Hessen

Capital of Hessen. In spite of old denominations - Roman Aquae Mattiacae, medieval Visibada - the music history of the town seems to have started around 1800  -  Joachim Raff was piano teacher 1856-77, Hugo Riemann 1890-95 worked at the Fuchs'sches Konservatorium; Reger studied there 1890-92 and worked as teacher 1895-96.

built 1894 - Mahler, Strauss, Pfitzner, Korngold a.o. conducted here - HW Henze 1950-53

built 1907 (Kurhaus), 1825 (colonnade)

Piano makers, family concern, established in 1888 in Mainz, since 1945 in Wiesbaden - collection of historical keyboard instruments

last house of Franz Abt 1882-†1885

Brahms completed here in 1883 his Third Symphony

House of Joachim Raff between 1863 and 1871.  Later house, until 1877: Stiftstraße 10.

house of Rudolf von Beckerath, friend and host of Brahms 

headquarters of publishing firm B&H since 1947 -  --> www.breitkopf.com/history

grave of Franz Abt and that of Hermine Spies, singer, loved by Brahms (and she felt a certain Johannespassion…) - Abt's former gravestone at Platter Straße 11b.

Wagner Febr.-Oct. 1862, working at Meistersinger - love affairs, Cosima enters the scene

Heckel woodwind factory since 1831 (esp. bassoons, heckelphon) - private collection - visit by Wagner

Mozart 13-14.IX.1763 - building fully changed

Mozart 14-15.IX.1763 - building from 1628, for the greater part preserved 

Brentano family: Bettine (cf. Beethoven), Clemens (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) 

medieval building - 'Siegfrieds Mechanisches Musikkabinett': fine collection of mechanical musical instruments since 1969

house with vineyard of family von Beckerath until 1919 - many visits by Brahms, 1883-88 and 1896

Grave and other relics of Hildegard von Bingen. The nuns of Rupertsberg had settled in Eibingen Abbey in 1632, taking with them Hildegard's mortal remains.

Old plainchant tradition following the 'Germanic' Mainzer Cantual  and stubbornly continued after introduction of the Gregorian Editio Vaticana. From 1857 supported by the English baronet Sir John Sutton, who had the old cantual printed. Still in use. (Click on example: Kiedrich print compared with Gregorian)  -  In former times Kiedrich was an important centre of instrument making too.

Institute for the preservation of the choristers' school and the still living 'Germanic' plainchant tradition and -notation. Former museum closed?

Organ from 1493, 2 manuals, 21 stops (oldest extant in Germany) + positive c. 1700, 7 stops  -  outside Choral monument

six times Giacomo Meyerbeer stayed here 1832-63, composition of Dinorah 1858

organ by J.Chr. Köhler 1753, 1 manual, 16 stops - well preserved

former Villa Nassovia - Mendelssohn stayed here in 1844 and '45, composition of Violin Concerto - now restaurant

Est. In 1993. Lessons and masterclasses by prominent performers on string instruments. Modern concert hall 'Casals Forum'.

Jules Massenet visited Wetzlar in 1885 and saw the two houses listed here; he read Goethe again and composed Werther (finished in 1887).

House of Charlotte Buff (= Lotte from Werther) - Goethe fell in love with her during his stay in Wetzlar; unfortunately she was already engaged.

House of Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem; he shot himself in 1772 and gave rise to Goethe's Werther novel.

organ by J. Wilhelm Schöler 1757, 2 manuals, 23 stops - well preserved

medieval castle - museum of bells from 12^th-20^th century

Music fostered by landgrave Moritz der Gelehrte: John Dowland 1594-95 and Heinrich Schütz 1599-1615 (incl. four years of study in Italy on the landgrave's expense).  Erection of the Ottoneum.
Three famous organs by Scherer (1610-14); on the occasion of their renovation in 1722, Bach visited Kassel  as organ examiner. The organs have been lost.
Other musicians working here: Eberlin, Fiorillo, Reichardt, Spohr and Mahler.
After the last war drastic renovation of the town; all composers‘  houses lost.

