Mozart Foundation

The Mozart Foundation from 1838 in Frankfurt am Main is a non-profit foundation and goes back to an initiative of the Frankfurter Liederkranz von 1828 eV. The Frankfurter Kantorei and the Neeber Schuler Choir were later added as donors.

aims

According to its constitution, the foundation should fulfill the following purposes:

• Financial support for young scholarship holders for up to 2 years after completing their composition studies.
• Material support from internationally recognized composers who are demonstrably in need through no fault of their own, who have reached the age of 60 and are considered to be innocent.
• Financial aid to former scholarship holders for the distribution of their works within 3 years upon request, provided that they can prove they have no means to do so themselves.

history

On June 12, 1838, when the constitution of the foundation was approved, it came into force. Before that, the male choir Gesellschaft Liederkranz had planned a music festival, the income of which was to form the basis of the foundation. Well-known composers such as Franz Liszt and Louis Spohr donated their concert proceeds to this cause. One of the founding members was the composer Wilhelm Speyer .

Initially the scholarship was 400 guilders , then 1,800 gold marks and was granted for four years. Today the amounts are given individually.

Previous scholarship holders (selection)

Some well-known composers are among the scholarship holders:

• Caspar Joseph Brambach
• Max break
• Thuon Burtevitz
• Moritz Eggert
• Frank Gerhardt
• Engelbert Humperdinck
• Jan Kopp
• Arnold pitcher
• Claus Kühnl
• Ludwig Thuille
• Fritz Steinbach
• Ernst Toch
• Paul Umlauft
• Hans-Jürgen from Bose
• Otfried Büsing

literature

• The Mozart Foundation from 1838 in Frankfurt am Main. 150 years of promoting young composers. Anniversary publication for the celebration on June 23, 1988 in the Kaisersaal des Frankfurter Römers, Mozart Foundation, Frankfurt a. M., 1988
• Mozart Foundation . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 11, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 842.

Web links

• Official website
• Detailed description of the origin of the Mozart Foundation: Peter Cahn: A composition prize in the name of Mozart. In: neeber-schuler-chor.de. Retrieved December 18, 2010 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mozart Foundation on the Frankfurt am Main website
2. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Musik/M/Ramann,+Lina/Franz+Liszt/Zweiter+Band/Erste+Abtheilung/Drittes+Buch/9.+Nonnenwerth/1.?hl=mozartstiftung
3. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Kulturgeschichte/M/Spohr,+Ludwig+Louis/Lebenserinnerungen/Zweiter+Band/Das+zweite+Kasseler+ Dezehnt+bis+zum+End+der+Lebenserinnerungen?hl= mozartstiftung
4. ↑ Johannes Volker Schmidt: Vanishing Point Italy. Georg Olms Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-487-15252-3 , p. 200 ( full text in the Google book search).
5. ↑ PROGRAM ARCHIVE. (No longer available online.) In: frankfurter-buerger-stiftung.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 5, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , 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.    
6. ^ The scholarship holders of the Mozart Foundation from 1838. (No longer available online.) In: neeber-schuler-chor.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 18, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , 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.