Kaim-Saal

The Kaim Hall was a concert hall in Munich- Maxvorstadt.

History

The building in the Louis XVI style was built in 1895 by architect Martin Dülfer, renamed in October 1905 in the Tonhalle and 1944 destroyed by aerial bombs. The hall was one of the first venues of today's Munich Philharmonic, which had been founded by Franz Kaim in 1893 under the name Kaim Orchestra.

On June 25, 1903 took place in the hall a partial premiere of Arthur Schnitzler's " La Ronde" instead: The Academic - dramatic club was the scene perform IV to VI members in a closed event and was subsequently resolved by the Senate of the University.

Pentecost 1907 was the Kaim -Saal of the venue of the " Munich congress " of the Theosophical Society, through the separation of Rudolf Steiner was initiated by this association.

Thomas Mann took in May 1904 in a letter to his future wife, Katia Pringsheim relation to the concert hall and wrote:

" Strangely, it is almost always the Kaimsaal where I see you -. Thing is because I used to watched you often there through the opera glass before we knew each other "

There is now an office building with the seat of the Bavarian Hotel and Restaurant Association on the site of the building in the Türkenstraße 5.

Organ

The company Walcker built in 1895 as Opus 733 organ with 50 registers. Max Reger Choral Fantasy Opus 52 No. 3 took place here under Karl Straube on November 9, 1901 their first performance. The organ had the following disposition:

• Pairing: III / I; II / I; III / II; I / P; II / P; III / P.
• Accessories: Collectivpedal for tutti and Coppeln; 2 Combination push buttons; Generalcrescendo and decrescendo; Expression pedal for III. Manual; Generalcrescendo "on"; Combination trigger for push buttons.

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