Festival Oude Muziek
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A regiment of trumpeters on horseback perform in Domplein, the square in the ruins of St. Martin's Cathedral. | |
Genre | Early music |
Dates | Late August – early September |
Location(s) | Utrecht, Netherlands |
Years active | 1982–present |
Attendance | approx. 70,000 (2019)[1] |
Website | oudemuziek |
The Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht ("Utrecht Early Music Festival") is an annual music festival that showcases and celebrates early European art music. The ten-day festival takes place in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and begins in August. The programme includes concerts, activities, lectures, exhibitions, and a symposium.[citation needed]
The primary venue is TivoliVredenburg, which opened in 2014. TivoliVredenburg is on the former site of an earlier music venue, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg. The Muziekcentrum was the festival's primary venue until it was demolished in 2008, to allow for new construction. The main concert hall of the Muziekcentrum was subsumed into the TivoliVredenburg.[2]
Each year, the festival's organisers adopt a theme, which focuses on a particular place, time, and style in early music. The theme shapes not only the style and musical repertoire of the performances, but also the period instruments used.
See also
- Early music revival
- Historically informed performance
References
- ^ "Utrecht Early Music Festival concludes with an increase in ticket sales". oudemuziek.nl. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ Staff writer (1 October 2013). "TivoliVredenburg in juni 2014 open". Architectenweb (in Dutch). Architectenweb BV. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Media related to Festival Oude Muziek at Wikimedia Commons
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festivals
- Boston Early Music Festival
- Festival Oude Muziek
- Flanders Festival
- Regensburg Tage Alter Musik
builders
- Arnold Dolmetsch
- William Dowd
- Frank Hubbard
- Martin Skowroneck
collections
- Bate Collection
- Brussels Musical Instrument Museum
- Metropolitan Museum
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix
- Musikinstrumente Vienna
- National Music Museum
- Smithsonian Institution
- Yale University
- Paris Conservatoire
collectors
instruments
- Harpsichord
- Recorder
- Viol
- Amherst Early Music
- Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute
- Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
- American Recorder Society
- Cambridge Society of Early Music
- Early Music America
- Lute Society
- Lute Society of America
- National Early Music Association
- Society of Recorder Players
- Viola da Gamba Society
- Viola da Gamba Society of America
- Harmonia
- Micrologus
- Millennium of Music
- Pied Piper