Neue Bachgesellschaft
The New Bach Society ( NBA) is an association founded in Leipzig on January 27, 1900 registered organization with an international membership for the maintenance, distribution and scientific development of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The association realizes its purposes in particular by means of annual Bach festivals, the publication of the Bach - Jahrbuch, through its museum Bach House in Eisenach, Bach through his academies in Eastern Europe as well as built by him Johann Sebastian Bach Foundation.
History
The NBA is the ideal successor to the Bach-Gesellschaft, 1850, inter alia, was founded by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Otto Jahn, Ignaz Moscheles, Carl von Winterfeld, Louis Spohr, Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn, Carl Ferdinand Becker and Moritz Hauptmann with the aim of publishing the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach Complete Edition,. After the last volume had been submitted in 1899, the Bach Society sparked by statute on at its meeting on 27 January 1900.
In the final report of the last volume of the Bach Complete Edition stressed publisher Hermann Kretzschmar, that it is not sufficient to produce the works of old masters in critical revisions, but that their music must also be practically distributed, and called for the establishment of a new company with this purpose. In the same meeting on 27 January 1900, then further Blumner Martin, Siegfried Ochs, Joseph Joachim, Franz Wüllner constituted from the present members of the Bach Society, including (in addition to Hermann Kretzschmar ) the owner of the publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel Oskar von Hase, and Thomas Kantor Gustav Schreck, the New Bach Society.
The New Bach Society is like the Goethe Society one of the few imperial citizen clubs, which continue without interruption until today. The 1934 required by radical members of the 21 Bach Festival in Bremen inclusion in a Nazi cultural organization they escaped through a tactical amendment, which curtailed the powers of participation of its members. During the period of German division they persisted undivided, but after 25 June 1962, East-West parity occupation of the line positions. General meetings were held at Bach festivals, alternately in the Federal Republic and the GDR were held annually.
During the period of uncertainty about the continued existence of the NBG was founded in 1946 under the honorary presidency of the NBG- member Albert Schweitzer, the International Bach Society, headquartered in Schaffhausen.
The American membership of NBG split with regard to the political difficulties in Germany in 1972 by the NBA from and founded the American Bach Society.
NBG chairman since 1900:
The governing bodies of the NBA belonged in their history, including the following persons ( in alphabetical order, with duration of the activity for the NBA): Eugen d' Albert ( 1900-1907 ), Walter Blankenburg ( 1951-1986 ), Martin Blumner ( 1900-1902 ), Ferruccio Busoni (1900-1924), Georg von Dadelsen (1962-1997), Alfred Dürr (1951-1996), Martin Flämig (1974-1990), Wilhelm Furtwängler (1927-1949), Wilibald Gurlitt (1951-1963), Diethard Hellmann (1976-1999), Joseph Joachim (1900-1907), Hermann Kretzschmar (1900-1924), Gustav Mahler (1900-1911), Christian Mahrenholz (1933-1980), Henri Marteau (1910-1921), Erhard Mauersberger (1959-1982), Rudolf Mauersberger (1937-1970), Werner Neumann (1961-1981), Siegfried Ochs (1900-1929), Günther Ramin (1927-1956), Max Reger (1907-1910), Wolfgang Rehm ( 1962-1974), Hans -Joachim Rotzsch (1972-1991), Arnold Schering (1907-1941), Gustav Schreck (1900-1918), Albert Schweitzer (1927-1951), Georg Schumann (1900-1952), Max Seiffert ( 1930-1948), Julius Smend (1902-1930), Oskar Söhngen (1951-1982), Friedrich Spitta (1900-1907), Fritz Steinbach (1900-1916), Julius Stockhausen (1900-1906), Karl Straube (1907 - 1950), Kurt Thomas ( 1934-1961 ), Helmut Walcha ( 1955-1962 ), Felix Weingartner ( 1900-1921 ), Christoph Wolff ( 1981-2012 ), Franz Wüllner ( 1900-1902 ).
Membership
The NBA is now an international organization with 3,145 members (as of 31 December 2008) is the first chairman of the theologian and preacher at St. Thomas' Church Martin Petzoldt (Leipzig), second chairman is the Kreuzkantor Roderich Kreile ( Dresden). Club seat is the house church in the Burgstr. 1-5 ( On Thomas Cemetery), Leipzig. The general meetings are held at the annual Bach festivals of society.
