Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde

The Society of Friends of Music in Vienna (short: Wiener Musikverein ) is a traditional club in Vienna to promote musical culture. It was founded in 1812.

Foundation

On 29 November and 3 December 1812, the Handel oratorio Timothy was listed in the Winter Riding School of the Vienna Hofburg. This concert can be considered as a trigger for the founding of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna. As the founder of the Association shall Sonnleithner Joseph (1766-1835), then secretary of the imperial Viennese court theater (Burgtheater and Kärntnertortheater ). The proceeds of the two concerts should benefit the newly founded institution. Emperor Franz I donated 1,000 guilders, net profit amounted to 25 934 guilders finally Viennese currency. First office of the company was the Palais Lobkowitz today Lobkowitzplatz.

Objectives

According to its statutes, which originated in 1814, is the " Empor Brin narrowing of music in all its branches " primary purpose of the Company.

The Friends of Music Society reached ( e) this in three ways:

The foundation of a conservatory,
The systematic collection of musicological documents (archive )
The event its own concerts.

To date, private commitment of individual members shapes the functioning of the Company. Since January 2000, all editions of the monthly newspaper club music lovers on the website of the company are available.

Concerts

On the initiative of Antonio Salieri first choir activities of the Musikverein go back to the example, was in 1824 also participated in the Vienna Initial or world premieres of Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and 9th Symphony. After it had already given choral concerts of the association for years, then found in 1858 the official inauguration of the concert choir rather than a club branch of the Vienna Musikverein. The first principal conductor of the Vienna Singing Society was Johann von Herbeck, directs the choir since 1991 John Prince.

First concert hall of the society

1829, the Company purchased a scoring for Kärnthnerviertl house on the Tuchlauben ( home to the red hedgehog, rented from 1822, then House # 558, today Tuchlauben 12 ) with several business offices and apartments, it tore down and gave Franz Lossl ( Construction Management: Carl högl ) by around 88,000 guilders (including equipment) the establishment of a three-storey new building with a concert hall on the 1st floor in order. The site was approximately opposite the former furnace Lochgasse, since 1863 Kleeblattgasse. The conflagration at that time branched here not of Tuchlauben from, but was as a small square near St. Stephen's Cathedral.

The festival opening concert of the hall took place on November 4, 1831 instead (then raged in Vienna cholera ). The Musikverein was, among other things at this site ( visitors strong concerts were still in the large ball room of the Hofburg ) essential to the public concert life in Vienna with.

The hall proved with 700 seats soon be too small, but was still used for almost 40 years. 1846 gas lighting was installed. In the upper floors of the Conservatory and the archives of the Society, offices and rehearsal rooms were housed.

The Society of Friends of Music in 1870 moved into their new house and sold her first house in the same year. In the subsequent use of it was, inter alia, the Strampfer Theatre. The building was demolished in 1885.

Today's office of the Company

1863, Emperor Franz Joseph I. of the company from the Treasury, the area on the banks of the Wien River opposite St. Charles Church. It was on the former glacis before the 1858 demolished city walls surrounding the old town. Nearby 1861-1869 was today's Vienna State Opera, on the neighboring construction site on the riverbank 1865-1868 Vienna Künstlerhaus, on the Ringstrasse adjacent square 1862-1865 the present Hotel Imperial.

The Theophil Hansen, who later built the Parliament, designed house, shortened to Vienna Musikverein, was opened on January 6, 1870 with a celebratory concert. That same year, the High Steward of the Emperor, Prince Constantine was appointed to Hohenlohe, in gratitude for the favor of the imperial court for the new building project as an honorary member of the society.

1869 Carl Heissler was the first conductor of the orchestra of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna. 1871 and 1872 was the Russian composer Anton Rubinstein artistic director of the company. After a short time he was replaced by Johannes Brahms.

Children and Youth Projects

In order to convey the joy of music and access to classical culture children and adolescents, the Friends of Music Society offers a program to: In April 1989, there was the first "Celebration for Children " in all the rooms of the Musikverein building, since the offer has been steadily expanded and now includes more than 150 projects for all ages 3-19 years. The 20 - year anniversary of the youth concerts was celebrated with a big party at the Vienna Musikverein in 2009. Symbol of child and youth concerts of the Philharmonic Society 's concert Clown Allegretto.

