Musicians guild
In the Middle Ages, the musicians' guild was an association of traveling minstrels to form so-called brotherhoods , which were granted privileges to exercise their trade in certain districts. In the district assigned to a guild, no one was allowed to play or sing for money who did not belong to the guild.
The oldest corporation of this kind was the Nikolaibruderschaft, founded in Vienna in 1288 , which later stood under a musician bailiff and was given the supreme legal authority for disputes between musicians in a senior gaming office (only abolished in 1782).
Other musicians guilds are:
- the Confrérie de Saint-Julien des ménestriers in Paris (founded in 1330), which received royal privileges and lasted until 1773 ;
- the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in Uznach
- the Brotherhood of the crown in Strasbourg, the latter under the supervision of the Lords of Ribeaupierre , the four Pfeifer kings the executive ( Pfeifer right ) transferred
- the Musician's company of the city of London (confirmed in 1472), which received a marshal (for life) and two annually elected wardeins ( custodes ) and still exists today with modified institutions, including the organization and powers of these societies and their heads were large and large All the same everywhere.
Following the example of these corporations which then emerged in almost all cities since the 15th century guilds of the city or whistler ( city prong nest ), which under the leadership of a town musician ( city zinc master stood) and the magisterial privilege had in all public occasions such as civic events (Weddings, funerals etc.) to make the necessary music. According to the statutes of the guilds, everyone who wanted to become a member of the guilds was obliged to be trained as an apprentice by the town musician and to be properly released after the apprenticeship was over.
Individual evidence
- ↑ vBarre: About the brotherhood of Pfeifer in Alsace , Kalmar 1874
See also
source
- Musicians guilds . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 11, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 933.