Symphony Hall (Boston)
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| location | Boston | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 20 '33.3 " N , 71 ° 5' 8.9" W | ||
| Built | 1900 | ||
| architect | McKim, Mead, and White | ||
| Architectural style | Neo-renaissance | ||
| NRHP number | 99000633 | ||
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| The NRHP added | January 20, 1999 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | January 20, 1999 | ||
The Symphony Hall is a concert hall in Boston in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . It is located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue , adjacent to the New England Conservatory . It was designed in 1900 by the architects McKim, Mead, and White for the Boston Symphony Orchestra . Wallace Clement Sabine , a then young physics professor at Harvard University , developed the acoustics concept. In 1999 the concert hall was registered as a National Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places .
History and architecture
After the Boston Music Hall, the orchestra's original concert hall, was no longer available at the end of the 19th century due to the construction of new streets and subways, the Symphony Hall was rebuilt. To this day, the hall is considered one of the best performance venues in the world for classical music.
The hall was designed based on the model of the Leipzig Gewandhaus from 1884, which, however, was largely destroyed in the Second World War . The design of the interior is cuboid with 61 ft (18.6 m ) high, 75 ft (22.9 m) wide and 125 ft (38.1 m) in length and was based on models such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam or Musikverein constructed .
Statues
In the upper part of the walls of the concert hall are a total of 16 replicas of Greek and Roman statues , the mythical present and historical figures. In detail it concerns:
| figure | Location of the model |
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| Starting with a view of the stage on the right | |
| Faunus with childish Bacchus | Naples |
| Apollo with Kithara | Rome |
| Girls from Herculaneum | Dresden |
| Dancing Faunus | Rome |
| Demosthenes | Rome |
| Sitting anacreon | Copenhagen |
| Euripides | Rome |
| Diana of Versailles | Paris |
| Beginning on the left with a view of the stage | |
| Resting satyr by Praxiteles | Rome |
| Amazon | Berlin |
| Hermes Ludovisi | Paris |
| Athena Lemnia | Dresden (head: Bologna ) |
| Sophocles | Rome |
| Standing anacreon | Copenhagen |
| Aeschines | Naples |
| Apollo from Belvedere | Rome |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 13, 2019.
- ↑ a b National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved January 23, 2007.
- ^ Raymond Walter Apple Jr .: Apple's America. The discriminating traveler's guide to 40 cities in the United States and Canada . North Point Press, New York 2005, ISBN 0-86547-685-3 .