Artistic performances are prepared in accordance with the respective age requirements, with particular attention is paid to opportunities for active participation. This includes sing along and dance along the little ones, a gallery of children's drawings on the Internet and artist talks under the slogan "meet the artist" with internationally renowned conductors, soloists and composers for 15 - to 19 - year-old.

Conservatorium of Friends of Music Society

The Conservatory was the first public music school in Vienna and was founded in 1819 under the violinist Joseph Böhm. As early as the year 1818 began Kapellmeister Antonio Salieri to form a singing class. The general musical newspaper wrote about here on January 7, 1818: "As the beginning of a newly established Conservatory imparts to our worthy Hofkapellm. Salieri already 12 girls and 12 boys a gratuitous singing lessons. "

On 19 April, the first 24 students of the Conservatory presented in a society concert of music lovers to the public and singing an A cappella choral Salieri. The dedication on the autograph reads: " Ringraziamento because farsi alli Benefattori del Conservatorio della musica nazionale inglese dalli primi Ventiquattro allieve dodici Ragazzi e Ragazze dodici, di detto luogo, nella quarta accademia dei il giorno dilettanti 19 Aprile 1818 ".

In the 19th century, this device has been greatly expanded, counted in the 1890s more than 1,000 students and was held in Vienna in other such facilities imitation. In 1909, the private institute was to resolution of the emperor as "kk Academy of Music and Dramatic Art " nationalized. Thus, it is the predecessor of today's University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Personalities

Founder

Joseph Sonnleithner (1766-1835)

Co-founder

Fanny von Arnstein (1758-1818)
Prince Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz (1772-1816), Major General, art lover and patron

Famous members

Leopold von Sonnleithner (1797-1873), lawyer and music collectors
January Václav Voříšek (1791-1825), composer, pianist and organist, member from 1818.
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), full member from June 12, 1827

Concert directors

Carl Heissler (1823-1878), Artis Phonetic Director 1869-1871
Anton Rubinstein, Artistic Director 1871-1872
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), concert director 1872-1875
Eduard Fine (1825-1879), Ministerial and Composer, Director 1870
Johann von Herbeck (1831-1877), conductor and composer
Hans Richter (1843-1916), conductor, director until 1900
Franz Schalk (1863-1931), concert director 1904-1921
Ferdinand Löwe (1865-1925), concert director
Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954), concert director 1921-1927 (together with Leopold Reich wine)
Leopold Empire Wine (1878-1945), concert director 1921-1927 (together with Wilhelm Furtwängler)
Robert Heger (1886-1978), concert director 1925-1933
Walter Legge (1906-1979), director from 1946
Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), Last Concert Director 1948-1964

Vice President

Raphael Georg Kiesewetter (1773-1850), Privy Councillor and musicians, vice president 1821-1843
Nikolaus Dumba (1830-1900), industrialist, Vice President in 1880
Gustav Ortner ( b. 1935 ), diplomat, vice-president since 2001

Directorate members

Heinrich Eduard Josef von Lannoy (1787-1853), conductor and composer, member
Martin Gustav Nottebohm (1817-1882), musicologist and composer, member from 1858
Anthony van Hoboken (1887-1983), musicologist and collector, member since 1957
Brothers Czartoryski, 1870

Secretaries

Leopold Alexander Zellner, General Secretary in 1880
Botstiber Hugo (1875-1941), secretary and office director 1905-1912
Angyan Thomas ( born 1953 ), Secretary General and Artistic Director since 1988

Archivist

Martin Gustav Nottebohm, 1864
Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857-1929), musicologist and composer, from 1887
Karl Geiringer (1899-1989), musicologist and librarian, 1930-1938
Otto Biba ( born 1946 ), musicologist and director of archives, since 1979

