Musikalische Neujahrsgedichte (Zürich Musiksaal, 1761)
In the 17th century music in Zürich was dominated by three collegia musica: the first was ‘zum Chorherrensaal’, followed by the ‘ab dem Musiksaal’ (from 1613) and ‘zur deutschen Schule’ (from 1679). Initially they were concerned only with sacred music, but later also performed contemporary German and Italian secular music. The three societies merged in 1812 to form the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich (AMGZ), which since 1813 has produced books on musical subjects in a series of ‘Neujahrsblättern’, the successors to a series of New Year collections of polyphonic pieces published by two of the collegia musica from 1685 and 1713 respectively.
The Musikgesellschaft ‘ab dem Musiksaal’ began to publish New Year's pieces in 1685; see 04J21, 10B20, 11H13, 26D03, G1-027 and G1-028 for similar collections
Ex libris Wolvenbosch (plate)
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