Bamberg concert and congress hall

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Bamberg concert and congress hall

The Bamberg Concert and Congress Hall is a concert and event hall in Bamberg . It is the home of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra - Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie , one of the leading German symphony orchestras. In addition, it is used for conferences, congresses, trade fairs and exhibitions as well as lecture, panel and music events of various kinds. Two hotels are connected to the entire complex.

The Bamberg Concert Hall was inaugurated in 1993. Erected near the old town directly on the eastern bank of the Regnitz , it forms an urban ensemble with neighboring historical buildings such as the city archive and the former hospital. Important vistas emerge to known cultural buildings of Bamberg, especially to the on the Cathedral Hill located imperial cathedral of Bamberg and also increased lying Michaelsberg Monastery . An extensive modernization and renovation of the concert hall followed in 2009, which included the expansion of the foyer with two new glass extensions as well as a new color concept inside the building as well as a redesign of the hall forecourt.

The Bamberg Concert Hall has two halls: the concert hall called Joseph Keilberth Hall with around 1,400 seats and the smaller Hegel Hall as an event hall that can accommodate up to 700 people. Together with the foyers, the concert hall has rooms of more than 6,000 m². The concert hall is owned by the city of Bamberg and operated by Bamberg Congress + Event GmbH, which also operates the Brose Arena in the south of the city.

Planning and construction

First considerations for building a concert hall in Bamberg go back to the late 1970s. Since 1950, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra has been using the former church of the Bamberg Dominican Monastery as a concert hall, which , however, was only to be regarded as a temporary facility due to the spatial and acoustic conditions. In 1976 a sponsorship association was formed, and in 1980 the city entered the specific planning and tendering phase. The concert hall was built between 1989 and 1993 by the city of Bamberg according to the plans of the Munich architects Rollenhagen and Großmann. The opening took place in autumn 1993. The net construction costs amounted to 60 million DM, the financing was mainly covered by subsidies from the Free State of Bavaria (60% of the construction costs) and the Upper Franconian Foundation (fixed amount of 5 million DM), the rest came from the city's own funds.

Joseph Keilberth Hall

Home of the Bamberg Symphony

The large concert hall, which is the domicile of the Bamberg Symphony, is named after the orchestra's longstanding chief conductor, Joseph Keilberth . The conductor is considered to be a crucial, central figure in the history of the Bamberg Symphony and held his office from 1950 until his sudden death in 1968.

The Joseph-Keilberth-Saal offers approx. 1,400 seats. It was inaugurated on September 10, 1993 with the performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 , the “Symphony of a Thousand”, under the baton of then chief conductor Horst Stein .

In accordance with the funding guidelines and a framework lease agreement, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra enjoys an unrestricted right of reservation for the Joseph Keilberth Hall for all rehearsals and concerts as well as for their extensive recording activities within the framework of the production contract with Bayerischer Rundfunk . Each season the orchestra gives around 40 public concerts in the hall, which is equipped with a large concert organ from the Jann organ building company. The orchestra's history has recorded more than 600 performances in the hall to this day. In addition to the orchestra's five subscription series, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra's range of concerts in the Joseph-Keilberth-Saal also includes organ and special concerts as well as concerts as part of its own summer festival.

The number of visitors to the Bamberg Symphony doubled with the opening season of the concert hall: instead of three subscription series with a total of 20 concerts, as was the case when the Dominican was built, which offered space for around 1,100 visitors, the orchestra has had five concert series with a total of 34 concerts since the 1993/1994 season , which are visited by around 6,000 subscribers alone - with around 70,000 inhabitants of Bamberg. The utilization of all concerts, subscription and freely sold concerts, is regularly well over 95%.

Jann organ

A visually distinctive element of the Joseph Keilberth Hall is the large concert organ . The four-manual instrument with its 74 registers and 5830 pipes was specially made for the Bamberg concert hall. The builder was the Georg Jann company from Alkofen in Lower Bavaria . The Association of Friends of the Bamberg Symphony took over the sponsorship of the Bamberg organ

According to the original plans, the Jann organ is committed to multiple tasks: Participation in the great late romantic orchestral works and oratorios with organ participation, plus interpretation of the literature for organ and orchestra as well as the literature for organ solo.

The instrument's festive inauguration concert took place on October 9, 1993, a few weeks after the concert hall opened. The program included works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and César Franck , the Ciacona op.54 by the Bamberg composer Karl Höller and Max Reger's Symphonic Fantasy and Fugue op.57.The soloist was the Bamberg concert organist Edgar Krapp , who was responsible for the conception the organ had played a major role and since the inauguration had artistically supervised the organ series of the Bamberg Symphony, located in the Joseph-Keilberth-Saal, since 2014 Christian Schmitt has curated this concert series, which also received the Echo-Klassik in 2013 with a solo recording with the Bamberg Symphony. The organists who made guest appearances in Bamberg as part of this series include Simon Preston , Marie-Claire Alain , Daniel Roth , Olivier Latry , Jean Boyer , Vincent Warnier , Michel Bouvard and Wayne Marshall , as well as the Bamberg cathedral organist Markus Willinger and the Cologne cathedral organist and Winfried Bönig, who was born in Bamberg .