Honorary Members

A

Claudio Abbado, 1991 (1933-2014) Guido Adler, 1928 (1885-1941) Countess Anna Amadei, 1898 (1828-1927) Rudolf Graf Amadei, 1898 (1914-1898) August Wilhelm Ambros, 1872 (1816-1876) Daniel Francois Auber, 1836 (1782-1871)

B

Wilhelm Backhaus, 1928 (1884-1969) Giuseppe Abbate Baini, 1836 (1775-1844) Daniel Barenboim, 2008 ( b. 1942) Carl Ferdinand Becker, 1842 (1804-1877) Ludwig van Beethoven, 1826 (1770-1827) Charles Auguste de Bériot, 1842 (1802-1870) Hector Berlioz, 1846 (1803-1869) Leonard Bernstein, 1988 (1918-1990) Josef Freiherr von Bezecny, 1898 (1829-1900) Louis of Bignio, 1871 (1839-1907) Heinrich Edler von gems Billing, 1896 (1834-1908) Joseph Böhm, 1871 (1795-1876) Karl Böhm, 1973 (1894-1981) François Adrien Boieldieu, 1829 (1775-1834) Ludwig Bösendorfer, 1870 (1835-1919) Count Karl Bomb Elles, 1888 (1832-1889) Francisco de Paula de Borbón, 1818 (1794-1865) Auguste de Bottee Toulmon, 1841 (1797-1850) Pierre Boulez, 2004 ( b. 1925 ) Johannes Brahms, 1876 (1833-1897) Anton Bruckner, 1891 (1824-1896) Rudolf Buchbinder, 2007 (b. 1946) Ole Bornemann Bull, 1839 (1810-1880)

C

Pablo Casals, 1930 (1876-1973) Friedrich Cerha, 2007 ( b. 1926 ) Emil Freiherr von Chertek, 1908 (1833-1922) Maria Luigi Cherubini, 1827 (1760-1842) Friedrich Chrysander, 1895 (1826-1901) Prince Władysław Czartoryski, 1870 (1828-1894)

D

Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn, 1842 (1799-1858) Josef Dessauer, 1871 (1798-1876) Theodor Dohler, 1842 (1814-1856) Gaetano Donizetti, 1842 (1797-1848) Friedrich Edler von Mährentheim Dratschmiedt, 1870 (1801-1885) Nikolaus Dumba, 1877 (1830-1900) Marie Louise Dustmann -Meyer, 1871 (1831-1899) Antonín Dvořák, 1895 (1841-1904)

E

Franz Egger, 1870 (1810-1877) Gustav Egger, 1902 (1845-1926) Gottfried von Einem, 1976 (1918-1996) Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, 1839 (1814-1865) Heinrich Esser, 1871 (1818-1872) Josef Edler von Eybler, 1826 (1765-1846)

F

Francois Joseph Fetis, 1829 (1784-1871) Gottfried Wilhelm Fink, 1837 (1783-1846) Infant of Spain, Francisco de Paula de Borbón, 1818 (1794-1865) George Albert Freiherr von and Franckenstein, 1935 (1878-1953) Robert Franz, 1886 (1815-1892) Wilhelm Furtwängler, 1927 (1886-1954)

G

Ossip Gabrilowitsch, 1930 (1870-1936) Wenzel Graf Gallen Berg, 1829 (1783-1839) Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García, 1905 (1805-1906) Ferdinand Simon Gassner, 1842 (1798-1851) Gautsch Paul Freiherr von Thurn francs, 1888 (1851-1918) Wilhelm Gericke, 1884 (1854-1925) Francois Auguste Gevaert, 1895 (1828-1908) Carlo Maria Giulini, 1978 (1914-2005) Karl Goldmark, 1887 (1845-1922) Caroline of Gomperzes - Bettelheim, 1871 (1918-1893) Charles Gounod, 1888 (1818-1893) Edvard Grieg, 1895 (1843-1907) Franz Grillparzer, 1871 (1791-1872) Jacob Moritz Green, 1909 (1836-1916) Alfred Grünfeld, 1922 (1852-1924) Adalbert Gyrowetz, 1826 (1763-1850)

