Music Legacy Thuringia - Resounding Residences, Cities and Villages between Reformation and Enlightenment

 

Musikerbe Thüringen, a project supported by the Free State of Thuringia, has as its goal the identification, publication, and dissemination of significant Thuringian musical monuments. It focuses on the inheritance of vocal and instrumental music from the period after 1500 until about 1800.

 

Many musical documents contained in historic castle and church libraries and in archives offer insights into the unique Thuringian high culture of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. These documents attest to the active and comprehensive cultivation of music as well as to the open reception of international influences and speak for a high general level of performance.

On the basis of exemplarily selected compositions, most of them unpublished, the Musikerbe Thüringen would like to make available in audio form the music of the court ensembles at the magnificent residences, in the town choral societies, and among extraordinarily ambitious village lay musicians. At the same time already known works such as those by Johann Sebastian Bach can be placed in an epochal context and situated within genre history.

The CD series Musikerbe Thüringen on cpo and editions of the music form a portrait of a historical music landscape that is unique in its kind and internationally significant.

 

Musikerbe Thüringen is supported by the "Thüringer Ministerium für Bildung, Wis- senschaft und Kultur". Closer forms of cooperation exist with the Thuringian State Music Archive at The LISZT School of Musik Weimar.