Early music festivals
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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.
Major festivals with some early music events:
Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance is an approach in the performance of music and theater. Within this approach, the performance adheres to state-of-the-art knowledge of the aesthetic criteria of the period in which the music or theatre work was conceived...
of later works. The increase in the number of music festivals specialising in Early Music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
is a reflection of the Early Music Revival
Early Music Revival
See Early music and Historically informed performance for a more detailed explanation of this topic.The general discussion of how to perform music from ancient or earlier times did not become an important subject of interest until the 19th century, when Europeans began looking to ancient culture...
of the 1970s and 1980s.
Many larger festivals such as that an Aix-en-Provence Festival
Aix-en-Provence Festival
The festival international d'art lyrique is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in the month of July. Devoted mainly to opera, it also includes concerts of orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo instrumental music.-Establishment:The...
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
- Resonanzen Konzerthaus, ViennaKonzerthaus, ViennaThe Konzerthaus in Vienna was opened 1913. It is situated in the third district just at the edge of the first district in Vienna. Since it was founded it has always tried to emphasise both tradition and innovative musical styles.In 1890 the first ideas for a Haus für Musikfeste came about...
. - Trigonale Festival der Alten Musik, Sankt Veit an der GlanSankt Veit an der GlanSankt Veit an der Glan is a town in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is the capital of a district with the same name.-Location:This town is a major point on the Glan River in the north of the Zollfeld Valley....
, CarinthiaCarinthia (province)Slovenian Carinthia or Slovene Carinthia, most commonly simply Carinthia is a traditional region in the north of Slovenia. It has no official status as an administrative unit within Slovenia, although the association with an informal province is still quite common.The region is referred to as...
. Sept. - Barocktage Stift Melk. May/June.
- InnsbruckInnsbruck- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...
er Festwochen der Alten MusikFestwochen der Alten MusikThe Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik is an early music festival founded in 1976.In the year 1963, to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Tyrolean apartenage to Austria, the Innsbruck musician Prof...
. July/August.
Belgium
- Festival van Vlaanderen, Musica Antiqua section. BrugesBrugesBruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....
, July/August - Laus PolyphoniaeLaus PolyphoniaeLaus Polyphoniae is the summer edition of the Festival van Vlaanderen -Antwerp. Since 1994 this early music and polyphony festival takes place in the last weeks of August.Every edition has its central theme or compositor...
- Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerp August - Festival van Vlaanderen, Gent. Sept/October.
- Festival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie
- Baroque Music at Chateau of ChimayChimayChimay a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On January 1, 2006, Chimay had a total population of 9,774. The total area is 197.10 km² which gives a population density of 50 inhabitants per km²...
, Hainaut.
Czech Republic
- Festival of early music at Český KrumlovČeský KrumlovČeský Krumlov is a small city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, best known for the fine architecture and art of the historic old town and Český Krumlov Castle...
- Letní slavnosti staré hudby (Summer festivities of early music), PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
. - Summer School of Early Music Prachatice
France
- Festival d'Ambronay, AmbronayAmbronayAmbronay is a commune in the Ain department in the Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is situated some north of Ambérieu-en-Bugey.-Abbey:...
. Since 1980. - Festival de BeauneFestival de BeauneThe Festival de Beaune: Festival international d’opéra baroque is a month-long annual summer festival of baroque opera in Beaune, France. It is notable for revivals of many baroque operas and performances of Mozart on original instruments....
July. - Festival de l'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud AbbeyFontevraud AbbeyFontevraud Abbey or Fontevrault Abbey is a religious building hosting a cultural centre since 1975, the Centre Culturel de l'Ouest, in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in Anjou, France. It was founded by the itinerant reforming preacher Robert of Arbrissel, who had just created a...
. Since 1975. - Musiques à la Chabotterie, VendéeVendéeThe Vendée is a department in the Pays-de-la-Loire region in west central France, on the Atlantic Ocean. The name Vendée is taken from the Vendée river which runs through the south-eastern part of the department.-History:...
. Since 1997. - MarseilleMarseilleMarseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
March. - NantesNantesNantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....
Spring. May/June - Musique ancienne, Maguelone, Villeneuve-lès-MagueloneVilleneuve-lès-MagueloneVilleneuve-lès-Maguelone is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France.-History:...
June. - Haut-Jura June.
- Aix-en-Provence FestivalAix-en-Provence FestivalThe festival international d'art lyrique is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in the month of July. Devoted mainly to opera, it also includes concerts of orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo instrumental music.-Establishment:The...
July. - Le Festival Renaissances, Bar-le-DucBar-le-DucBar-le-Duc, formerly known as Bar, is a commune in the Meuse département, of which it is the préfecture . The department is in Lorraine in north-eastern France-Geography:...
