Van Felix Meritis naar het Concertgebouw. Continuïteit en vernieuwing in de Amsterdamse concertpraktijk, 1884-1891

Music historians of the nineteenth century have stressed the importance of the 1880s as a turning point in the development of concert culture in Amsterdam. Indeed, the closing-down of the important concert hall Felix Meritis in 1888 and the founding of the new Concertgebouw in the same year changed concert life in Amsterdam drastically. Concerts of high quality became more accessible to a larger public, concert programming changed and the Concertgebouw Orchestra brought about a far-reaching professionalization of orchestral culture. In this article Mascha van Nieuwkerk uses as yet unexplored sources to analyse how exactly these changes manifested themselves Through the analyses of membership lists, concert programmes and reviews it will be argued that this transition period shows more continuity than is traditionally presumed.

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Skript 33.4, januari 2012