![]() ![]() The activities of the ‘Shottische’ Collegium Musicum received a significant boost in 1723 when it began a close collaboration with Gottfried Zimmermann, proprietor and operator of the city’s largest and most prominent coffeehouse. ![]() After Hoffmann’s premature death in 1715, his Collegium was briefly led by Johann Gottfried Vogler, who handed it over around 1718 to Georg Balthasar Schott. A Leipzig chronicler reported in 1716 that Hoffman’s Collegium had numbered between fifty and sixty members, performed twice weekly, and produced many virtuosos who later gained important positions as cantors, organists and court musicians. In 1701, the young and energetic law student and organist Georg Philipp Telemann, founded a new Collegium that, he wrote, “often assembled up to 40 students.” He was succeeded by Melchior Hoffman, who directed the organization for ten years beginning in 1705. Throughout the seventeenth century, musically active university students had formed societies that played an increasingly important role in Leipzig’s public musical life, as they were often led by the city’s most prominent professionals. March 1729 saw Bach assume the directorship of Leipzig’s most prestigious Collegium Musicum, a decision that considerably broadened the scope of his overall musical activities. ![]()
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