Lucerne Festival

The Lucerne Festival is an international music festival of classical music in Lucerne. It is one of the most prestigious festivals and annually attracts international artists from around the world to Lucerne. The Festival sees itself as holding concerts in the traditional sense at world-class level, but also as a mediator of contemporary music and art events that indirectly related to music.

The Lucerne Festival held every year three festivals:

• In SUMMER ( each August since 1938): Find Under this main festivals annually in August and September to 100 events. Around 30 symphony concerts with the world's best orchestras and conductors thereby form the core of the event. Since 1999, the Summer Festival is shown under a certain topic. Important artistic components festivals are the artistes étoiles, the composer-in -residence and orchestras -in-residence. In addition, event and concert series at certain musical themes and territories, as well as numerous events and platforms for young talents and artists.

• To EASTER (in each case during the Easter period, since 1988): The festival around Easter focuses on an old tradition from the Baroque period resorting exclusively to sacred music. The concerts take place here, especially in the churches of the city of Lucerne.

• On PIANO ( each November since 1998): The Autumn Festival is exclusively dedicated to the keyboard instruments. Besides the classical piano music here is also the Jazz in the foreground. Parallel to the festival find pure jazz events in the bars of the city of Lucerne under the motto Piano Off-Stage! instead provide both classic jazz interpretations also boogie -woogie, blues and soul.

From summer 2003 until his death in 2014 led Claudio Abbado as chief conductor of the festival 's Lucerne Festival Orchestra, made ​​up of renowned international musicians. A platform for the music of the 20th and 21st century music, the Lucerne Festival Academy by, - In addition, the Lucerne Festival operates since 2004 in collaboration with the University of Lucerne.

History

In the summer of 1938 a great concert under the baton of Arturo Toscanini took place in Lucerne Triebschen, the former residence of Richard Wagner, first held. From the beginning, the concerts of the festival were very well received, especially in radio stations from around the world. In the 1940s, became the Swiss Festival Orchestra, founded an association of the best Swiss orchestra musicians, and a central element of the International Music Festival in Lucerne International Monetary Fund, as the festival was called since 1943. In the following decades, the International Monetary Fund were among the world's leading festivals for classical music. The most important orchestras, conductors and soloists each guest appearances for several weeks in the city of Lucerne and gave concerts in different places.

Since 1970, the event is run by a foundation. Since the 1970s, the annual festivals were placed under various mottos and guiding principles. Numerous parallel events, such as the groundbreaking series musica.nova emerged. With the new building of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne KKL in the late 1990s by the French architect Jean Nouvel, the festival received a new setting appropriate to it with one of the best concert halls in the world. In 2000, the renaming of the IMF occurs in the Lucerne Festival with the simultaneous restructuring of today's three festivals under the umbrella of a foundation.