Calcar Music Association
The Calcar Music Association is a wind orchestra from Kalkar on the Lower Rhine . It was founded in 1828 and is a member of the Brass Music Association of North Rhine-Westphalia of the Federation of German Brass Music Associations.
history
The history of the association begins in 1927. The then church councilor Franz Devers is quoted as saying: "There was a music association and it will come back". It was known at that time that there was a music association in Kalkar, but only the unusable remains of some musical instruments were left. Due in particular to the initiative of Franz Devers and Pastor Anton Beckmann, the association was founded as a church association with the name Catholic Music Association Calcar in 1927. He made his first public appearance with seven members at the Corpus Christi procession in 1928. The musical director was the former military musician and chief customs secretary of the Kalkar customs station, Edmund Krieg.
In 1929 the association made itself independent. Pastor Anton Beckmann obtained that the music association Calcar , the new association name, was allowed to continue to use the church's 12 musical instruments. The association experienced a qualitative and quantitative upswing. In the early 1930s he played with 12 musicians at the Kalkar Passion Play in the Teufelsschlucht on Monreberg. At the end of the 1930s it already had 18 members. In 1936 he changed his name to Musikverein Kalkar due to the political situation .
Club life came to a standstill during the Second World War . The Kalkar Music Association had to complain about the loss of nine members. All musical instruments were lost. At the beginning of 1947 the survivors met and decided to "re-establish". Brass, butter and bacon were collected and so initially three musical instruments could be obtained by barter. The first concert took place under the direction of Karl Rucinski in 1948 and a year later the association had grown to 17 members. "Kalkarer Musikverein active again", reported the Rheinische Post and further: "The Kalkar Musikverein ... can be assured that it has developed into a powerful and harmonious ensemble". In the mid-1950s, club uniforms were purchased for the first time.
A sensational discovery was made in 1974. By chance one came across the name "JJ Aanderheyden [...] director of the music association of Calcar" in the chronicle of the St. Georgi brotherhood from the 19th century. Thereupon the director of the municipal museum Werner Kock was asked for help. He discovered a letter dated July 7, 1828 in the city archives, in which the chief customs controller of inheritance law registered the establishment of an association with the name Musik Verein von Calcar with Mayor Robbers. In an exchange of letters from July 1833, the focus was on the limited space in the rehearsal room in the school. One of these letters is decorated with a seal with the association's emblem. Mayor Robbers wants to temporarily provide a room in the town hall. At that time the board consisted of Johann Josef Aanderheyden (by profession a painter), Gerhard Aanstoot, Johann Franz Haan (elementary school teacher and organist) and Heinrich Jakob Kuypers (businessman and 2nd member of the Calcar mayor). References to the work of the association in the 19th century are given in the book From Calcars Last Past by Ms. Kühnen. On page 83 he writes: "On April 25, 1853 [...] the mayor Eduard Backer was presented with the 4th class Red Eagle Order in the presence of the local council and many other citizens from the district administrator of Haeften general participation of the citizens organized a torchlight procession, in which especially the Calcarer Musik- und Gesangsverein participated. " Kühnen also reports on page 88: "On August 3, 1860, the foundation stone was laid for the Seydlitz monument. [...] When the train leaves the town hall, the music begins the song 'Heil dir im Siegerkranz.' [...] The mayor reads out the document, locks it in the foundation stone, puts it under the usual three blows of the hammer. Meanwhile the Prussian song through the music. "
In 1976 the old Schellenbaum of the association was rediscovered during clearing work in the attic of the St. Nicolai Church . Its construction, in particular the use of the crescent symbol, suggests that it was built in the 19th century, as the use of this symbol was prohibited due to an order from Kaiser Wilhelm in 1902. On the photo of a Corpus Christi procession, the creation of which is estimated to be around 1910, you can see this bell tree in the center of the picture. The flag of the Kingdom of Prussia, which was valid from 1892 to 1918, hangs on the town hall tower. Because of these discoveries, the association has been referring to the founding year 1828 since May 3, 1975 and again bears its old name Musik Verein von Calcar . It is one of the oldest music associations in Germany. In 1981 Federal President Karl Carstens awarded him the Pro Musica plaque for more than 100 years of service to instrumental music making.
Since the early 1970s, the association experienced a significant upswing under the direction of Wilhelm Wienemann (conductor) and chairmen Heinz Wilmsen and Stephan Weber (from 1990). The orchestra doubled the number of its members to around 50, including women for the first time. The range of instruments was continuously expanded, especially in the area of woodwind instruments and drums. In the mid-1980s, saxophones were played for the first time. At the same time, the musical level rose. At the Christmas concerts that have taken place regularly since 1976 and the autumn concerts (since 1985), symphonic music is also an integral part of the concert programs. For example, the "Niederrheinische Tänze" suite was performed at the 1991 autumn concert under the direction of the composer Walter Gieseler . In the same year, the orchestra entered its first competition by participating in the 3rd German Orchestra Competition in Krefeld. In 1992 the association hosted the 2nd valuation game of the North Rhine-Westphalia brass band, in which 14 orchestras faced the jury's verdict, and was awarded 1st place. In 1993 he took part in the World Music Contest (WMC) in Kerkrade (NL) and won a 2nd prize. In 1994, Gerhard Plageman was the first professional wind orchestra conductor to take over the orchestra. Plageman (* 1951) studied music education at the Conservatory in Utrecht, majoring in trombone and wind orchestra direction (HaFaBra) a. a. with Henk van Lijnschooten . On the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the association, the autumn concert took place in 2003 in the form of an orchestral workshop under the direction of the composer Jacob de Haan .
Organization and repertoire
The music association of Calcar is a non-profit association and consists of the main orchestra, the youth orchestra, the association's own music education and the support association. The board consists of Christiane Boenke (chairwoman), Christina Niehoff (secretary and deputy chairwoman) and Petra Ehmig (cashier). The repertoire ranges from traditional marching music to arrangements ( transcriptions ) from rock, pop and film music to symphonic brass music . In the cultural and social life of the city of Kalkar, the association takes on the musical framework for secular and church festivals and celebrations. As part of his autumn and Christmas concerts, he presents a wide range of popular and symphonic music.
Conductors
The orchestra has been under the direction of Wolbert Baars (* 1973) since 2010. Baars is a graduate of ISEB (Istituto Superiore Europeo Bandistico) in Trento (Italy), where he a. a. studied with Jan Cober . The second conductor has been Stephan Weber (* 1951), who completed a school music course with the main subjects piano, French horn and singing at the Cologne University of Music, has acted as the second conductor.
List of previous conductors
- Edmund Krieg (1927 to 1945)
- Karl Rucinski (1948 to 1949)
- Gerhard Maas (1950)
- Edmund Gens (1950 to 1952)
- Theo Völling (1955 to 1957)
- Heinrich Seesing (1957 to 1965)
- Heinrich Boothe (1965 to 1972)
- Wilhelm Wienemann (1972 to 1993)
- Stephan Weber (1994)
- Gerhard Plageman (1994 to 2009)
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Musik Verein von Calcar eV: Contact. In: www.musikverein-kalkar.de. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .