Moselle music festival

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The Mosel Music Festival is an annual international music festival in the Moselle region between Trier / Luxembourg and Koblenz .

history

In 1985 , the Moselle Festival Weeks took place for the first time on the initiative of Hermann Lewen , then cultural advisor in Bernkastel-Kues , initially every two years. The aim of the series of events was to stimulate cultural tourism in the Moselle region. The first main venue was the former Machern monastery in Bernkastel-Kues with its acoustically outstanding baroque hall.

The music festival has been part of the Rhineland-Palatinate cultural summer since 1991 and is organized annually. The concerts take place at places of cultural and historical interest such as churches, monasteries, castles, palaces and old wine cellars. Landmarks of the Moselle region such as the Trier basilica , the Electoral Palace Trier and the baroque monastery Machern , Bernkastel-Kues are the main venues. Soloists and orchestras such as Peter Schreier , Barbara Hendricks , Frank-Peter Zimmermann , Thomas Quasthoff , Simone Kermes , Valer Barna-Sabadus , Mischa Maisky , Klaus Florian Vogt and many more have already made the series of events more popular. In 2015 the Mosel Music Festival celebrated its 30th anniversary under the motto Heroes and Legends.

The program is varied, in addition to the focus on chamber music , orchestral music from the classical, romantic and modern times, baroque and vocal concerts are also represented. In addition, crossover events with content from jazz , swing , chanson and those with a gastronomic framework program (opera à la carte, classic culinary) are offered.

In 2007 the series of events was included in the European Festivals Association (EFA) and expanded to the entire Moselle region in the following year.

Since 2007 its own GmbH with the shareholders of the districts of Trier-Saarburg, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Cochem-Zell, Mayen-Koblenz of the Verbandsgemeinde and city of Bernkastel-Kues, it has been operating as a non-profit event company since 2012 (Mosel Musikfestival non-profit event company with limited liability) and is funded by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

In the 2016 season, over 30 different venues along the Moselle between Trier and Koblenz will again be used. The program presentation and the start of advance sales take place annually around St. Nicholas' Day.

The music festival is one of the member organizations of the European Festivals Association .

literature

  • Peter Knüpper: The Moselle Music Festival: A cultural journey through time (in Trier-Saarburg: Yearbook District Trier-Saarburg . - 2011, pp. 107–109. - Ill)
  • Luxemburger Wort: Diversity in Unity , 2010
  • Rheinischer Merkur: Wine, Hype and Song , 2010

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