The Leipziger Consort was a well-known
chamber music
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ensemble from the
DDR
History
The
Ensemble was founded in 1982. Members were on the one hand
Axel Schmidt (
oboe
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The most common type of oboe, the soprano oboe pitched in C, ...
),
Matthias Sannemüller
Matthias Sannemüller (born 2 September 1951) is a German violist.
Life
Born in Leipzig, Sannemüller was born in 1951 as son of the concertmaster Horst Sannemüller and the opera singer Philine Fischer. In his youth he learned piano and viol ...
(
viola
The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...
) and
Dieter Zahn (
double-bass
The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass). It has ...
). They were solo musicians in the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (today:
MDR-Sinfonieorchester) and members of the
Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler. In addition,
Roland Zimmer (
guitar
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) and later
Thomas Blumenthal (guitar) were its members.
They dedicated themselves to
Baroque music
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and
New music. In particular they premiered works by
Reiner Bredemeyer,
Georg Katzer,
Friedrich Schenker,
Günter Neubert,
Karl Ottomar Treibmann,
Manfred Schubert und
Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller (; born 13 September 1989) is a German professional Association football, footballer who plays for club FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder or a second striker. Widely regarded as one o ...
. The Leipzig Consort gave guest concerts in many European countries; numerous radio productions were documented.
The group disbanded in the early 1990s. In 1992 Sannemüller and Blumenthal founded the
Ensemble Sortisatio.
Literature
* Manfred Vetter: ''Kammermusik in der DDR.''
''Kammermusik in der DDR.''
on WorldCat Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1996, , .
References
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Chamber music groups
East German musical groups
Musical groups established in 1982
Musical groups disestablished in the 1990s
German classical music groups