Bösendorfer Hall

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Concert scene in the Bösendorfer Hall in Palais Liechtenstein. The painting hung in the Bösendorfer factory in Vienna-Wieden.

The Bösendorfer Hall was a concert hall in Vienna that existed in the Palais Liechtenstein in Herrengasse from 1872 to 1913 . In 1983 a new Bösendorfer hall was opened in the Bösendorfer factory in Graf-Starhemberg-Gasse in the Wieden district . After this factory was shut down, the name was transferred to a hall in the Mozarthaus Vienna in 2010 . There are also halls of the same name in Salzburg and Eggenfelden .

Bösendorfer halls in Vienna

The Liechtenstein Palace (around 1905)

Liechtenstein Palace

Ludwig Bösendorfer opened the concert hall in the palace in 1872 by redesigning the Princely Liechtenstein Riding School and subsequently took over its management. The rather unadorned hall offered 588 people and was highly valued for its excellent acoustics. In its time it was considered one of the most important concert halls in Vienna.

The opening concert on November 19, 1872 was played by Hans von Bülow . Ignaz Paderewski was a frequent guest in the Bösendorfer Hall, and Eugen d'Albert made his Vienna debut here in 1886. Other famous artists performing here were u. a. Wilhelm Backhaus , Ferruccio Busoni , Ernst von Dohnányi , Julius Epstein , Wilhelm Kienzl , Fritz Kreisler , Theodor Leschetizky , Franz Liszt , Gustav Mahler , Sophie Menter , Felix Mottl , Max Reger , Anton Rubinstein , Pablo de Sarasate , Emil von Sauer , Arthur Schnabel , Richard Strauss , Richard Wagner , Felix von Weingartner and Hugo Wolf . More than 4,500 concerts were given in this concert hall until it was closed after a concert by the Rosé Quartet on May 2, 1913.

Memorial plaque on the Herrengasse skyscraper in Vienna

In his memoir Die Welt von Gestern (Die Welt von Gestern), Stefan Zweig describes the last concert and the music enthusiasts' emotional farewell to “their” hall: “When the last bars of Beethoven faded away, more wonderfully played by the Rosé Quartet than ever before, no one left his seat. We made noises and applauded, some women sobbed with excitement, nobody wanted to admit that it was a farewell. The lights in the hall were turned out to chase us away. None of the four or five hundred fanatics left their place. "

The palace was subsequently demolished in order to be able to use the building site commercially. The area remained undeveloped for almost two decades, and the Herrengasse skyscraper was not built on it until 1931 . A plaque on the building commemorates the former location of the Bösendorfer Hall.

Bösendorfer factory in Vienna-Wieden

In November 1983, a new Bösendorfer hall with 150 seats was inaugurated in the factory building on Wiener Wieden. Concerts and international master classes were held here. In connection with the planned abandonment of the location in Wieden, a replacement for this Bösendorfer hall was sought from 2009, which was used until March 2010.

Bösendorfer grand piano in the Bösendorfer Hall in the Mozarthaus Vienna

Mozarthaus Vienna

The successor was found in October 2010 through a cooperation with the Mozarthaus Vienna . The "Bösendorfer Hall in Mozarthaus Vienna" is located on the second basement floor in a former cellar with a historic vault. It is not only suitable for concerts, but thanks to the technical equipment also for CD recordings, presentations and lectures. It can also be rented for festive events.

Halls of the same name in other places

Inscription in the New Mozarteum, Salzburg

A small concert hall with 80 seats in the New Mozarteum in Salzburg bears the name Bösendorfersaal .

The city of Eggenfelden has set up various buildings on the grounds of Hofmark Gern for cultural purposes. This includes the BösendorferSaal in the former coach house with space for around 200 concert-goers, which is also used by the city's music school.

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .
  • Edgard Haider: Lost Vienna - noble palaces of days gone by. Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-205-07220-0 .
  • Christina Meglitsch: Vienna's forgotten concert halls. The myth of the Bösendorfer, Ehrbar and Streicher halls . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-631-53014-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bösendorfer-Saal austria-forum.org
  2. ↑ a b company history boesendorfer.com
  3. ↑ Joachim Reiber : How Bösendorfer got into the Musikverein , in: Musikfreunde , monthly magazine of the Wiener Musikverein , December 2014 edition.
  4. ↑ Bösendorfer announces merger of production and sales. Press release of L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH, March 25, 2009.
  5. ↑ a b New start for the Bösendorfer Saal mein district.at, October 18, 2010.
  6. ↑ Bösendorfer Hall mozarthausvienna.at
  7. ↑ Bösendorfersaal and Hörsal uni-mozarteum.at
  8. ↑ Bösendorfersaal in the lock economy Gern (music school) eggenfelden.de