Collegium musicum

Collegium Musicum was the common from the 16th to the 18th century, especially in German-speaking and rediscovered in the 20th century term for a private association of music lovers.

Frequently, the members came from a bourgeois or studentischem environment and make music together, but could collegia musica also allow listeners and took few professional musicians on.

In the 16th century collegia musica were mostly dominated by vocal music; However, their flowering time they had in the 17th and 18th centuries, where they mainly dealt with instrumental works. The first public concerts a Collegium Musicum found 1660 in Hamburg under the direction of Matthias Weckmann instead. Later, the Collegium Musicum in 1701 by Georg Philipp Telemann founded in Leipzig and continuing among others by Johann Sebastian Bach was known to the public.

In the 19th century lost the designation " Collegium Musicum ", to 1908 Hugo Riemann again an association of that name established and thus gave impetus for the popularity of such designation. A returning to the tradition of Bach's Collegium and the historical performance practice verpflichtetes New Bachisches Collegium Musicum founded in 1979 in Leipzig.

Today, especially university music associations form a "Collegium Musicum ", including

• Collegium Musicum of the RWTH Aachen
• Collegium Musicum Basel
• Collegium Musicum Jenense
• Telemannisches cal Collegium Musicum