According to the 2014 report on the creative industries, the share of employees in the music industry in Liechtenstein was 7.8 per cent in 2011. Music holds a particularly important place in society. With 33 per cent of the budget, it is music that the Liechtenstein Cultural Foundation traditionally promotes the most extensively, with music associations and clubs receiving generous support. The same applies to festivals from pop to jazz, music theatre, the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra or the International Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Society as well as new musical works. In its annual CD productions, the vibrant, and promoted, Liechtenstein band scene shows a remarkable diversity in the genres of pop, jazz and classical music.
By participating in the Swiss “Youth and Music” programme and the “prima la musica” youth music competition in Austria, Liechtenstein promotes musical talent and supports out-of-school music education (see 1.4.1).
An important private initiative was added in 2021. The “Pepi Frommelt Foundation” has set itself the goal of promoting and distributing the musical creations of past, present and future generations in and from Liechtenstein. Josef Frommelt (1935–2019) was a musician, musicologist, conductor, music educator and pioneer of the Music School, composer, founder of the International Master Classes (see 1.3.3) and also rapporteur for the Council of Europe’s Cultural Commission on Music Education. The Pepi Frommelt Foundation aims to support professional, semi-professional and ambitious amateur musicians with a connection to Liechtenstein in their musical development and in the distribution of their work: for example, by commissioning compositions and arrangements and by professionally recording and publishing these works. It also wants to contribute to the establishment of a “Liechtenstein Music Export Office” and a representation of the interests of Liechtenstein’s musicians.
The FONDATION SUISA is the non-profit foundation for the promotion of music of the SUISA Cooperative Society of Music Authors and Publishers. It promotes Swiss musical creation as well as projects related to musical creation in Liechtenstein. SUISA is the cooperative society of music authors and publishers in Switzerland. Founded as a cooperative in 1923, it now has a membership of around 37,000 composers, lyricists and music publishers. SUISA collects the royalties its members are entitled to for the public use of their works in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In 2020, the FONDATION SUISA supported Swiss music creation to the tune of CHF 2.4 million.
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