Richard Strauss Institute
The Richard Strauss Institute (RSI) is a musicological research institute , composers museum and concert venue in the Upper Bavarian market of Garmisch-Partenkirchen .
General
The Richard Strauss Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with its four work areas - research institute, exhibition operations, seasonal concerts and Richard Strauss Festival - is a central cultural institution for the market town and the district . The institute houses a musicological reference library and its own archive. a. an extensive documentation on performances of Strauss operas and the partial estate of the composer Hermann Bischoff (1868–1936) belong. The RSI also works closely with the Richard Strauss community of heirs, which is in the possession of the Richard Strauss Archive (RSA) private archive with the estates of Richard and Franz Strauss (1822–1905) and which allows the institute's staff to use and care for them scientifically. As a contact point for questions about the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949), the RSI is in contact with musicians, music researchers, music colleges, universities and opera houses all over the world.
The Richard Strauss Institute exhibition offers the public a small, permanent multimedia exhibition on the composer. In the area of seasonal concerts, the institute is responsible for a series of regular symphony concerts held in cooperation with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Congress Center . On the other hand, the RSI supervises a chamber music series that takes place in the institute's concert hall. The RSI also organizes the Richard Strauss Festival , which takes place annually in June .
Institute building
The Richard Strauss Institute is housed in the Villa Christina in the Partenkirchen district. The building was built in 1893 by the Mannheim cigar manufacturer Georg Ludwig Mayer-Doss (1847–1919), Martha Haushofer's father . Mayer-Doss was also a cousin of the important conductor and Munich general music director Hermann Levi (1839-1900), who had been a frequent guest and also had a villa built in Partenkirchen ( Haus Riedberg ). After the Villa Christina passed into the possession of the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, it used it as a health resort . Before the Richard Strauss Institute was housed, renovations were carried out on the historic villa, during which the loggia of the house was closed and a concert hall was set up.
history
After there had been repeated calls for a Strauss Research Institute based in Munich since the 1960s , the Richard Strauss Institute was founded in 1982 as a municipal institution in Munich. The then General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera and Chairman of the Richard Strauss Society, Wolfgang Sawallisch , gave a decisive impetus . However, the institute's human, spatial and financial resources did not allow it to fully fulfill the ambitious tasks of the RSI. As a result, starting in 1997, considerations were made to transfer the Richard Strauss Institute from Munich to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The public perception of Garmisch-Partenkirchen as a central location for Richard Strauss had increased significantly, especially since the late 1980s. Richard-Strauss-Platz in the town center and a Richard-Strauss-Brunnen erected there in 1989 played a role in raising awareness, but also the annual cultural festival held for the first time in the same year under the title “ Richard-Strauss-Tage ” Highlight in the concert life of the place. In particular, however, the fact that the composer's Villa Strauss, completed in 1908, houses the Richard Strauss Archive , speaks for Garmisch-Partenkirchen as the ideal location for the Richard Strauss Institute.
The RSI was set up as a municipal office of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen market administration , which also took over the sponsorship and, together with the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art, provides the funds for the ongoing institute operation. At the beginning of September 1998, the Richard Strauss Institute commenced provisional operations on a former barracks site, where it remained until it was housed in the Villa Christina . On the 50th anniversary of the composer's death, September 8, 1999, the RSI was reopened in this historic building.
See also
- Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
- Villa Strauss in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