Built in 1605, oldest still existant theatre building in Germany - since 1884 natural history museum

built 1959 - Ernst-Krenek-Treppe to Ottoneum (Krenek worked 1925-26 in Kassel)

Bach visited this church in 1722 as organ examiner; church interior destroyed in war - sacred music concerts

monument for Louis Spohr (F. Hartzer 1883); he worked 1822-57 as Hofkapellmeister

museum of Louis Spohr and the history of violin playing - Spohr archive, also Paganini, Joachim, Mahler material (present situation unclear)

grave of Louis Spohr (†1859)

publishing-firm from 1923 - encyclopedia MGG a.o. --> www.baerenreiter.com

library with a.o. Gabrieli, Schütz MSS and Spohr letters

organ cases Adam Öhninger 1713 and Joh. Hoffmann 1720 (chororgel)

organ by Anon. 1648, 4 stops

organ by  J.M. Oestreich 1791, 2 manuals, 23 stops - very wide front

collection of c 2000 instruments, incl. rare instruments and many hurdy-gurdies and bagpipes

built 1907, art déco architecture; 700 seats -  Gian-Carlo Menotti 1978/79 and 1981 première La Loca

organ by Georg Wagner 1614, orig. Spiegelprinzipal and case

Since the middle ages a free town of citizens, fairs (Buchmesse!) and coronations; on the occasion of the latter Lassus (1562), Hassler (1612 - he died during the festivities) and Salieri and Mozart (1790) appeared; Mozart had already stayed here in August 1763. In the former Barfüsserkirche , J. Andreas Herbst (1623-36, 1644-†1666) and Telemann (1712-21) worked. Mendelssohn married in Frankfurt with Cécile Jeanrenaud (1837)  -  Annual  Musikmesse (music fair) in October.

grave of Agostino Steffani, †1728 - coronation ceremonies; in 1790 sounded Beethoven's cantata WoO 88

also musical history of Frankfurt, a.o. window-pane from inn of the Mozarts in 1763, engraved by Leopold

formerly coronation banquets - Hindemith had a chamber music festival held here in 1923

Built in the 1870s as opera, since 1981 concert hall. - Mozart statue in the façade.

Built in 1963

very extensive collection --> www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/musik

RISM are documenting all manuscript or printed music sources and their locations

Joachim Raff lived here 1877-†1882  -  at nr. 9 Hindemith's parents lived (destroyed)

Clara Schumann lived here 1878-†1896

music academy, 1938 branched off from Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium  - concert hall  -  Hindemith-Institut

est. 1878;  Raff, Clara S., Sekles were teachers - first jazz class anywhere (1928) -  replaced and newly built, now only preparatory and teacher's education

Making of hurdy-gurdies; exhibition.

graves of Ferdinand Ries †1838, Joachim Raff †1882, Bernhard Sekles †1934, Theodor Adorno †1969

archive on women composers - MSs, sheetmusic, recordings, literature

remainder of town fortification - Hindemith 1923-27 - comp. Cardillac and Marienleben - from 2011 open as a museum

collection of ethnic instruments

museum and archive of movies and film history - film-shows with live music on Wurlitzer organ ♫

Paul Hindemith °1895 (house destroyed) - Hanau town hall chimes play Hindemith melodies

publishing firm Joh. André, est. 1774, now music shop - rich archive

former synagoge of jewish community to which Jac. Offenbach's father belonged; now musical theatre and concert hall

Archive of folk music - The musician Ludwig Erk (1807-83) was a folk song collector and lived here during his youth

organ by Adam Knauth 1624, 6 stops - 1709 removed from Darmstadt court chapel, 1831 hither

museum devoted to refugees/instrument makers from Kraslice (CZ) who established new work-shops here

woodwind makers since 1897 in Graslitz (= Kraslice, CZ) - a.o. fine bassoons

woodwind makers since 1946

Former residence of the landgraves, later grand dukes of Hessen-Darmstadt. Wolfgang Carl Briegel (1671-†1712), Christoph Graupner (1709-†1760) and Abbé Vogler. Like in Kassel and Frankfurt heavy war damages.

library ULB, extensive music collection - concerts in the Kaisersaal  - nice carillon

former Mollertheater (1819) , now concert hall

collection of instruments

monument of Georg 'Abbé' Vogler, who worked in Darmstadt 1809-16; his pupils include Weber, Danzi, Meyerbeer

built 1972

grave of Friedrich von Flotow, †1883, a pompous construction by J. König and J. Linnemann 1884

estate Heiligenkreuzberg, where Friedrich von Flotow lived - plaque at the gate, monument in the garden

Europe's largest public research archive on Jazz, resting on Behrendt collection

former Schmitt'sche Akademie für Tonkunst , from 1851 - new building

famous information centre of music after 1945 with archive  -  Intern. Ferienkurse für neue Musik

Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung  --> www.neue-musik.org

first Ferienkurse 1946-49 (from 1949 in IMD) - formation of so called Darmstädter Schule