B

Jacques Fromental Halévy, 1841 (1799-1862) Eduard Hanslick, 1895 (1825-1904) Nikolaus Harnoncourt, 1992 ( b. 1929 ) Wilhelm Ritter von Hartel, 1903 (1839-1907) Joseph Alexander Freiherr von Helfert, 1870 (1820-1910) Georg Hellmesberger, 1871 (1800-1873) Josef Hellmesberger, 1877 (1828-1893) Johann Ritter von Herbeck, 1871 (1831-1877) Ferdinand Hiller, 1852 (1811-1885) Paul Hindemith, 1952 (1895-1963) Anthony van Hoboken, 1974 (1887-1983) Duke Konstantin Hohenlohe, 1870 (1828-1896) Robert Holl, 1997 ( b. 1947) Alexander Hryntschak, 1961 (1891-1974) Bronislaw Huberman, 1932 (1882-1947) Johann Nepomuk Hummel, 1826 (1778-1837)

J

Mariss Jansons, 2000 ( b. 1943 ) Joseph Joachim, 1881 (1831-1907)

K

Herbert von Karajan, 1949 (1908-1989) Wilhelm Kienzl, 1926 (1857-1941) Raphael Georg Kiesewetter Edler von, 1843 (1773-1850) Hans Knappertsbusch, 1948 (1888-1965) Adolf Koch Edler von Lange Trust, 1886 (1829-1920) Ludwig Ritter von Kochel, 1872 (1800-1877) Johann Baptist Krall, 1881 (1803-1883) Ernst Kraus, 1921 (1867-1945) Eduard Kremser, 1910 (1838-1914) Ernst Krenek, 1988 (1900-1991) Conradin Kreutzer, 1836 (1780-1849) Josef Krips, 1973 (1902-1974) Franz Krommer, 1826 (1760-1831) Wilhelm Kux, 1947 (1864-1965)

L

Franz Lachner, 1837 (1803-1890) Howard Chandler Robbins Landon, 1989 (1926-2009) Johann Freiherr von Lasser, 1862 (1815-1879) Heinrich Laube, 1877 (1806-1884) Jean -Francois Le Sueur, 1826 (1760-1837) Josef Lewinsky, 1878 (1835-1907) Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein, 1870 (1840-1929) Peter Josef von Lindpaintner, 1836 (1791-1856) Franz Liszt, 1838 (1811-1886) Moritz Ritter von Loehr, 1870 (1810-1874) Karl Leo, 1852 (1796-1869) Baroness Pauline Lucca Wall Mayrhofen, 1879 (1842-1908) Alexis Lwoff, 1852 (1799-1871)

M

Eusebius Mandyczewski, 1917 (1857-1929) Gustav Marchet, 1909 (1846-1916) Grand Duchess Maria Pavlova of Russia, 1814 (1786-1859) Heinrich Marschner, 1841 (1795-1861) Jules Massenet, 1902 (1845-1981) Amalie Materna Friedrich, 1888 (1844-1918) Franz Freiherr von Matzinger, 1870 (1817-1896) Friedrich Freiherr von Mayr, 1880 (1822-1894) Baron Otto Mayr, 1972 (1887-1977) Josef Mayseder, 1852 (1789-1863) Zubin Mehta, 2005 ( b. 1936 ) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1837 (1809-1847) Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante, 1842 (1795-1870) Princess Pauline Metternich - Winneburg, 1892 (1836-1921) Richard Prince Klemens von Metternich - Winneburg, 1892 (1829-1895) Leopold Edler von Meyer, 1843 (1816-1893) Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1836 (1791-1864) Count Anton Miari, 1829 (1787-1854) William Bernard Molique, 1839 (1802-1869) Ignaz Moscheles, 1844 (1794-1870) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( son ), 1840 ( 1791-1844 ) Eugen Mravinsky, 1978 (1903-1988) Riccardo Muti, 1995 ( b. 1941 )

N

Sigismund von Neukomm, 1842 (1788-1858) Vaclav Neumann, 1987 (1920-1995)

O

David Oistrakh, 1974 (1908-1974) George Onslow, 1836 (1784-1852) Carl Orff, 1979 (1895-1982)