I main work C – a 3
1. Praestant 16 ′
2. Dumped 16 ′
3. Principal 8th'
4th Flûte harm. 8th'
5. Copula 8th'
6th Viol 8th'
7th Great fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 4 ′
9. recorder 4 ′
10. Major third 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′
11. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Super octave 2 ′
13. Forest flute 2 ′
14th Cornett V 8th'
15th Mixtura maior VI 2 ′
16. Mixtura minor IV 1'
17th Trumpet 16 ′
18th Trumpet 8th'
19th Trumpet 4 ′
II Positive C – a 3
20th Pommer 16 ′
21st Principal 8th'
22nd Voce umana 8th'
23. Reed flute 8th'
24. octave 4 ′
25th Wooden flute 4 ′
26th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
27. Schwegel 2 ′
28. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
29 Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
30th Sif flute 1'
31. Scharff IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
32. Dulcian 16 ′
33. Cromorne 8th'
34. musette 8th'
Carillon
Tremulant
III Swell C – a 3
35. Drone 16 ′
36. Violin principal 8th'
37. Double flute 8th'
38. Tube bare 8th'
39. Aeoline 8th'
40. Vox coelestis 8th'
41. octave 4 ′
42. Transverse flute 4 ′
43. viola 4 ′
44. Night horn 2 ′
45. Echocornet II-IV
46. Fittings IV-VI 2 ′
47. Harmonia aeth. IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
48. bassoon 16 ′
49. Trumpet harm. 8th'
50. Hautbois 8th'
51. Voix humaine 8th'
52. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
IV Bombing Factory C – a 3
53. Trompeta magna 16 ′
54. Trompeta real 8th'
55. Trompeta quinta 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
56. Trompeta alta 4 ′
57. Clarinet 8th'
Pedal C – g 1
58. Double bass 32 ′
59. Principal bass 16 ′
60. Violonbass 16 ′
61. Sub-bass 16 ′
62. Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
63. Octave bass 8th'
64. Bass flute 8th'
65. cello 8th'
66. Bass third 6 2 ⁄ 5  ′
67. octave 4 ′
68. Peasant flute 4 ′
69. Mixture VI 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
70. Bombard 32 ′
71. trombone 16 ′
72. Basson 16 ′
73. Trumpet 8th'
74. shawm 4 ′
Tremulant
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, IV / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
    • Super octave coupling: III / I, III / III
    • Sub-octave coupling: III / I, III / I

Hegel room

The name of the Hegel Hall in the Bamberg Concert Hall refers to the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , who worked in Bamberg in 1807/1808 and published his first major work there, the Phenomenology of Spirit . The hall named after him holds up to 700 places, depending on the arrangement of the seating. The Bamberg Music Association used the hall for its chamber concerts for several years. The room acoustics, however, are primarily designed for language events; the Hegel Hall is primarily part of the hotel's congress and conference facilities.

Modernization and renovation of the concert hall

During the sociology congress 2016

In the summer of 2008, 15 years after its opening, the first step in the comprehensive modernization of the Bamberg concert hall followed by optimizing the sound of the Joseph Keilberth Hall. The Japanese acoustic designer Yasuhisa Toyota , who is also responsible for the sound of the Suntory Hall in Tokyo , the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, was in charge. In the course of the work on the acoustics of the Bamberg concert hall, the orchestra setup was modified by using newly made, variable and semi-circular platforms. The costs of approx. 200,000 euros were borne by the Upper Franconian Foundation, the Bamberger Symphoniker's own funds and the Association of Friends of the Bamberger Symphoniker eV.

In the course of 2009, the Bamberg concert hall was redesigned and renovated three times: the foyer was enlarged by two new extensions equipped with a glass facade, the Joseph Keilberth hall and the foyer received a new color concept and the forecourt of the concert hall has been redesigned. The Hamburg designer Peter Schmidt provided the idea . The interior renovation of the existing building was carried out by the Bamberg architects Rebhan. The Bamberg architects Mietusch und Partner took on the planning of the foyer extension. The foyer of the concert hall has increased its area by 850 m² due to the expansion to two floors. The entire process of rebuilding and renovating the Bamberg concert hall was completed after eight months of pure construction. The costs of the project amounted to 6.3 million euros, which were raised in equal parts by the Free State of Bavaria, the Upper Franconian Foundation and the city of Bamberg as the owner of the concert and congress hall. On the forecourt of the concert hall is a sculpture by Erwin Wortelkamp, commonly known as a “tuning fork” .

The reopening of the Joseph Keilberth Hall was celebrated on September 25, 2009 with a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 as part of a gala concert . Jonathan Nott , chief conductor in Bamberg, conducted the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the boys of the Bamberg Cathedral Choir, the British mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin sang the solo part.

literature

  • Symphony on the Regnitz . A commemorative publication for the opening of the Bamberg Concert and Congress Hall. Edited by Verlag Fränkischer Tag and the city of Bamberg, 1993.
  • Marco Frei: The way to perfect sound. Yasuhisa Toyota optimizes the Bamberg concert and congress hall . In: “Das Orchester” 10/2008, ISSN  0030-4468 , p. 38.
  • There is no such thing as a hit list for good acoustics . Interview with Yasuhisa Toyota. In: "Fränkischer Tag", Bamberg, ZDB -ID 2221814-2 , from July 3, 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Status: January 20, 2009. Source: Bamberger Symphoniker - Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie.
  2. ↑ Source: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra - Bavarian State Philharmonic.
  3. ↑ More information about the organ (PDF file)
  4. ↑ Marco Frei: The way to perfect sound. Yasuhisa Toyota optimizes the Bamberg concert and congress hall. In: Das Orchester 10/2008, p. 38.

Web links

Commons : Concert and Congress Hall Bamberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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