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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
Websitewww.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.

History

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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

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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

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Artists

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker" (in German). Deutschlandfunk. 15 August 2010. Archived from the original on 2 August 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  2. ^ "History". musiktage-hitzacker.de. 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker 2016 / Von Haydn bis Django Reinhardt" (in German). Deutschlandfunk. 16 January 2017. Archived from the original on 1 March 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Flute Concerto" (PDF). Isang Yun. Boosey & Hawkes. 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Choralquartett / (2. Streichquartett) (2003, rev. 2006)". Jörg Widmann (in German). Schott Music. 2017. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  6. ^ a b c "Intendant Wille: "Mozart zu spielen ist wie auf rohen Eiern zu laufen"". NDR.de (in German). 15 May 2023. Archived from the original on 25 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Musik - Hitzacker (Elbe) Neun Tage Mozart bei Sommerlichen Musiktagen Hitzacker". Süddeutsche.de (in German). dpa. 28 July 2023. Archived from the original on 29 July 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
  8. ^ a b Weber, Bruno (2001). "Tonerlebnis / Musiktage Hitzacker 2001". neue musikzeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 16 November 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  9. ^ Vries, Jutta de (2014). "69. Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker – durchgetanzt!". neue musikzeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 15 August 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  10. ^ a b "Kein fauler Zauber: Musik und Literatur / Zu den 57. Sommerlichen Musiktagen Hitzacker". neue musikzeitung (in German). 2002. Archived from the original on 16 November 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  11. ^ Brem, Peter (2016). Ein Leben lang erste Geige: Meine Zeit bei den Berliner Philharmonikern (in German). Rowohlt. Archived from the original on 15 August 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  12. ^ "Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). 15 August 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  13. ^ "Nachklapp Hitzacker / Eine Festivalrückschau" (in German). Deutschlandfunk. 7 August 2006. Archived from the original on 2 August 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  14. ^ "Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker / Gipfeltreffen zwischen Romantik und Gegenwart" (in German). Deutschlandfunk. 3 August 2007. Archived from the original on 2 August 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  15. ^ "Pianist Formenti erhält Belmont-Preis" (in German). Augsburger Allgemeine. 26 July 2009. Archived from the original on 2 December 2021. Retrieved 19 June 2017.

Further reading

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  • Lesle, Lutz: Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker. Edition Thomas Herms, Holm 1995. ISBN 3-9804038-3-1
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