City chapel Memmingen
The Stadtkapelle Memmingen is a wind orchestra from the Upper Swabian city of Memmingen . Its history goes back to the year 1410. It has been directed by Stadtkapellmeister Markus Peter since 2019.
history
"Stadtpfeifer und -musici" were first mentioned in the chronicles in 1410. Since then, music groups have been reported in the chronicles and minutes in the city archives, for example in 1602 from the musical accompaniment of the morning and evening sermons in St. Martin. From 1613 the city employed three paid wind players and four from 1624. They also had to do the guard duty on the Martinsturm. Since the Thirty Years' War , the music groups have mainly accompanied the Meistersinger and the performances of the Swabian State Theater . They gave music lessons in the city's Latin schools. In 1655, Christoph Schorer established another music association, the Collegium Musicum . Every fortnight, the urban upper class of clergy, lawyers, doctors and other citizens met to sing and play musical instruments together. The chapel accompanied the service in St. Martin as early as 1659 . In 1660 the group already had 56 members. In 1662 the band withdrew from church music after a dispute with the clergy. However, it is repeatedly reported in the sources of the city archive that the Collegium occasionally accompanied the service with music until 1755.
In 1970 the conductor Herbert Becker transformed the leisure band into a high-level wind orchestra. From 1994 to 2019 Johnny Ekkelboom directed the band as conductor and city music director. Under him she successfully took part in many musical competitions. His successor since June 1, 2019 is Markus Peter. The band consists of around 65 musicians.
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- 3rd place at the State Music Festival 1995 in Füssen
- 1st place at the State Music Festival of North Rhine-Westphalia 1st – 4th May 1997 in Brilon
- 4th place out of 11 participants in the German Orchestra Competition 2000 in Karlsruhe (21.1 out of 25 points)
- 17th place out of 22 participants in the Harmony category (1st division) at the Wereld Muziek Concours in Kerkrade 2005 (82 out of 100 points, silver medal)
- 2nd place from 3 participants in the Bavarian Orchestra Competition 2007 in Bad Windsheim
- Silver ribbon at the International Brass Music Festival 2008 in Prague (445 points)
- 2nd place out of 9 participants in the German Orchestra Competition 2008 in Wuppertal in the wind orchestra category (23.3 out of 25 points)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Wolf: The history of the city of Memmingen - From the beginnings to the end of the imperial city, page 659-660 . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8062-1315-1 .
- ↑ Sing- & Musikschule Memmingen: Markus Peter. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
- ↑ List of results on ovhilgen.de. Retrieved August 15, 2008 .
- ↑ Results list of the WMC 2005 on vrienden-wmc.nl. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 15, 2008 . ( 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.
- ↑ List of results on musikinbayern.de. Retrieved August 15, 2008 .
- ↑ List of results at the German Music Council. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 15, 2008 . ( 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.