P

Elias Parish Alvars, 1847 (1808-1849) Adolf Ritter von Parmentier, 1883 (1803-1887) Krzysztof Penderecki, 1999 ( b. 1933) Hans Pfitzner, 1926 (1869-1949) Gustav Freiherr von Prandau, 1877 (1807-1885) Georges Pretre, 2003 ( b. 1924) Hermann Prey, 1980 (1929-1998) Emanuel Knight of Proskowetz, 1932 (1849-1944)

R

Anton Radziwill, 1814 (1775-1833) Franz Ritter von Zapory, 1909 (1830-1918) Karl Reinecke, 1895 (1824-1910) Karl Reissiger, 1837 (1798-1859) Hans Richter, 1891 (1843-1916) Ferdinand Ries, 1836 (1784-1836) Friedrich Rochlitz, 1826 (1769-1842) Hans Freiherr von Rokitansky, 1878 (1835-1909) Gioacchino Rossini, 1868 (1792-1868) Mstislav Rostropovich, 2002 (1927-2007) Marcel Rubin, 1986 (1905-1995) Anton Rubinstein, 1871 (1829-1894)

S

Duke Ernst II of Saxe -Coburg- Gotha, 1852 (1818-1893) Camille Saint- Saens, 1901 (1835-1921) Emil von Sauer, 1912 (1862-1942) Wolfgang Sawallisch, 1998 ( b. 1923 ) Franz Schalk, 1912 (1863-1931) Anton Ritter von Schmerling, 1862 (1805-1893) Karl Schmid, 1871 (1825-1873) August Schmidt, 1871 (1802-1891) Franz Schmidt, 1928 (1874-1939) Friedrich Schneider, 1836 (1786-1853) Peter Schreier, 1986 ( b. 1935 ) Robert Schumann, 1852 (1810-1856) Simon Sechter, 1852 (1788-1867) Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried, 1826 (1776-1841) Leopold von Sonnleithner, 1860 (1797-1873) Louis Spohr, 1826 (1784-1859) Gasparo Spontini, 1841 (1774-1851) Abbé Maximilian Stadler, 1826 (1746-1833) Horst Stein, 1990 ( b. 1928 ) Otto Strasser, 1987 (1902-1996) Johann Strauss, 1894 (1825-1899) Richard Strauss, 1916 (1864-1949) Igor Stravinsky, 1952 (1882-1971)

T

Sigismund Thalberg, 1938 (1812-1871) Ambroise Thomas, 1895 (1811-1896) Johann Wenzel Tomaschek, 1836 (1774-1850) Arturo Toscanini, 1937 (1867-1957)

U

Michael circulation, 1826 (1781-1842)

V

Giuseppe Verdi, 1880 (1813-1901) Johann Freiherr von Vesque Nailsworth, 1880 (1803-1883) Henri Vieuxtemps, 1843 (1820-1881) Robert Volkmann, 1876 (1815-1883)

W

Richard Wagner, 1872 (1813-1883) Bruno Walter, 1937 (1876-1962) Gustav Walter, 1871 (1834-1919) Joseph Walther von Herbst Castle, 1897 (1816-1891) Carl Maria von Weber, 1826 (1786-1826) Friedrich Dionys Weber, 1836 (1766-1842) Wilhelm Freiherr von Weckbecker, 1909 (1859-1936) Joseph Weigl, 1826 (1766-1846) Egon Wellesz, 1973 (1885-1974) Franz Welser- Möst, 2012 (1960) John Fane Earl of Westmoreland, 1844 (1774-1859) Count Klemens Westphalen, 1883 (1836-1887) Clara Wieck ( Schumann), 1838 ( 1819-1896 ) Franz Wilt, 1896 (1824-1909) Marie Wilt, 1871 (1833-1891) Hermann Winkelmann, 1907 (1849-1912) Johann Nepomuk August Wittasek, 1837 (1770-1839) Franz Wüllner, 1895 (1832-1902)

Z

Leopold Alexander Zellner, 1892 (1823-1894) Karl Friedrich Zelter, 1827 (1758-1832)

Honors

1961 belonged to the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna at the winners of Karl Renner Prize.

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