Abstract
In 1859, the organizers of a Tonkunstler-Versammlung in Leipzig distributed 3,000 tickets for a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, to be conducted by Franz Liszt in the Thomaskirche. The organizers of the Tonkunstler-Versammlung sought to reconcile two deep rifts in German musical culture: the confessional gap (to be bridged with a Catholic conductor leading a Catholic Mass in a Protestant church and city), and the divide between autonomists and New Germans, in offering a classic work from the musical canon that had been taking shape over the past decades. Through this event, Liszt and Franz Brendel sought to unite German musicians on a national level. The Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (ADMV), formed at the Tonkunstler-Versammlung, was in part a response to the War of the Romantics that had created a rift in German musical life.Keywords: Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (ADMV); Catholic Mass; Franz Brendel; Franz Liszt; German musical life; Protestant church
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