Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker

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Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker
Genremostly chamber music
Beginsend of July
Endsbeginning of August (9 days)
Frequencyannual
Location(s) Hitzacker
Inaugurated1946;78 years ago (1946)
People
Website www.musiktage-hitzacker.de

Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker ("summerly music days Hitzacker") is the name of a traditional international festival of classical chamber music in Hitzacker, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1946, it is held annually for nine days beginning with the last weekend in July.

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History

The first festival was held in the summer of 1946, it is therefore regarded as the first chamber music festival in Germany. [1] The first artistic director was the cellist Hans Döscher who directed the festival until his death in 1971. He focused the festival on chamber music, both Early music and contemporary. [2] From 2012 to 2015, the violinist Carolin Widmann directed the festival. From 2016, Oliver Wille has been the director, a founding member of the Kuss Quartet and a professor of chamber music for strings at the Musikhochschule Hannover. [3]

Program

The program has included concerts of chamber music from medieval to regular premieres, new concert projects, literature, dance and film. Each year used to have a motto, such as "Europe" in 2009 and "Ins Labor" in 2010, presenting experiments in music, and music related to inventors. [1] In 2016, the new director programmed without a motto, but focused on the festival as a meeting point and had the audience decide one concert program. [3]

Premieres have included the Flute Concerto by Isang Yun on 30 July 1977, played by Karlheinz Zöller and conducted by Günther Weißenborn. [4] Jörg Widmann's second string quartet, Choralquartett, was commissioned by the festival and premiered by the Keller Quartet on 29 July 2003. [5]

Focus

Artists

International artists who have appeared at the festival include "composers in residence" such as Krzysztof Penderecki in 2001, before Aribert Reimann, Olivier Messiaen, György Ligeti and Witold Lutosławski, [8] also Heinz Holliger, Bernhard Lang, Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm. Dieter Ammann was composer in residence in 2014. [9]

Instrumentalists have included Anatol Ugorski, [10] Boris Pergamenschikow, Dinorah Varsi, [8] Rosamunde Quartet, [10] Hilliard Ensemble, [11] Stephen Kovacevich, [12] Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta, [13] and Ensemble Modern. [14] The conductor and pianist Marino Formenti  [ de ] received the Belmont Prize at the festival in 2009. [15]

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References

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