The Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg is a German early music ensemble founded in 1977 and specializing in

medieval music Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and followed by the Renaissance ...

. The ensemble is regarded as "renowned" in Germany. The founding members are Hans Ganser (voice,

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, percussion), Rainer Herpichböhm (voice,

lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...

, gothic

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

), Heinz Schwamm (voice,

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

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). In 1981 they were joined by the recorder and

shawm The shawm () is a Bore_(wind_instruments)#Conical_bore, conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day. It achieved its peak of popularity during the medieval and Renaissance periods, after ...

player and singer Sabine Lutzenberger. Hans Ganser is also a noted musicologist. For example, Ganser was with Hans-Dieter Munck the first to fit one of

Wolkenstein Wolkenstein is a town in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Ore Mountains, on the river Zschopau, 22 km southeast of Chemnitz. The town is situated on a rocky spur near the confluence of Zschopau and ...

's song texts to a tune by

Binchois Gilles de Bins dit Binchois (also Binchoys; – 20 September 1460) was a Franco-Flemish composer of early Renaissance music. A central figure of the Burgundian School, Binchois and his colleague Guillaume Du Fay were deeply influenced by the ' ...

. Ganser and Herpichböhm are also the editors of an edition of Wolkenstein's songs (1978). The ensemble's musicological work has often formed the framework for practical research into medieval and monastic music.''Analecta Praemonstratensia'' Volumes 55 to 56 Tongerloo Abbey, Belgium (Premonstratensian Abbey) 1979 Page 152 "Wertnormen als Grundkomponenten unserer geschichtlichen Existenz». Die musikalische Umrahmung lag bei dem «Ensemble für frühe Musik» (Augsburg) unter leitung von Hans Ganser, das Werke klösterlicher Musik aus dem 12. und 13."

Discography

The ensemble has been closely associated since its beginning with

Christophorus Records Christophorus Records is a German classical music label based originally in Freiburg im Breisgau specializing in Catholic church and early music. History The history of the Herder family in publishing in Freiburg goes back to Bartholomä Herder ...

: * Weihnachten im Mittelalter - Christmas in the Middle Ages CHR 77271, Christophorus Entrée CHE 01162, 2004 * Trobadors, Trouvères, Minnesänger - Songs and dances of the Middle Ages CHE 0148-2 * Camino de Santiago - Music on the Pilgrimage. ''Wer daz elend bauen will'' and other works CHR 74530 *

Oswald von Wolkenstein Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 or 1377 in Pfalzen – August 2, 1445, in Meran) was a poet, composer and diplomat. In his diplomatic capacity, he traveled through much of Europe to as far as Georgia (as recounted in "Durch Barbarei, Arabia"). He wa ...

: A selection of 24 songs CHR 74540 *

Hildegard von Bingen Hildegard of Bingen (german: Hildegard von Bingen; la, Hildegardis Bingensis; 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher ...

und ihre Zeit - and her time CHR 74584, 1990 *

Neidhart von Reuental Neidhart (Middle High German ) (later often called Neidhart von Reuental) was one of the most famous . With around 1500 documented strophes of his songs surviving, Neidhart has the largest corpus of surviving lyrics of any , suggesting the great ...

- 14 songs CHR 77327 * Amours et Désirs - songs of the Trouvères CHR 77117 * Planctus Mariae - Late medieval music for Holy Week CHR 77147, 1994 *

Mönch von Salzburg The Monk of Salzburg (german: Mönch von Salzburg) was a German composer of the late 14th century. He worked at the court of the Salzburg archbishop Pilgrim von Puchheim (1365–96); more than 100 ''Liederhandschriften'' (manuscripts) in Early New ...

- secular songs CHR 77176 * The Ancient miracles - songs and instrumental music of the Middle Ages CHR 77178, 1995 * Mysterium Mariae - Marian songs of the late Middle Ages CHR 77188, 1998 * Hildegard von Bingen - Celestial Stairs CHR 77205, 1997 * Melancolia - German love songs from the Autumn of the Middle Ages CHR 77225 *

Minnesang (; "love song") was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany and Austria that flourished in the Middle High German period. This period of medieval German literature began in the 12th century and continued into the 14th. People who wr ...

, Die Blütezeit - The blooming CHR 77242 * Minnesang II, Die Spätzeit - The late period CHR 77003 * Auf Jakobs Wegen - Pilgerfahrt nach Santiago im Mittelalter. ''Ad te levavi'' and other works. CHR 77264 * Le manuscrit perdu de Strasbourg - ''Tuba gallicalis'' and other works. Solstice Records 146 * Schlager um 1500 - ''Intrada'' Melchior Franck and other pieces. 1989. Reissued as ''Renaissance Pop Songs'' Christophorus Entrée CHE 0310-2 2007 * Et in terra pax CHR 77139, 1993 Compilation: * Zeit der Dämmerung - The Dawn of the Middle Ages (Catalogue CD, various artists) CHR 77003

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