Hamburger Ratsmusik
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The Hamburger Ratsmusik was the name, in German, for the Hamburg city government musical establishment of Hamburg
during the baroque period. Ratsmusik was a generic term to distinguish from Hausmusik, domestic music making, during the Hanseatic
period.
It is also the name of a modern ensemble for early music. Hamburger Ratsmusik, led by Simone Eckert.
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
during the baroque period. Ratsmusik was a generic term to distinguish from Hausmusik, domestic music making, during the Hanseatic
Hanseatic
Hanseatic may refer to:* The Hanseatic League, a trading alliance in northern Europe in existence between the 13th and 17th centuries.* The Hanseatic , the synonym for the members of the upper class of the free imperial cities Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck since the middle of the 17th century after...
period.
It is also the name of a modern ensemble for early music. Hamburger Ratsmusik, led by Simone Eckert.
Directors
- 1608-1610 and 1613-1615 William BradeWilliam BradeWilliam Brade was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first Englishman to write a canzona, an Italian form, and probably the first to write a piece for solo violin.-Biography:Little is known...
- 1616- Christian Hildebrand
- 1621- Johann SchopJohann SchopJohann Schop was a German violinist and composer, much admired as a musician and a technician, who was a virtuoso and whose compositions for the violin set impressive technical demands for that area at that time. In 1756 Leopold Mozart commented on the difficulty of a trill in a work by Schop,...
, with a salary of 800 marks. - 1665- Samuel Peter Sidon
- 1667- Dietrich Becker
- 1678- Nicolaus Adam StrungkNicolaus Adam StrungkNicolaus Adam Strungk was a German composer and violinist.-Life:...
- 1682- Friedrich Nicolaus BraunsFriedrich Nicolaus BraunsFriedrich Nicolaus Brauns or Bruhns was a German composer and music director in Hamburg.Brauns was born in Lollfuß, Schleswig. In 1682 he succeeded Nicolaus Adam Strungk in charge of the Hamburger Ratsmusik, later also taking on the charge of St. Mary's Cathedral. He died in Hamburg...
- 1718- Hieronymus Oldenburg
- 1721- Georg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
- 1768- Carl Philipp Emanuel BachCarl Philipp Emanuel Bachright|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...
- 1789- Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwenke, the last Musikdirector of the five churches.