MusicaMedica Orchester Marktheidenfeld

In 1987, Dr. Georg Kaiser, former chief physician at the Marktheidenfeld Hospital and a trained musician, founded the “Musica Medica” doctors’ orchestra. Even after his death in 2016, the musicians, together with family members and friends, travel to Italy every year for a week of concerts.

In an interview, his daughter Katharina Kaiser talks about, among other things, the fascination of making music together and how the doctors’ orchestra continued after the founder’s death.

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36 Years of the Musica Medica Doctors’ Orchestra: How did your father, Dr. Georg Kaiser, come to found the ensemble?

Kaiser: My father studied music alongside medicine, discovering another passion there. At just 14, he was an organist and choir director in his Silesian homeland. The impetus for founding Musica Medica was an annual congress for German doctors in Grado, Italy. My father gave organ concerts there in the 1980s. Gradually, other musicians joined in. This led to the founding of an association in 1987.