. July. - Musique ancienne de Callas, Callas, VarCallas, VarCallas is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.On a hill top very close to some of France's best wine growers' vineyards this ancient town looms over the valley below. It's a 45 minute drive from more famous coastal resort towns such as...
. July. - Musique et Mémoire, Faucogney-et-la-MerFaucogney-et-la-MerFaucogney-et-la-Mer is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Franche-Comté in eastern France.-References:*...
. July. - Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet. Le Thoronet AbbeyLe Thoronet AbbeyLe Thoronet Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century, now restored as a museum. It is sited between the towns of Draguignan and Brignoles in the Var Department of Provence, in southeast France...
- Festival Baroque de Tarentaise, AlbertvilleAlbertvilleAlbertville is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.The town is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics.-Geography:...
. August. - Le Festival International de Musique Ancienne de Simiane, Simiane-la-RotondeSimiane-la-RotondeSimiane-la-Rotonde is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.-Population:-References:*...
. August. - Festival de Sablé, Sablé-sur-SartheSablé-sur-SartheSablé-sur-Sarthe, commonly referred to as Sablé, is a commune in the Sarthe department in the Pays de la Loire region in west France.-Geography:...
. August - Academie Bach, Arques-la-BatailleArques-la-BatailleArques-la-Bataille is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:Arques is situated near the confluence of the rivers Eaulne, Varenne and Béthune, with the forest of Arques to the north-east...
. Aug. - MarseilleMarseilleMarseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
Autumn. Oct- Dec. - Saint-Michel en Thiérache, Saint-Michel, AisneSaint-Michel, AisneSaint-Michel is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France. It is also unofficially called Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache.-Population:-Personalities:...
. - Viola da gamba festival AsfeldAsfeldAsfeld is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.-Population:-References:*...
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Germany
- Arolser Barockfestspiele. Bad ArolsenBad ArolsenBad Arolsen is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district. From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont and then until 1929 as the capital of the Waldeck Free State...
. May. - Bach-Biennale WeimarWeimarWeimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
. Since 2008, biennual in July. - Festival alter Musik Bernau, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. - Festival Güldener Herbst, ThuringiaThuringiaThe Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
; in Weimar, Erfurt, Meiningen, Rudolstadt, Sondershausen, Eisenach, Kühndorf, Suhl and Molsdorf. October - Händelfestspiele
- Handel Festival, HalleHandel Festival, HalleThe Handel Festival in Halle is an international music festival, concentrating on the music of George Frideric Handel, in the composer's birthplace in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. The festival was founded in 1922 and grew into a center of Handel studies and performance in Europe...
(June) - Handel Festival, Göttingen (May)
- Handel Festival, Karlsruhe (Händelfestspiele KarlsruheKarlsruheThe City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
) (February)
- Handel Festival, Halle
- Magdeburger Telemann-FesttageMagdeburger Telemann-FesttageThe Magdeburg Telemann Festival has been held biennially in Magdeburg since 1990 in honour of Georg Philipp Telemann, usually around Telemann's birthday, the 14th of March....
, MagdeburgMagdeburgMagdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe.... - Tage Alter Musik, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
Oct. - Landshuter Hofmusiktage, Landshut
- Bachtage, PotsdamPotsdamPotsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....
- Bachfest LeipzigBachfest LeipzigThe Leipzig Bach Festival is a music festival which takes place annually in the city of Leipzig, where Bach worked as the Thomaskantor from 1723 until his death in 1750....
, LeipzigLeipzigLeipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
June - Montalbâne festival of Medieval music, Schloss Neuenburg, FreyburgFreyburg, GermanyFreyburg is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Unstrut, 9 km northwest of Hanseatic Naumburg, 63 km from Leipzig and 231 km from Berlin...
. June. - Musica Viva, Osnabrücker Land. Schloss Bad Iburg, Schloss Gesmold, Schloss Königsbrück, various churches and monasteries. September.
- Tage Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik.
- Tage Alter Musik Herne, HerneHerne, GermanyHerne is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen.- History :Like most other cities in the region Herne was a tiny village until the 19th century...
. November. - Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, RegensburgRegensburgRegensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...
, Whitsun - Sanssouci, PotsdamPotsdamPotsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....
June - Thüringer Bachwochen, ThuringiaThuringiaThe Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
. March/April. - Bayreuth Baroque Sept.
- Zeitfenster - Biennale Alter Musik, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. Biannual in April. - Internationales Heinrich-Schütz-Fest. Moves location, biannual.
- Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, ran from 2002-2006.
Italy
- Settimane barocche di Brescia, BresciaBresciaBrescia is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 197,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan...
. - Festival di Cremona Claudio Monteverdi, CremonaCremonaCremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...
