New Bachisches Collegium Musicum

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The New Bachische Collegium Musicum (NBCM) is a Leipzig chamber orchestra .

In 1979 Max Pommer and Walter Heinz Bernstein founded the chamber orchestra together with musicians from the Gewandhausorchester and in cooperation with the Bach Archive with the aim of transferring the latest scientific findings on historical performance practice to modern instruments.

The name Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum goes back to the student Collegium Musicum founded in 1701 by Georg Philipp Telemann at the University of Leipzig , which Johann Sebastian Bach directed from 1729 to 1737 and after 1739. This led to the soon Bachisches Collegium Orchestra named in Zimmermann's coffeehouse his secular cantatas and instrumental compositions, for example, composed for the Collegium of it Coffee Cantata (BWV 211) . This chamber orchestra developed into the Great Concert founded in 1743 , the predecessor of the Gewandhaus Concerts that have existed since 1781.

The first musical director of the NBCM was Max Pommer. He quickly made the ensemble internationally known through many record productions (including the 1985 German Record Critics' Prize for the recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concerts ). Artists such as Ludwig Güttler , Christine Schornsheim and the Thomanerchor Leipzig took part in the NBCM's CD productions .

In 1988 the renowned oboist Burkhard Glaetzner took over the direction. He opened the repertoire towards the early classical and classical periods.

From 2003 to 2013 the former Gewandhaus concertmaster and current professor for violin and subject didactics in Cologne, Albrecht Winter, was musical director. He increasingly played the historical music of Bach again, but also the Italians Vivaldi and Corelli , as well as Telemann, the Bach sons and the composers from the early Gewandhaus era. From 2009 to 2011, the NBCM played music in the Gewandhaus - in the Historical Concerts series - that was played 225 years earlier in the original concert hall. For this purpose, the concert programs were reconstructed on the basis of 225 year old program sheets. The initial spark for this series was the reconstruction of the very first Gewandhaus concert from 1781, with which the NBCM concluded the Gewandhaus Festival Weeks for the 225th anniversary of the Gewandhaus in 2006.

Since 2013 the NBCM has been working without a permanent artistic director, but with renowned guests such as Georg Kallweit and Stephan Mai from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Nadja Zwiener from The English Concert .

In cooperation with the City History Museum Leipzig , the NBCM organizes the concert series Bachische Abend-Musicken in the ballroom of the Old Town Hall .

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