pro musica nova

Pro musica nova was the name of a festival for New Music of the ARD broadcaster Radio Bremen, which was founded in 1958 by Hans Otte, the then head of department Music.

Since 1960 was conducted per musica nova in alternate years with its counterpart pro musica antiqua of Radio Bremen. The two biennials owe their names to the Brussels Pro Musica Antiqua ensemble of conductors Safford Cape, which experimented since the 1930s with historical performance practice and this, for example, for the archive documented production of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft.

The aim of this festival was to bring the audience virtually no longer known or not yet existent works of ancient and contemporary music. Hans Otte was often. Against violent resistance of the broadcasting bodies, hundreds of compositions at that time completely unknown composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Terry Riley, Lamonte Young, Conlon Nancarrow, and Hans -Joachim Hesp in order Even later became known specialist in early music as Nikolaus Harnoncourt received a work forum, as well as major artists such as Herbert Henck, David Tudor and Herbert Tachezi.

The artistic director of Radio Bremen presented both a biennial in 2001. Its founder Otte who had renounced his program policy as much as possible and aware of their own taste preferences to enable and demonstrate widest development within the art had, the festival pro musica antiqua and pro musica nova to 1984 passed almost a quarter of a century. Important artists of different " fractions " estimate Ottes effect, universally regarded as " epoch-making " one.

• Music Festival ( Germany )
• Radio Bremen
• Institution ( New Music )