The ''Hamburger Ratsmusik'' was the name, in German, for the Hamburg city government musical establishment of

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during the baroque period. ''Ratsmusik'' was a generic term to distinguish from ''Hausmusik,'' domestic music making, during the

Hanseatic The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label=German language, Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a Middle Ages, medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central Europe, Central and Norther ...

period. It is also the name of a modern ensemble for early music
Hamburger Ratsmusik
led by Simone Eckert.

Directors

*1608-1610 and 1613-1615

William Brade William Brade (1560 – 26 February 1630) was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first Englishman to write a canzona, an Italian form ...

*1616- Christian Hildebrand *1621-

Johann Schop Johann Schop (ca. 1590 – 1644) was a German violinist and composer, much admired as a musician and a technician, who was a virtuoso and whose compositions for the violin set impressive technical demands for that area at that time. In 1756 ...

, with a salary of 800 marks. *1665- Samuel Peter Sidon *1667- Dietrich Becker *1678-

Nicolaus Adam Strungk Nicolaus Adam Strungk (christened 15 November 1640 in Braunschweig – 23 September 1700 in Dresden) was a German composer and violinist. Life Nicolaus Adam was the son of the organist Delphin Strungk. He studied organ under his father, then a ...

Nicolaus Adam Strungk, 1640-1700: sein Leben und seine Werke, mit beiträgen 1915 Page 48 *1682-

Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns or Brauns (11 February 1637 in Lollfuß – 13 March 1718 in Hamburg) was a German composer and music director in Hamburg. Bruhns was born in Lollfuß, Schleswig. In 1682 he succeeded Nicolaus Adam Strungk in charge ...

*1718- Hieronymus Oldenburg *1721- Georg Philipp Telemann *1768-

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and sec ...

*1789- Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwenke, the last Musikdirector of the five churches.

References

{{reflist German music history History of Hamburg