Swiss Society for New Music

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The Swiss Society for New Music (SGNM; French Société Suisse de Musique Contemporaine , SSMC; Italian Società Svizzera per la Musica Contemporanea , SSMC; English ISCM Switzerland ) is a national section of the International Society for New Music (ISCM). It is organized as an association and has its legal seat in Lausanne.

history

IGNM Switzerland was founded in October 1922 on the initiative of the Winterthur patron Werner Reinhart as one of the world's first ISCM regional sections. As 1st ISCM General Secretary, Reinhart had already played a key role in founding the umbrella organization in June 1922. The founding president of IGNM Switzerland was the composer and conductor Volkmar Andreae from Zurich. 1946–2001, the IGNM Switzerland shared the secretariat with the Swiss Association of Musicians on an initiative by Paul Sacher . In 1995 the IGNM Switzerland in the Künstlerhaus Boswil was renamed the Swiss Society for New Music (SGNM / SSMC). Its aim is to promote contemporary music .

The SGNM includes the Swiss IGNM local groups in Basel, Bern, Lausanne, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lucerne, Central Switzerland, St. Gallen and Valais as well as various festivals and ensembles for new music as members.

The association has hosted the ISCM World Music Days a total of six times: 1926 (Zurich), 1929 (Geneva), 1957 (Zurich), 1970 (Basel), 1991 (Zurich) and the ISCM World Music Days 2004 under the direction by Mathias Steinauer under the motto “Trans it”.

The annals of the World Music Days in Switzerland include several premieres of musical history, including the highly acclaimed world premiere of Anton Webern's 5 Orchestral Pieces op.10 under his direction in 1926 , and the staged world premiere of Arnold Schönberg's opera fragment Moses und Aron in 1957 in Zurich . In 1957 - also in Zurich - electronic music was played for the first time in the history of the ISCM World Music Days.

List of presidents

Volkmar Andreae (1922, until 1928 in personal union with the STV presidium), Hans Ehinger (1934, ad interim), Paul Sacher (1935, from 1946 in personal union with the STV presidium), Samuel Baud-Bovy (1955, in personal union with the STV-Presidium), Paul Müller (1960, in personal union with the STV-Presidium), Constantin Regamey (1963, in personal union with the STV-Presidium), Hermann Haller (1968, in personal union with the STV-Presidium), Julien -François Zbinden (1973, in personal union with the STV Presidium), Francis Travis (1974), Fritz Muggler (1978), Jean-Luc Darbellay (1995), Max E. Keller (2007), Nicolas Farine (2010), Javier Hagen (2014). (Starting year in brackets)

literature

  • Anton Haefeli: The International Society for New Music - Your History from 1922 to the Present. Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-7611-0596-7 .
  • Joseph Willimann: pro Musica - for the sake of new music. 50 years of Pro Musica, Zurich branch of the International Society for New Music . Atlantis music book, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-254-00148-6 .
  • Thomas Meyer: World Music Days Zurich 1991 / World Music Days Zurich 1991 - program . Swiss Society for Contemporary Music c / o SAFIMM, NZZ Fretz AG, Schlieren 1991.
  • B. Geller, M. Favre, A. Briner, P.-A. Gaillard: Tendances et réalisations - volume commémoratif publié à l'occasion du 75e anniversaire de l'Association des musiciens suisses, 1900–1975 . Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein / Association Suisse des Musiciens, Atlantis Musikbuch Verlag, Zurich 1975, ISBN 978-376110464-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Meyer: World Music Days Zurich 1991 / World Music Days Zurich 1991 - program . Schlieren 1991, p. XVI
  2. ^ Founding confirmation IGNM Switzerland, letter from Werner Reinhart of October 31, 1922, p. 1, with the kind permission of the Winterthur City Libraries
  3. ^ Founding confirmation of IGNM Switzerland, letter from Werner Reinhart of October 31, 1922, p. 2, with the kind permission of the Winterthur City Libraries
  4. ^ Founding confirmation IGNM Switzerland, letter from Werner Reinhart of October 31, 1922, p. 3, with the kind permission of the Winterthur City Libraries
  5. ^ Anton Haefeli: The International Society for New Music - Your History from 1922 to the Present. Zurich 1982, p. 621
  6. ^ Thomas Meyer: World Music Days Zurich 1991 / World Music Days Zurich 1991 - program . Schlieren 1991, p. XVI
  7. ^ Members of the IGNM Switzerland
  8. ↑ List of all ISCM World Music Days
  9. ^ Anton Haefeli: The International Society for New Music - Your History from 1922 to the Present. Zurich 1982, p. 146
  10. ^ Anton Haefeli: The International Society for New Music - Your History from 1922 to the Present. Zurich 1982, p. 514
  11. ^ Anton Haefeli: The International Society for New Music - Your History from 1922 to the Present. Zurich 1982, p. 513
  12. ↑ Schweizer Musikzeitung , December 18, 2013