Hamburger Ratsmusik

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 Strungk
 * 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.