Dresden Music Festival

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Open-air concert Dresden sings & makes music in 2010 on / in front of the stairs to the Brühl Terrace , participants: Neue Elbland Philharmonie and several choirs

The Dresden Music Festival has been held annually in Dresden between mid-May and early June since 1978 .

history

The Dresden Music Festival, which celebrated its 40th year in 2017, is one of the largest and most renowned classical music festivals in Europe. Their historical forerunners lie in the Muse and Zwinger Festival of the Saxon Electors. But they owe their actual existence to a resolution of the Central Committee of the SED and the Council of Ministers of the GDR in 1976 with the following ruling: "Beginning in 1978, Dresden Music Festival will take place in Dresden as an annual international music festival!" The newly founded festival quickly became a great success. Over 100,000 guests attended 140 events during the first 16-day festival. In the following years, world stars such as Marilyn Horne , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado and the orchestra of La Scala in Milan or Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic traveled to the Elbe.

In the more than 40 festival years, the number and variety of events was great - a trademark of the festival that still shapes the program today. In addition to orchestral and chamber music and solo concerts, old and new music, world music, jazz and dance are also offered. The tradition of the annually changing festival motto, which has existed since it was founded, is continued to this day. A record was set in 2013 with 150,000 visitors. In 2017, 56,000 guests attended 67 events at 24 venues. Ticket sales were 1.54 million euros and the occupancy rate was 91 percent.

Since the 2017/18 season, top-class concerts have also been taking place outside the regular festival time in the new concert hall in the Kulturpalast, with a series of "palace concerts". In addition, with the Dresden Festival Orchestra , which was founded in 2012, the music festival has its own orchestra, which specializes in historically informed music-making and is on the road as an ambassador for the festival in Germany's concert halls. In 2018, the Dresden Music Festival and its artistic director Jan Vogler were awarded the Taurus European Culture Prize.

Directors

The cellist Jan Vogler has been the artistic director of the Dresden Music Festival since the 2009 season , which has given the festival new impetus. His predecessors were Hartmut Haenchen (2002–2008), Torsten Mosgraber (interim / 2000 to 2002), Michael Hampe (1993 to 2000), Mattis Dänhardt (1991–1993) and from 1977 to 1991 Winfried Höntsch . From 1994 to 2012, Kim Ry Andersen from the Danish Ministry of Culture and the Royal Theater in Copenhagen was Deputy Artistic Director and Administrative Director . The same office was held from 2012 to 2015 by the cultural manager and business lawyer Dr. Markus Lutz. Business economist Christian Eckhardt has held this position since March 1, 2016.

The themes of the music festival since its inception

  • 2020 inspiration nature
  • 2019 visions
  • 2018 mirror
  • 2017 light
  • 2016 time
  • 2015 fire ice
  • 2014 The Roaring 20s
  • 2013 Empire
  • 2012 heart of Europe
  • 2011 Five elements
  • 2010 Russiaia
  • 2009 New World
  • 2008 Utopia
  • 2007 landscapes
  • 2006 Faith - Understanding, Tolerance, Criticism
  • 2005 Enjoyment of the foreign
  • 2004 something fabulous
  • 2003 Wagner & Wolf
  • 2002 Longing and Farewell
  • 2001 departure
  • 2000 Baroque & Jazz
  • 1999 España
  • 1998 The power of music
  • 1997 Italian in Florence on the Elbe
  • 1996 Enlightenment - Dream of Reason
  • 1995 apocalypse
  • 1994 Saxony's splendor - the Augustan age
  • 1993 dance podium
  • 1992 Opera in Dresden - Art for Europe
  • 1991 Mozart's legacy in Dresden
  • 1990 Russian Classic - Soviet Modern
  • 1989 Four decades of socialist music culture
  • 1988 Verdi and Wagner in Dresden
  • 1987 The Italian Opera in Dresden
  • 1986 Carl Maria von Weber and the idea of ​​the national opera
  • 1985 Semperoper - tradition and present
  • 1984 encounters with dance
  • 1983 Dresden opera traditions
  • 1982 musical theater for children
  • 1981 Mozart as a music dramatist
  • 1980 dance theater today
  • 1979 20th century opera
  • 1978 chamber opera

Festival Prize

Since 2004, the Glashütte Original MusikFestspielPreis, endowed with 25,000 euros, has been awarded together with the watch manufacturer Glashütte Original . It honors personalities from the music world who have made an outstanding contribution to promoting young musicians or teaching classical music. From 2004 to 2009 the prize was still awarded under the name SAECULUM.

Award winners

Web links

Commons : Dresden Music Festival  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralf Hübner: The prescribed music festival . In: Saxon newspaper . May 19, 2018 ( online [accessed May 22, 2018]).
  2. ^ History of the Dresden Music Festival on musikfestspiele.com, accessed on April 25, 2013
  3. ↑ Bernd Klempnow: It can be a little more . In: Saxon newspaper . June 11, 2018 ( online [accessed June 11, 2018]).
  4. ^ "Great Danish" master of numbers . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 30, 2012 ( online [accessed April 25, 2013]).