Mission erfüllt? Das Ende des Schweizerischen Tonkünstlervereins
Version
Published
Identifiers
10.5771/9783987402289
Date Issued
2025
Author(s)
Type
Book Chapter
Language
German
Abstract
2017 stellte das Bundesamt für Kultur seine Subventionen für den Schweizerischen Tonkünstlerverein ein, der nach 117 Jahren mit anderen Verbänden zum Berufsverband SONART fusionierte. Auf den ersten Blick scheint klar, was hierzu geführt hat: Druck der Politik und finanzielles Ausbluten. Eine Untersuchung der Vereinsakten verbunden mit Zeitzeugengesprächen zeigt, dass dies zwar wichtige Gründe waren, das Ende der Vereinsgeschichte aber vielmehr multikausal zu verstehen ist und sich schon früh ankündigte: zu teure Vereinsstrukturen; eine zunehmende inhaltliche Öffnung verband sich mit einer Konvergenz der Musizierformen, insbesondere von Komposition und Improvisation; verbunden mit der Öffnung war eine immer ausgeprägtere Kultur der Auslagerung von Tätigkeiten, wodurch die Diskurs-Hoheit preisgegeben wurde; vernachlässigt wurde der sich weiter entwickelnde Kontext – man war ein Player unter anderen geworden. Erfolgreich erfüllte Mission oder doch eine mutwillig zerstörte Musikkultur?
In 2017, the Federal Office of Culture stopped its subsidies for the Swiss Musicians’ Association, which then merged with other associations to form the SONART professional association. At first glance, the reasons for this seem clear: Political pressure and financial haemorrhaging. An examination of the Association’s documents, combined with interviews with contemporary witnesses, shows that these were indeed important reasons, though the end of the Association’s history also has to be understood in a multicausal way. It was actually heralded early on. Its structures were too expensive; and while it became increasingly open in terms of content and allowed a convergence of different forms of music-making (especially composition and improvisation), this opening-up went hand-in-hand with a culture of outsourcing activities that relinquished the sovereignty of discourse. The evolving context was neglected as the Association became just one player among others. Was its end a case of ‘mission accomplished’, or the wilful destruction of established music structures?
In 2017, the Federal Office of Culture stopped its subsidies for the Swiss Musicians’ Association, which then merged with other associations to form the SONART professional association. At first glance, the reasons for this seem clear: Political pressure and financial haemorrhaging. An examination of the Association’s documents, combined with interviews with contemporary witnesses, shows that these were indeed important reasons, though the end of the Association’s history also has to be understood in a multicausal way. It was actually heralded early on. Its structures were too expensive; and while it became increasingly open in terms of content and allowed a convergence of different forms of music-making (especially composition and improvisation), this opening-up went hand-in-hand with a culture of outsourcing activities that relinquished the sovereignty of discourse. The evolving context was neglected as the Association became just one player among others. Was its end a case of ‘mission accomplished’, or the wilful destruction of established music structures?
Publisher DOI
Journal or Serie
Musik-Diskurse nach 1970
Journal or Serie
Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern
ISSN
2700-8681
Organization
Volume
19
Publisher
Ergon
Submitter
Allenbach, Daniel
Citation apa
Gartmann, T. (2025). Mission erfüllt? Das Ende des Schweizerischen Tonkünstlervereins. In T. Gartmann, D. Lanz, R. Sudan, & G. S. Weber (Eds.), Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern (Vol. 19, pp. 435–463). Ergon. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.12379
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
open access
Name
HKB19_28_Gartmann_435–463.pdf
License
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Version
published
Size
480.92 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum (MD5)
1b3700b2c516221a1c9b9e91387cd659
