Spohr Museum

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The museum in the main train station

The Spohr Museum is a museum in Kassel that presents the life and work of the composer, violinist and conductor Louis Spohr (1784–1859).

It has been located in the south wing of the Kassel culture station since 2009 . Before that, it was housed in the Murhard Library from 1959 to 1977 and in the Palais Bellevue from 1977 to 2009 . It is supported by the Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft e. V. In December 2017, the city of Kassel announced that the museum should move back to the Palais Bellevue.

The elongated hallway offers an introduction to the life of the musician, the rooms of the permanent exhibition show furniture, instruments and sheet music from his property. The visitors can not only deal with the music through sound recordings, but also become active themselves at multimedia stations.

The attached archive makes printed sheet music, manuscripts and other documents by Louis Spohr and his environment available to a specialist audience.

Since 2016, the museum has been editing Louis Spohr's correspondence and making the commented texts available online.

The Spohr Museum is a member of the working group for music museums in Germany .

In 2011, the International Louis Spohr Society eV received the City of Kassel's cultural sponsorship award for the Spohr Museum's innovative communication concept. In November 2019, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Culture awarded the Spohr Museum the "Museum of the Month" award.

Web links

literature

  • "Musikermuseen im Aufwind", in: Gewandhausmagazin 67 (2010), pp. 8–13, on the Spohr Museum here p. 12f.
  • Karl Traugott Goldbach: "Of wood and sound waves. Musical instrument studies to touch in the Spohr Museum Kassel", in: Mitteilungen. Journal of the Hessian Museum Association 43 (2012), p. 36.
  • Karl Traugott Goldbach: " Curating with many perspectives in the musician museum ", in: Music exhibitions - intention, realization, interpretation. An interdisciplinary symposium , ed. v. Andreas Meyer (= Folkwang Studies 19), Hildesheim a. a .: Olms 2018, pp. 137-181.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Palais Bellevue in Kassel: Spohr follows the Grimms . In: https://www.hna.de . December 4, 2017 ( hna.de [accessed July 22, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Spohr letters. Retrieved July 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Culture Prize of the City of Kassel. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Press releases from the Hessian Ministry for Science and Culture. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 5.2 "  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 16.3"  E