Music festival on the Oder

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The Music Festival on the Oder is an annual German-Polish music festival on the Oder , the border river between Germany and Poland . The festive days are considered the most important and traditional music festival in the east of Brandenburg .

The festival was launched in 1965 as the »Frankfurter Festtage der Musik« and has been held every year since then at a different location in Poland and Germany along the Oder, each focusing on different topics ranging from classical to contemporary music , for example in 2005 under the title “Limitless Music”. with the opening in the newly built concert hall of the Philharmonic in Zielona Góra or in 2006 to “ Schumann and Chopin - a musical friendship”. In 2011, under the title “Music is the root of all the arts”, the 200th anniversary of Heinrich von Kleist's death was commemorated , next to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the second great artist son of the region. The 2014 festival was all about the appreciation for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, whose birthday 2014 marked the 300th anniversary.

In 2015 the ten-day festival, which takes place at the beginning of March each year, takes place for the 50th time. The cross-border music events are not only widely recognized art experiences and opportunities to meet. They also testify to the cultural identity of this European region that radiates on both sides of the Oder and promote the European idea. The festival has been organized by Messe und Veranstaltungs GmbH Frankfurt (Oder), sponsored by the City of Frankfurt (Oder) , since 1994 in close cooperation with the international music encounters "East-West" of the Zielona Góra Philharmonic.

So far, the venues have been Frankfurt (Oder), Zielona Góra, Szczecin , Eisenhüttenstadt , Rzepin , Müncheberg , Żary , Nowa Sól , Ostrava , Wrocław , Schwedt / Oder and Kalisz .

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  1. ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung (MOZ) of March 10, 2014: Music Festival on the Oder faded away

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