Early music festivals
Early music festivals is a generic term for musical festivals focused on music before Beethoven, or including Historically informed performance of later works. The increase in the number of music festivals specialising in Early Music is a reflection of the Early Music Revival of the 1970s and 1980s.
Many larger festivals such as that an Aix-en-Provence Festival also include Early Music sections, as do, inevitably, festivals of sacred music; such as the Festival de Música Sacra do Baixo Alentejo, in Portugal.
Although most early music festivals are centred on commercial performance, many include also workshops.
List of festivals by country
Annual unless otherwise listed.
- See also Category list Early music festivals
- Festivals which were notable, producing radio-broadcasts and recordings, but now defunct, are listed with an indent at the end of each country listing; for example Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, Germany.
Austria
Bolivia
Belgium
Canada
- Montreal Baroque. June.[9]
- Vancouver Early Music Festival. August.[10]
Croatia
- Rovigno Baroque Music Festival[11]
Czech Republic
- Festival of early music at Český Krumlov[12]
- Letní slavnosti staré hudby (Summer festivities of early music), Prague.[13]
- Summer School of Early Music Prachatice[14]
Denmark
- Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival. October.[15]
Finland
- Vantaa Baroque Week. October.[16]
- Helsinki Early Music Week[17]
France
- Festival d'Ambronay, Ambronay. Since 1980.[18]
- Festival de Beaune[19] July.
- Festival de l'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud Abbey. Since 1975.
- Musiques à la Chabotterie, Vendée. Since 1997.[20]
- Marseille March.[21]
- Nantes Spring.[22] May/June
- Musique ancienne, Maguelone, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone[23] June.
- Haut-Jura[24] June.
- Aix-en-Provence Festival[25] July.
- Le Festival Renaissances, Bar-le-Duc.[26] July.
- Musique ancienne de Callas, Callas, Var.[27] July.
- Musique et Mémoire, Faucogney-et-la-Mer.[28] July.
- Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet. Le Thoronet Abbey[29]
- Festival Baroque de Tarentaise, Albertville.[30] August.
- Le Festival International de Musique Ancienne de Simiane, Simiane-la-Rotonde.[31] August.
- Festival de Sablé, Sablé-sur-Sarthe.[32] August
- Academie Bach, Arques-la-Bataille.[33] Aug.
- Marseille Autumn.[34] Oct- Dec.
- Saint-Michel en Thiérache, Saint-Michel, Aisne.[35]
- Viola da gamba festival Asfeld.[36]
Germany
- Arolser Barockfestspiele. Bad Arolsen. May.
- Bach-Biennale Weimar. Since 2008, biennual in July.
- Festival alter Musik Bernau, Berlin.[37]
- Festival Güldener Herbst, Thuringia; in Weimar, Erfurt, Meiningen, Rudolstadt, Sondershausen, Eisenach, Kühndorf, Suhl and Molsdorf.[38] October
- Händelfestspiele
- Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage, Magdeburg[39]
- Tage Alter Musik, Berlin[40] Oct.
- Landshuter Hofmusiktage, Landshut[41]
- Bachtage, Potsdam[42]
- Bachfest Leipzig, Leipzig[43] June
- Montalbâne festival of Medieval music, Schloss Neuenburg, Freyburg. June.[44]
- Musica Viva, Osnabrücker Land. Schloss Bad Iburg, Schloss Gesmold, Schloss Königsbrück, various churches and monasteries.[45] September.
- Tage Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik.[46]
- Tage Alter Musik Herne, Herne. November.
- Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Regensburg, Whitsun[47]
- Sanssouci, Potsdam[48] June
- Thüringer Bachwochen, Thuringia.[49] March/April.
- Bayreuth Baroque[50] Sept.
- Zeitfenster - Biennale Alter Musik, Berlin. Biannual in April.[51]
- Internationales Heinrich-Schütz-Fest. Moves location, biannual.
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- Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, ran from 2002-2006.
Ireland
- East Cork Early Music Festival[52]
- Galway Early Music Festival[53]
Italy
Major festivals with some early music events:
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- Alessandro Scarlatti Festival, Palermo, Sicily, ran 1999-2002
Latvia
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Romania
Russia
Serbia
- Belgrade International Early Music Festival[86]
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
- Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona, Barcelona,[90] since 1977.
- Festival de Música Antigua Iberoamericana "Domingo Marcos Duran". Cáceres.[91]
- Festival de Música Antigua de Daroca, Zaragoza, since 1979. August.[92]
- Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla, Seville.[93][94]
- Festival de Música Antigua, Gijón.[95]
- Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza. Úbeda and Baeza since 1997.[96]
- Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada[97]
- Música Antigua Aranjuez, Aranjuez.[98]
- Musica Antigua Aracena, Aracena.[99]
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- Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Xàtiva, Valencia[100]
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
- Amherst Early Music Festival. New London, Connecticut.[118]
- Boston Early Music Festival, biannual.
- Bloomington Early Music Festival, Indiana[119]
- Indianapolis Early Music Festival. Since 1966.[120]
- Washington Early Music Festival], Washington, D.C.[121]
- Madison Early Music Festival, Madison, Wisconsin. Since 2000.[122]
- Texas Toot - The Texas Early Music Festival. Workshops.[123]
- Carmel Bach Festival, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.[124]
- Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Santa Cruz, California.[125]
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