Bach Festivals
Best known is the NBA through their regular Bach festivals at different locations in Germany, occasionally also in other European countries. The (first ) holding regular Bach festivals was the original idea of founding member of the NBG Hermann Kretzschmar, who had been through this several-day Bach Festivals in London ( 1895) and the inauguration of Eisenach Bach monument (1884 ) suggested. He demanded to introduce Bach festivals in the NBA remained unknown works of Bach and discuss pending issues to Bach's work and its performance. This Bach Festivals were to become the " central and focal point for all admirers of Bach ".
The Bach festivals in the NBA were initially approximately every two years, and later held annually. A popularization thrust brought the kingdom Bach Festival, which was Bach's 250th birthday, at the same time, however, celebrated in 1935 in Leipzig (where the participation of the NBA) in other cities in Germany that year and its events have also been transmitted via radio. While in the early years, each a committee of the NBA took over the organization and this financing, today is limited to the role of the NBG to the ideal sponsorship for locally supported and organized events by approximately 5 - to 14-day period, provided that the guidelines of the Society suffice. The ' wandering ' Bach festivals in the NBA instigated the creation of local Bach Festival traditions what about the Bach Week in Ansbach (since 1947), the Bach Festival (since 1969) and the Leipzig Bach Festival include (annually since 1999).
Since its inception, the Bach festivals in the NBA were held in the following locations or are there (so-called k = ' little Bach Festival ' of shorter duration) in planning:
Bach-Jahrbuch
The publication of the Bach - Jahrbuch is beside the creek festivals another Uncommitted project in its Statute, the NBG. Since his first appearance in 1904, it developed under the editorship of Bach scholars like Arnold Schering, Alfred Dürr, Hans -Joachim Schulze and Christoph Wolff and Peter Wollny one of the most respected periodicals of international Bach research.
Bach House in Eisenach
The Bach House in Eisenach and its collections include since 1907 to the set out in its articles of association projects the NBA. After 1902, the old St. Thomas School was demolished in Leipzig and Eisenach the sale and demolition of house wife plan 21 threatened, which was then considered the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, Siegfried Ochs taught on the 2nd Bach Festival, the NBG in Leipzig in 1904 the appeal to the members to engage in a purchase of the house and set up a herein Bach Museum. After the receipt of the proceeds from benefit concerts around by Joseph Joachim and Georg Schumann as well as donations of about Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Leipzig music publishers Breitkopf & Härtel and CF Peters and numerous individuals, the purchase agreement was signed on 15 May 1905. On May 27, 1907, the Bach House in Eisenach was opened as the first museum of Johann Sebastian Bach.
First, the Bach house was directly operated by the NBA and acted as their second office next to the Leipzig club seat. The operation of the Bach House was acquired from 1972 until the end of the GDR by the Council of the Wartburg City (subject to the ownership of the NBA) on political pressure. Since July 5, 2001, the operation of the Bach House is performed by the Bach House in Eisenach profit company whose sole shareholder is the NBA.
The Bach House in Eisenach was repeatedly structurally extended, most recently in 2007. Today it has about 60,000 visitors every year after the Beethoven House in Bonn 's most visited Musicians Museum in Germany and points to 600 m² 250 original objects to life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bach Academy of NBG in Eastern Europe
The NBA held at irregular intervals, the Bach Academy of NBG in Eastern Europe. On this are young Eastern European musicians are made of Bach and appropriate performance practice acquainted with the music. She found with technical support from its members and financial support, among other things of the Goethe -Institut and the Standing Conference of Central German Baroque Music ( MBM ) from 1990 to 1998 seven times in Cluj- Napoca (Romania ) from 2004 until 2009, three times in Donetsk (Ukraine ) instead. As a result of the Bach academies in Romania was founded on April 5, 1998 under the auspices of the Romanian NBG Bach Society Bach Societatea with headquarters in Bucharest. The Bach academies in Donetsk will be organized in cooperation with the Bach Society of Ukraine, based in Donetsk, which is a member of the NBA.
Johann Sebastian Bach Foundation
On 20 May 2011 the NBG in Leipzig established the Johann Sebastian Bach Foundation and endowed it with a foundation of 60,000 euros. Foundation Chairman is the NBG chairman Martin Petzoldt, members of the Board of Trustees include Güttler and the longtime director of the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart Andreas Keller. The aim of the Foundation is to support the NBA in their projects, and especially the support of young musicians. From the foundation's capital cleared the Johann Sebastian Bach -Stiftung presented in July 2012 for the first prize of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in organ prize money of 10,000 euros. Other concerns of Johann Sebastian Bach Foundation are to promote and support young singers and singers and the support of the collections of the Bach house Eisenach.