Swiss brass band association
| Swiss Brass Music Association (SBV) | |
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| Founded | 1862 |
| Place of foundation | Olten |
| president | Valentin Bishop |
| societies | 2,075 |
| Members | 76,000 |
| Homepage | http://www.windband.ch/ |
The Swiss Brass Band Association (SBV) ( French Association suisse des musiques , Italian Associazione bandistica svizzera , Rhaeto-Romanic Uniun svizra da musica ) unites 32 member and sub-associations and over two thousand brass music associations in Switzerland.
This was founded in 1862 as the Eidgenössischer Musikverein in Olten and is the first national association in European brass music.
Purpose and activities
With its member and sub-associations, the association has set itself the goal of promoting brass music, getting young people interested and enthusiastic about this cultural asset, and supporting their training. It represents these interests vis-à-vis the authorities and in particular vis-à-vis the media, and is politically and denominationally neutral.
These goals are implemented in over 2,000 associations in all parts of the country and members are given the opportunity to make music themselves. All social classes are represented in the clubs. The music played ranges from symphonic wind orchestra music to contemporary light music and includes all styles of music and line-up types (brass band).
At the national level, he is the organizer of the Federal Music Festival . The Eidgenössische Musikverein held the first Federal Music Festival in Solothurn in 1864 . Today it takes place every five years with over twenty thousand musicians from all regions of Switzerland.
He gives the association magazine unison The Swiss Journal of brass music ( French Le magazine suisse de musique pour vents , Italian La rivista Svizzera di musica bandistica , Romansh La revista svizra da musica Instrumentala ) out and maintain its own website.
history
The invention of the valves on brass instruments around 1820 led to an increasing number of private music societies that were organized in clubs . Today in almost every Swiss village there is a brass band as a harmony music , brass band , with brass ( fanfare ) or as a metal harmony (fanfare mixed). Most of the clubs that still exist today came into being after the Eidgenössische Blechmusikgesellschaft was founded in 1862 (from 1905 the Eidgenössische Musikverein, since 1989 the Swiss Brass Band Association).
Until the 1960s, when music schools were founded everywhere, it was the local brass music clubs that enabled children and young people to learn a musical instrument.
The next Federal Music Festival is to take place in Interlaken in 2021 .
Web links
- Official website of the Swiss Brass Band Association
- Speech by Federal Councilor Alain Berset on September 1, 2012 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Swiss Brass Band Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information platform about brass music in Switzerland
- ↑ SRF of January 18, 2017: Young talent problems at the Swiss brass band associations
- ↑ The Lucerne School of Music (MHS) and the Lucerne School of Social Work (HSA) are conducting an investigation on behalf of the Swiss Brass Band Association into the young talent situation in Swiss brass band associations ( 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.
- ↑ Christoph Buchs: Will Interlaken grab another federal festival? In: Berner Zeitung. March 7, 2017, accessed January 8, 2020 .
