Ensemble FAMA is composed of specialists in historical performance practice who, after years of study in centers of historical performance practice such as Basel and Amsterdam, found their common residence in Augsburg. In addition to research and dissemination of early music through organization and artistic direction of the FUGGER KONZERTE as well as the FESTIVAL ALTE MUSIK AUGSBURG, part of the common work is also concertizing and recording of still unknown musical treasures of the Renaissance and the Baroque. For complete information please visit the website www.fama-augsburg.de .

AUGSBURG CHRISTMAS

Augsburg Christmas in the 17th Century

For its 10th anniversary, the Forum Alte Musik Augsburg recorded a new CD with music of the early baroque from Augsburg and Swabia, which deals specifically with works around Christmas...

INNSBRUCK, I MUST LEAVE YOU

Music by the Court Kapellmeisters of Emperor Maximilian I - Heinrich Isaac and Ludwig Senfl

Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519), known as the "last knight" in memory of the lost Middle Ages, was nevertheless rather a ruler who brought about the "triumph of the Renaissance" in Germany...

THE AUGSBURG SONGBOOK

A Musical Manuscript of the Renaissance

The State and City Library of Augsburg holds a very special treasure: the extensive manuscript 2°. Cod. 142a is a music-historical treasure of the first rank...

Madrigals, Moresques and Canzones

Music from Augsburg's Golden Age

Festive concert to open the 2nd Early Music Festival Augsburg "Maximilian and the triumph of the Renaissance in Augsburg"...

MUSICA, CUR SILES?

Renaissance music from the surroundings of Emperor Maximilian I

"Musica, cur siles?" - Music, why are you silent? is a line of text in the funeral motet "Quis dabit oculis nostris fontem lachrymarum", which Ludwig Senfl, leader of the court orchestra of Maximilian I, composed on the death of the emperor in 1519...