Harzburg Music Days
The Harzburger Music Days have been in 1970 , the annual music festival of Bad Harzburg in Lower Saxony .
history
The Harzburger Musiktage was founded in 1970 by Luz Leskowitz . In 1988 the concert series was recognized as an international festival .
Since then, six to eight concerts have been offered every June . In the early years, the concerts were given in the old casino, today's spa center. Today the festival has changing concert venues, such as the Luther Church (Bad Harzburg) , the Kaiserpfalz Goslar , the knight's hall in Bündheim Castle , the Werner von Siemens Gymnasium (Bad Harzburg) , the Wolf coffee house (Bad Harzburg), the Harzers Volksbank Bad Harzburg, the Kurhaus Bad Harzburg or the new Sonnenresort Ettershaus.
In the second and third decade of the Harzburger Musiktage, the concert series often had a motto such as B. 1988 - Denmark as a guest . Other countries were France and Austria as well as the music metropolises Dresden , Berlin and Hamburg .
Two ensembles were also founded during the Harzburg Music Days . In 1979 the Salzburg soloists gave their founding concert in the Kaiserpfalz Goslar and in 1989 the Ensemble Wien-Berlin had its first public concert in Bad Harzburg.
Until 2005, the artistic director of the Harzburger Musiktage was the violinist Luz Leskowitz.
In 2019 the International Festival will celebrate a big anniversary with the 50th Harzburg Music Days. This birthday was not only celebrated with the usual traditional festival week. To mark the beginning of the anniversary, there was a concert on March 15 in the Kurhaus Bad Harzburg with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under the direction of Andrew Manze and Francesco Piemontesi at the piano. After the festival week in June, there was the big anniversary finale on November 16, with two concerts, in Venice with the Quartetto di Venezia and Simone Kermes & Friends.
The Harzburger Musiktage is the third oldest classical music festival in Lower Saxony .
Artist (selection)
World-famous soloists , personalities, ensembles and orchestras have been giving their fine art to the fore at the Harzburger Musiktage since 1970, as have young up-and-coming artists and music award winners . In recent years, many national and regional winners of the “ Jugend musiziert ” competition have been invited to the Harzburg Music Days.
Soloists and personalities
Peter Schreier , Ulrich von Wrochem , Paul Roczek, Julius Berger , Matthias Feile, Hermann Prey , Mette Hanskov, Wolfgang Schulz , Karl Leister , Ruth Konhäuser, Hans-Jörg Schellenberger , Günter Högner, Anneliese Rothenberger , Milan Turković , Jörg Demus , Norman Shetler , René Kollo , Lory Wallfisch, Peter Rösel , Karl Ridderbusch , Paul Badura-Skoda , Ingrid Heabler, Detlef Kraus , Jeremy Menuhin, Elly Ameling , Igor Oistrach , Vladimir Mendelssohn, Nicolai Gedda , Heidi Litschauer, David Geringas , Ab Koster, Ludwig Streicher , Hermann Baumann , Bernard Le Pogam, Edward Tarr , Ingeborg Hallstein , Håkan Hardenberger , Matthias Höfs , Jutta Zoff , Edith Wiens , Giselle Herbert, Theo Adam , Claudia Schneider, András Csáki, Katja Riemann (recitation) and Sebastian Knauer (piano),
Simone Kermes and the ensemble “La Magnifica Comunitá”, Sebastian Knauer and Hannelore Elsner , Meike Leluschko and Jenny Meyer (harp), Francesco Piemontesi , Martina Gedeck (scenic recitation) and Sebastian Knauer (piano).
Ensembles and orchestras
NDR Radiophilharmonie , Braunschweig State Orchestra , Göttingen Symphony Orchestra , Classical Philharmonic Bonn , Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Stuttgart, Badisches Kammerorchester, Camerata Salzburg , Voces Quartet , Mandelring Quartet , Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg , Klenke Quartet , Blue Chamber Quartet ( Vienna ), duoApeiron , Die Singphoniker , Vision String Quartet - Classic & Jazz, Pindakaas Saxophone Quartet , Flute Quartet Flautando Köln , Gershwin Quartet, Spanish Brass-Metàl.lics, Lutherkantorei Bad Harzburg , St. Nikolai Women's Choir, Semicircle Choir, Werner-von-Siemens Choir High school .
Sponsorship
On July 1, 1972, the Society for the Promotion of the Harzburg Music Days was founded.
The society was able to secure the financing of the Harzburg Music Days through its association contributions of an average of 240 members as well as donations and funds from the state, the city, the health resort and - until 1990 - the zone border funding. After the reunification of Germany, fewer and fewer public funds were available.
In order to maintain the charisma and quality of the music festival, it became an imperative for the funding company to redesign the management for the preparation and implementation of the festival. The funding company won sponsorship from cultural foundations and well-known companies for the Harzburg Music Days.