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.

Australia

• Hobart Early Music Festival^[1]

Austria

• Resonanzen^[2] Konzerthaus, Vienna.
• Trigonale Festival der Alten Musik, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia. Sept.^[3]
• Barocktage Stift Melk. May/June.^[4]
• Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. July/August.
• Donaufestwochen im Strudengau. July/August

Bolivia

• Festival de Chiquitos

Belgium

• Festival van Vlaanderen, section Musica Antiqua Bruges, July/August^[5]
• Laus Polyphoniae - Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerp August^[6]
• Festival van Vlaanderen, Gent. Sept/October.^[7]
• Festival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie^[8]
• Baroque Music at Chateau of Chimay, Hainaut.^[9]

Canada

• Montreal Baroque. June.^[10]
• Vancouver Early Music Festival. August.^[11]

Croatia

• Rovigno Baroque Music Festival^[12]

Czech Republic

• Festival of early music at Český Krumlov^[13]
• Letní slavnosti staré hudby (Summer festivities of early music), Prague.^[14]
• Opera Barocca Prague^[15]
• Summer School of Early Music Prachatice^[16]

Denmark

• Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival. October.^[17]

Finland

Late Medieval and Early Renaissance European music ensemble La Morra at Sastamala Gregoriana festival

• Vantaa Baroque Week. October.^[18]
• Helsinki Early Music Week^[19]
• Sastamala Gregoriana^[20]

France

• Festival d'Ambronay, Ambronay. Since 1980.^[21]
• Festival de Beaune^[22] July.
• Festival de l'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud Abbey. Since 1975.
• Musiques à la Chabotterie, Vendée. Since 1997.^[23]
• Marseille March.^[24]
• Nantes Spring.^[25] May/June
• Musique ancienne, Maguelone, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone^[26] June.
• Haut-Jura^[27] June.
• Aix-en-Provence Festival^[28] July.
• Le Festival Renaissances, Bar-le-Duc.^[29] July.
• Musique ancienne de Callas, Callas, Var.^[30] July.
• Musique et Mémoire, Faucogney-et-la-Mer.^[31] July.
• Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet. Le Thoronet Abbey^[32]
• Festival de musique de Conques.^[33] July–August.
• Festival Baroque de Tarentaise, Albertville.^[34] August.
• Le Festival International de Musique Ancienne de Simiane, Simiane-la-Rotonde.^[35] August.
• Festival de Sablé, Sablé-sur-Sarthe.^[36] August
• Academie Bach, Arques-la-Bataille.^[37] Aug.
• Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Auvergne.^[38] Aug-Sept.
• Festival baroque de Pontoise.^[39] Sept-Oct.
• Festival de Lanvellec.^[40] Oct.
• Marseille Autumn.^[41] Oct- Dec.
• Festival Paris Baroque, Paris.^[42] Nov-Dec.
• Saint-Michel en Thiérache, Saint-Michel, Aisne.^[43]
• Viola da gamba festival Asfeld.^[44]

Germany

• Bachwoche Ansbach, Ansbach summer.
• Arolser Barockfestspiele. Bad Arolsen. May.
• Bach-Biennale Weimar. Since 2008, biennual in July.
• Festival alter Musik Bernau, Berlin.^[45]
• Festival Güldener Herbst, Thuringia; in Weimar, Erfurt, Meiningen, Rudolstadt, Sondershausen, Eisenach, Kühndorf, Suhl and Molsdorf.^[46] October
• Händelfestspiele
  • Handel Festival, Halle (June)
  • Handel Festival, Göttingen (May)
  • Handel Festival, Karlsruhe (Händelfestspiele Karlsruhe) (February)
• Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage, Magdeburg^[47]
• Tage Alter Musik, Berlin^[48] Oct.
• Landshuter Hofmusiktage, Landshut^[49]
• Bachtage, Potsdam^[50]
• Bachfest Leipzig, Leipzig. June
• Montalbâne festival of Medieval music, Schloss Neuenburg, Freyburg. June.^[51]
• Musica Viva, Osnabrück Land. Schloss Bad Iburg, Schloss Gesmold, Schloss Königsbrück, various churches and monasteries.^[52] September.
• Tage Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik.^[53]
• Tage Alter Musik Herne, Herne. November.
• Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Regensburg, Whitsun^[54]
• Tage Alter Musik im Saarland (TAMiS), Saarbrücken, March/April ^[55]
• Sanssouci, Potsdam^[56] June
• Thüringer Bachwochen, Thuringia.^[57] March/April.
• Bayreuth Baroque^[58] Sept.
• Zeitfenster - Biennale Alter Musik, Berlin. Biannual in April.^[59]
• Internationales Heinrich-Schütz-Fest. Moves location, biannual.
  • Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, ran from 2002-2006.

