Neujahrsgeschenke ab der Chorherren (Zürich Chorherrensaal, 1779)
Mainly biographical stories with a moral and religious exemplary function that glorify Swiss national history, Swiss history of the Reformation, etc., each one preceded by a full-page engraving illustrating the content of the story, or portraying the person whose life is described.
The editions, published every New year as a speech for the pupils of the Collegium, have no specific title. Some exeptions hint in the title to its content, eg. 1819 "...zum Andenken der im Jahre 1519 begonnenen Glaubenverbesserung "
Portraits (and biographies) of:Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531)Johan Heinrich Lavater Ludwig Lavater (1527-1586)Heinrich Corrodi 1752-1793Joh. Conrad Pfenninger (1747-1793)Heinrich Schinz (1764-1822)Leonhard Usteri (1741-1789)Conrad Schmid (16th cent)Joh. Caspar Hagenbuch (1700-1763)Johan Jakob Köchlin (1721-1787)Rudolf Gwalter (1519-1586)I. Jacob Hottinger (1750-1819)Johannes von Muralt (1645-1733)Johannes Fries (1505-1565)Heinrich Escher (1713-1777)Johannes Heinrich Rahn (1749-1812)J. Jacob Steinbrychel (1729-1796)Joh. Jacob Breitinger (1701-1776)Joh. Jacobus Breitingerus (1575-1645)Joh. Caspar Haeffeli (1754-1811)Christophorus Froschoverus (Christoffel Froschauer) (ca 1490-1564) Johan Rudolf Ulrich (1728-1795)Josua Mahler (1529-1598)Salomon Schinz M.D. (1734-1784)Johann Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733)
“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.”
see 04J20, 04J21, 10B20, 26D03, G1-027 and G1-028 for similar collections
Keywords: Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich (Switzerland); 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); Moral education; Biography; History; Fine art; Institution; Reformation; Religion; Zürich (Switzerland); bibliotheek; Zwingli, U; Gessner, C; Lavater, J.C.; Lavater, L