was dissolved in the mid-1950s; Laudel had managed it up to the age of about 75. The State Theaters of Saxony have been performing at their house in Radebeul since around that time .
Laudel himself remained in retirement for almost a decade until 1964.
literature
- Orchestral school. In: Frank Andert (Red.): Stadtlexikon Radebeul . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 147 .
- City orchestra. In: Frank Andert (Red.): Stadtlexikon Radebeul . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 190 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curt Reuter; Manfred Richter (arrangement): Chronicle of Fürstenhain . Radebeul 1967, p. 12 ( online version (pdf; 443 kB) - edited by Manfred Richter 2010).