Abstract

The Mannheim School achieved variety of musical characteristics, balance between movements, and satisfaction of the function of individual movement within the four movements structure taking a minuet as the third movement. In terms of detailed formal and constitutive structure, they maintain dramatic tension through external and internal contrast, horizontal and vertical combination of musical sections with strong identity. In addition, such a dramatic tension is based on certain types of development and formal structure. The Mannheim Kapelle was mentioned in the music-history through the sponsorship of Carl Philipp and Carl Theodor. The Mannheim Kapelle with the musical patronage of Carl Theodor became much larger in the quality and size under his reign. He supported to the musicians financially and spiritually. The Court Music in the 18th century was performed at the Court events or the Carnival. The Court events involved church and secular ones. For the Church events, there were many Church services for the birthday and the day for the name of the king or the lord. There were many famous Mannheim musicians, most of whom proved their outstanding technique at the Concert Spirituel. These events were different due to the favor of lord and political instance, the Lord of the Mannheim Court realized the value of culture and art very well, so the musical culture was promoted in Mannheim at his days. On the contrary, cultural art is not developed when the political situation is out of joint and domestic economy ist unstable. And its uniform musical form caused that Mannheim School was forgotten.

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