Concert hall

The Wiener Musikverein - traditionally praised for its good acoustics.

The Auditorio de Tenerife in Tenerife's capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

The concert hall of the Szczecin Philharmonic .
A concert hall is a building that serves as a performance venue for choral and instrumental music as part of concerts . Many larger cities have such a named facility. The actual room in which the performances take place is called the “concert hall”.
Two classic shapes can be distinguished in concert halls: the rectangular "shoebox" as in the Wiener Musikverein and the oval, terraced "vineyard" as in the Berlin Philharmonic .
The room acoustics in numerous halls must or had to be optimized later. Heinrich Keilholz was a recognized expert in this area.
In German, concert halls often also have the names Philharmonie or Tonhalle .
Well-known concert halls
- Concertgebouw , Amsterdam
- Megaro Mousikis , Athens
- Festival hall , Baden-Baden
- L'Auditori , Barcelona
- Palau de la Música Catalana , Barcelona
- Stadtcasino , Basel
- Philharmonic , Berlin
- Konzerthaus (former theater ), Berlin
- Rudolf-Oetker-Halle , Bielefeld
- Symphony Hall , Birmingham
- Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr , Bochum
- Beethovenhalle , Bonn
- Symphony Hall , Boston
- The bell , Bremen
- National Forum for Music , Wroclaw
- Concert hall , Bruges
- Athenaeum (Bucharest) Concert Hall of the George Enescu State Philharmonic , Bucharest
- Concert hall in the Steinfurter Bagno , Burgsteinfurt
- Orchestra Hall, Chicago
- Konzerthaus , Dortmund
- Kulturpalast , Dresden
- Tonhalle , Düsseldorf
- Mercator Hall , Duisburg
- Saalbau , Essen
- Alte Oper , Frankfurt am Main
- Konzerthaus , Freiburg im Breisgau
- Victoria Hall , Geneva
- Handel Hall , Halle (Saale)
- Elbphilharmonie , Hamburg
- Laeiszhalle (formerly the music hall), Hamburg
- Large broadcasting hall of the NDR, Hanover
- Leibnizsaal , Hanover
- Dome Hall , Hanover
- Finlandia Hall , Helsinki
- Musiikkitalo , Helsinki
- City Hall , Kassel
- Myūza Kawasaki Symphonic Hall , Kawasaki
- Philharmonic , Cologne
- Copenhagen Concert Hall , Copenhagen
- Gewandhaus Leipzig
- Brucknerhaus , Linz
- Cadogan Hall , London
- Royal Albert Hall , London
- Wigmore Hall , London
- Walt Disney Concert Hall , Los Angeles
- Philharmonic , Luxembourg
- Concert Hall (KKL) , Lucerne
- Auditorio Nacional de Música , Madrid
- Teatro Monumental , Madrid
- Moscow Conservatory , Moscow
- International House of Music, Moscow
- Gasteig , Munich
- Herkulessaal , Munich
- Concert Church Neubrandenburg , Neubrandenburg
- Carnegie Hall , New York
- Meistersingerhalle , Nuremberg
- Concert hall , Palanga
- Philharmonic , Paris
- Salle Pleyel , Paris
- Rudolfinum , Prague
- City hall , Reutlingen
- Harpa Concert Hall , Reykjavík
- Auditorium Parco della Musica , Rome
- Philharmonic , Saint Petersburg
- Concert Hall , Sapporo
- Octagonal house , Sondershausen
- Stettin Philharmonic , Szczecin
- Berwaldhalle , Stockholm
- Konserthuset , Stockholm
- Beethovensaal , Stuttgart
- Opera House , Sydney
- Talar-e Rudaki Opera and Concert House , Tehran
- Suntory Hall , Tokyo
- Roy Thomson Hall , Toronto
- Festhalle , Viersen
- National Philharmonic , Warsaw
- Kennedy Center , Washington
- Weimarhalle , Weimar
- Musikverein , Vienna
- Konzerthaus , Vienna
- Kurhaus , Wiesbaden
- City Hall , Wuppertal
- Tonhalle , Zurich
literature
- Michael Astroh, Manfred Hamm: Concert halls . m: con Edition, Mannheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814220-0-9
- Leo Leroy Beranek: Concert halls and opera houses. Music, acoustics, and architecture . Springer, New York 2004, ISBN 0-387-95524-0
- Hans-Ulrich Glogau: The concert hall. On the structure of old and new concert halls . Olms, Hildesheim 1989, ISBN 3-487-09241-7
- Andrea Harrandt: Concert halls. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 . (to concert halls in Austria)
- Rudolf Skoda: The Leipzig Gewandhaus buildings. International comparison of concert buildings . Verl. Bauwesen, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-345-00781-9
- Benedikt Stampa: Concert halls in Germany , German Music Information Center (MIZ), 2017 ( full text ; PDF; 102 kB)
Web links
Wiktionary: Konzerthaus - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations
- Concert halls in Germany (list from the German Music Information Center)