Ireland

• East Cork Early Music Festival ^[60]
• Galway Early Music Festival^[61]

Italy

• Settimane barocche di Brescia, Brescia.^[62]
• Festival di Cremona Claudio Monteverdi, Cremona. May.^[63]
• FIMA - Festival di Musica Antica, Urbino. July.^[64]
• FTMA - Festival Toscano di Musica Antica. Pisa.^[65]
• Festival Galuppi, Venice.^[66]
• Collegio Ghislieri di Pavia - Primavera Barocca. March–June. Since 2003.^[67][68]
• Musica Antica a Magnano, Magnano^[69] July/Sept.^[70]
• Mousiké - Festival di musica antica del Mediterraneo, Bari^[71]
• Musica Antica in Sicilia, Associazione Antonio il Verso, Palermo. Dec.^[72][73]
• Piccola Accademia di Montisi, Tuscany. Workshops for harpsichordists. July.^[74]

Major festivals with some early music events:

• Stresa Festival. Stresa, Lake Maggiore. Some early music events.^[75][76]
• Ravenna Festival. Some early music events. June/July.^[77]
• Festival Grandezze e Meraviglie, Modena.^[78] Sept/Nov.
• Bolzano Festival. Some early music events.^[79][80]
  • Alessandro Scarlatti Festival, Palermo, Sicily, ran 1999-2002

Latvia

• Senās mūzikas festivāls, every July in the Rundāle Palace.^[81]

Netherlands

• Early Music Festival, Utrecht.^[82][83][84]
• Geelvinck Pianoforte Festival, Amsterdam.^[85]

Norway

• Festival, Bergen.^[86]
• Festival, Larvik.^[87]

Poland

• Maj z Muzyką Dawną - May with Early Music, Wrocław^[88]
• Jarosław Early Music Festival, Jarosław^[89]
• Misteria Paschalia, Kraków.^[90] Easter
• Mikołaj Radomski (Early Music Festival), Radom^[91]

Romania

• Bucharest Early Music Festival, Bucharest^[92]

Russia

• Sankt Petersburg International Early Music Festival, Saint Petersburg^[93][94]

Serbia

• Belgrade International Early Music Festival^[95]

Slovakia

• "Dni starej hudby" - Days of early music, Bratislava.^[96]

Slovenia

• Radovljica Early Music Festival, Radovljica, Velesovo and Ljubljana. August.^[97]
• Seviqc Brežice – Festival Brezice, Brežice.^[98]

Spain

• Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona, Barcelona,^[99] since 1977.
• Festival de Música Antigua Iberoamericana "Domingo Marcos Duran". Cáceres.^[100]
• Festival de Música Antigua de Daroca, Zaragoza, since 1979. August.^[101]
• Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla, Seville.^[102][103]
• Festival de Música Antigua, Gijón.^[104]
• Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza. Úbeda and Baeza since 1997.^[105]
• Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada^[106]
• Música Antigua Aranjuez, Aranjuez.^[107]
• Musica Antigua Aracena, Aracena.^[108]
  • Trobadories d'en Guillem de Bergueda, Berga, Berguedà. Named after Guilhem de Berguedan. ran 2006-2007
  • Festival de Música Antigua de Sant Martí Vell, Gironès.
• Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Xàtiva, Valencia^[109]

Sweden

• Palladium Baroque. Malmö. Feb.^[110]
• Stockholm Early Music Festival. June.^[111]
• Drottningholm Palace Theatre^[112] August.
• Göteborg International Organ Academy. August.^[113]
• Söderköpings Gästabud. Medieval fayre in Söderköping. Sept.^[114]

Switzerland

• Early Music Festival - La Folia. Rougemont. May/June.^[115]
• Festival Alte Musik Zürich. March.^[116]
• Nox Illuminata, Basel, cf. Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
• Festival Bach de Lausanne. Oct/Nov.^[117][118]

United Kingdom

• Birmingham Early Music Festival.^[119]
• Brighton Early Music Festival, Oct/Nov.
• Leicester Early Music Festival. June.^[120]
• Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, London. May.^[121]
• York Early Music Festival, July.
• Greenwich Early Music Festival. Since 2001. Three day festival and instrument fair. November.^[122]
• London Handel Festival. Feb-April.^[123]
• Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival, Yorkshire, May.^[124]
• Spitalfields Festival, London. June.^[125]
• Cotswold Early Music Festival, Cirencester. June.^[126]
• Edinburgh International Festival, some early music events. Aug/Sept.

United States

• Amherst Early Music Festival. New London, Connecticut.^[127]
• Boston Early Music Festival.
• Bloomington Early Music Festival, Indiana ^[128]
• Indianapolis Early Music Festival. Since 1966.^[129]
• Washington Early Music Festival], Washington, D.C.^[130]
• New York Early Music Celebration, New York City. Since 2004. ^[131]
• Madison Early Music Festival, Madison, Wisconsin. Since 2000.^[132]
• Texas Toot - The Texas Early Music Festival. Workshops.^[133]
• Carmel Bach Festival, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.^[134]
• Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Santa Cruz, California.^[135]

References

External links

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