Wetziker School

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The Wetziker School is a group of Swiss composers who worked in Wetzikon in Zurich in the late 18th and early 19th centuries . It is aesthetically influenced by the Berlin song schools . The beginnings of the development of choral culture in the German-speaking area are essentially due to her.

The spiritual father of the group was the local pastor Johannes Schmidlin , who founded the world's first choral society, the Singgesellschaft Wetzikon , in 1755 . With his students Johann Heinrich Egli and Johann Jakob Walder , he essentially forms the actual Wetziker school. In a broader sense, his successor Hans Jakob Nägeli and especially his son  Hans Georg Nägeli also belong to the group; the latter combined Schmidlin's efforts with the pedagogical methods of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and thus helped choral singing to become a popular movement that spread throughout the German-speaking area by the middle of the 19th century.

The native Wetziker Johann Rudolf Weber , whose former mentor Hans Konrad Nägeli was a brother of Hans Georg Nägeli and later worked in the Bern area , can also be counted among the narrower circle . Other composers who are in the tradition of Pestalozzi and Nägeli and can therefore be regarded as distant representatives of the Wetziker School were Michael Traugott Pfeiffer (Aargau), Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (Lucerne), Samuel Weishaupt (Appenzell), Ferdinand Huber (St . Gallen) and Jean-Bernard Kaupert (Western Switzerland).