Philharmonie Luxembourg

The Philharmonie Luxembourg is a concert hall in the city of Luxembourg, it is Residenzort the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.

The construction

The concert hall was opened in June 2005 on the Place de l'Europe in the Kirchberg area. Architect Christian de Portzamparc, the design of the acoustics in the large concert hall got Albert Yaying Xu. The white main building in plan view the shape of an eye; the steel and glass facade is of 823 white columns of 20 meters high and 30 centimeters in diameter visually dominated. The concert hall has a total enclosed space of 192 883 cubic meters and a total area of ​​around 20,000 square meters. At the steel and glass construction 2,500 tons of structural steel have been installed, the glazed surface is 5,000 square meters. The construction costs amounted to 113.5 million euros.

The halls

The large concert hall Salle de Concerts Grande- Duchesse Joséphine -Charlotte usually has 1307 seats, this can be increased to a maximum of 1500 seats. It is 24 meters long, 48 meters deep and 17 meters high. The stage features 120 musicians place, they can be adjusted to 14 different heights. On its front side is the organ. The acoustic volume includes 19,300 cubic meters.

In the basement of the Philharmonic is a small, 120 pitches comprehensive Hall of the so-called Espace Découverte. It is intended for electroacoustic music, experimental art in electronics, film or video or for interactive music workshops.

Besides the main building there is a also a white shell-shaped chamber music hall Salle de Musique de Chambre; he has 302 people theater-style. His stage is 80 square meters in size, the volume includes 8,153 cubic meters.

The organ

The organ in the concert hall was built by Karl Schuke Berlin organ workshop GmbH. The instrument has sliderchest 83 Register ( 6,441 pipes ), these are spread over 4 manuals and pedal. It is created as a symphonic concert organ; their disposition follows all things German and French models, but also takes English and American elements. The manual range extends from C- c4, the pedal compass of C - g '. The instrument can allude of two gaming tables from. The manual divisions II, III and IV are built as Schwellwerke. A special feature is that individual register of the manual divisions II and III are housed within their ( threshold ) work in another swell ( double swellability ). Likewise, some registers of the pedal are swellable.

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