Mozart community Vienna
The Mozart Community in Vienna is an association dedicated to the dissemination and maintenance of the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
history
Before 1938
The musical world had already tried to preserve and distribute his work since Mozart's death. This endeavor experienced its first high point in the 19th century with the establishment of associations that had set themselves this task. For example, on April 22, 1841, the “Dommusikverein und Mozarteum” in Salzburg and in 1880 the International Mozarteum Foundation , which had its roots in the Dommusikverein. This foundation began to internationalize the Mozart care, which was previously limited to a local level, and for this purpose founded the International Mozart Congregation in 1888 , which was supposed to create the financial basis for this project. As a result, local groups of this organization emerged at home and abroad.
As one of the early local groups of the International Mozart Congregation , the music writer Heinrich Damisch founded the Vienna Academic Mozart Congregation in March 1913 , to which he belonged as chairman until 1945. The purpose of this association was to win supporters for the Salzburg Festival idea in Vienna, which means that Damisch can be considered a co-initiator of the Salzburg Festival . Through him, the history of the Mozart community is closely related to the development of the Salzburg Festival, because Damisch became involved in the Salzburg Festival Hall community from 1916 , which later became the sponsoring organization of the Salzburg Festival, and in 1917 when the Salzburger Festspielhausgemeinde association was founded in Vienna identified with the festival idea.
The former local groups of the international Mozarteum Foundation, including the Vienna Academic Mozart Community, developed into independent associations, with the foundation only exercising an umbrella organization.
From the beginning, the Vienna Academic Mozart Community had set itself the goal of cultivating Mozart's art by organizing concerts and lectures, carrying out relevant publication activities, looking after the Mozart memorials in Vienna, organizing guided tours and events to and at historical sites and young people To promote Mozart interpreters and interpreters of contemporary music. As early as 1931, the Mozart community issued regular notices to its members, which later became the association's periodical publication, the “Wiener Figaro” newsletter, and promoted young contemporary Austrian composers through their own concert cycles. Guided tours of the Sankt Marxer Friedhof and other memorial sites were also among the fixed points of the association's program, as were concerts in the “Figarohaus” , “German House” , the “Orphanage Church ” or in the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .
1938 to 1945
Immediately after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich , the ordinance of May 17, 1938 " on the transition and incorporation of clubs, organizations and associations " brought about the National Socialist orientation of the Viennese academic Mozart community and, like other important composers, was influenced by the cultural policy of the NS -Regimes appropriated and become the leading figure of a “pure” and “German culture”.
This did not happen without the involvement of Damisch, who himself had been an illegal member of the NSDAP since May 31, 1932 and now created an image of Mozart that differentiated the composer as “German” from “Jewish” and thus corresponded to the cultural policy of the Third Reich . The total appropriation of the composer by the Nazi ideology took place as part of the 1941 "Mozart Week of the German Reich".
After 1945
The Vienna Academic Mozart Community Association existed until 1948, when Hans Pemmer announced his voluntary dissolution as a board member. At the same time, a new association called the Mozart Community of Vienna was formed in 1947 with Erik Werba as its head , which still exists today and can be regarded as the successor to the Vienna academic Mozart community.
Since then, the Mozart Community in Vienna has appeared by initiating and holding musical competitions and by awarding various music prizes. In 1949 there was a Mozart singing competition, in 1951 a competition for brass instruments and in 1974 the Dr. Karl Böhm Prize for young Austrian conductors . In the second half of the 20th century, the traditional prizes “ Wiener Flötenuhr ” and “Mozart Interpretationspreis”, which were awarded for the last time in 1999, were awarded by the state and municipal authorities . Well-known artists such as Rudolf Buchbinder , Rainer Küchl , Christian Altenburger , Angelika Kirchschlager , Stefan Vladar , Bo Skovhus and Barbara Moser are among the winners.
A private sponsor donated the Golden Mozart Ring in 1995 and handed it over to the Mozart Community of Vienna with the stipulation that it should be passed on to artists or personalities in cultural life who were »about the work of Mozart and its interpretation earned great merits «. The previous winners of this ring are Anton Scharinger (1995–2002), Angelika Kirchschlager (2002–2007), Michael Heltau (2008–2013) and Franz Welser-Möst (since 2013).
The Mozart Community also awards the Erich Schenk Prize , which since 2010 has been known as the “ Prize for Young Artists - Margaretha Schenk Foundation ”.
Deutschordenshof, Singerstraße 7, Vienna
Honorary members
Holder of the Mozart Medal
Holder of the Mozart Medal
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literature
- Mozartgemeinde Wien 1913–1963 Research and interpretation edited by Mozartgemeinde Wien, self-published in 1964
- Maria Resch: The Mozart Community in Vienna - its history based on its archive . Diploma thesis, 1997, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Vienna
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prizes and awards of the Mozart community Vienna ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 29, 2014
