The Hamburger Ratsmusik was the name, in German, for the Hamburg city government musical establishment of Hamburg during the baroque period. Ratsmusik was a generic term to distinguish from Hausmusik, domestic music making, during the Hanseatic 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 1616- Christian Hildebrand 1621- Johann Schop, with a salary of 800 marks. 1665- Samuel Peter Sidon 1667- Dietrich Becker 1678- Nicolaus Adam StrungkNicolaus Adam Strungk, 1640-1700: sein Leben und seine Werke, mit beiträgen 1915 Page 48 1682- Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns 1718- Hieronymus Oldenburg 1721- Georg Philipp Telemann 1768- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1789- Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwenke, the last Musikdirector of the five churches.
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