. May. - FIMA - Festival di Musica Antica, UrbinoUrbinoUrbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482...
. July. - FTMA - Festival Toscano di Musica Antica. PisaPisaPisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...
. - Festival Galuppi, VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
. - Collegio Ghislieri di Pavia - Primavera Barocca. March–June. Since 2003.
- Musica Antica a Magnano, MagnanoMagnanoMagnano is a comune in the Province of Biella in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 km northeast of Turin and about 9 km south of Biella...
July/Sept. - Mousiké - Festival di musica antica del Mediterraneo, BariBariBari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
- Musica Antica in Sicilia, Associazione Antonio Il VersoAntonio il VersoAntonio Il Verso was an Italian composer.Il Verso was born at Piazza Armerina, and began his musical studies under the guidance of Pietro Vinci. He was active in Venice in the last years of the sixteenth century is given in Venice, then the seat of the Venetian school, where he refined his studies...
, PalermoPalermoPalermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
. Dec. - Piccola Accademia di MontisiPiccola Accademia di MontisiLocated in Tuscany, the Piccola Accademia di Montisi is a meeting place for musicians who have an interest in the harpsichord.- Background :In recent years, popular access to original instruments has diminished, with many institutions regarding their collections as historical artefacts to be seen...
, TuscanyTuscanyTuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
. Workshops for harpsichordists. July.
Major festivals with some early music events:
- Stresa Festival. StresaStresaStresa is a town and comune of about 5,000 inhabitants on the shores of the Lago Maggiore in the region of Piedmont, northern Italy; it is situated on the road and rail routes to the Simplon pass, about 90 km north-west of Milan. Since the early 20th century, the main source of income has been the...
, Lake MaggioreLake MaggioreLake Maggiore is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps. It is the second largest of Italy and largest of southern Switzerland. Lake Maggiore is the most westerly of the three great prealpine lakes of Italy, it extends for about 70 km between Locarno and Arona.The climate is mild...
. Some early music events. - Ravenna Festival. Some early music events. June/July.
- Festival Grandezze e Meraviglie, ModenaModenaModena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
. Sept/Nov. - Bolzano Festival. Some early music events.
- Alessandro Scarlatti Festival, PalermoPalermoPalermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
, Sicily, ran 1999-2002
Poland
- Maj z Muzyką Dawną - May with Early Music, Wrocław
- Jarosław Early Music Festival, Jarosław
- Misteria Paschalia, KrakówKrakówKraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
. Easter - Mikołaj Radomski (Early Music Festival), RadomRadomRadom is a city in central Poland with 223,397 inhabitants . It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship ; 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw.It is home to the biennial Radom Air Show, the largest and...
Slovenia
- Radovljica Early Music Festival, RadovljicaRadovljicaRadovljica is a town and a municipality in in the Upper Carniola region of northern Slovenia. The municipality has around 18,000 inhabitants and an area of 118 km²...
, VelesovoVelesovoVelesovo is a settlement in the Cerklje na Gorenjskem municipality in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.-External links:*...
and LjubljanaLjubljanaLjubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
. August. - Seviqc Brežice – Festival Brezice, BrežiceBrežiceBrežice is a city and municipality in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. The area was traditionally divided between Lower Styria and Lower Carniola...
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Spain
- Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona, BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, since 1977. - Festival de Música Antigua Iberoamericana "Domingo Marcos Duran". CáceresCáceres, SpainCáceres is the capital of the same name province, in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. , its population was 91,131 inhabitants. The municipio has a land area of 1,750.33 km², and is the largest in geographical extension in Spain....
. - Festival de Música Antigua de Daroca, Zaragoza, since 1979. August.
- Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla, SevilleSevilleSeville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
. - Festival de Música Antigua, GijónGijónGijón , officially Gijón / Xixón, is a coastal industrial city and a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain. Early mediaeval texts mention it as "Gigia". It was an important regional Roman city, although the area has been settled since earliest history...
. - Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza. ÚbedaÚbedaÚbeda is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with some 35,600 inhabitants. Both this city and the neighboring city of Baeza benefited from extensive patronage in the early 16th century resulting in the construction of a series of Renaissance style palaces...
and BaezaBaezaBaeza is a town of approximately 16,200 inhabitants in Andalusia, Spain, in the province of Jaén, perched on a cliff in the Loma de Baeza, a mountain range between the river Guadalquivir on the south and its tributary the Guadalimar on the north. It is chiefly known today as having many of the...
since 1997. - Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada
- Música Antigua Aranjuez, AranjuezAranjuezAranjuez is a town lying 48 km south of Madrid, in the southern part of the Community of Madrid. It is located at the confluence of the Tagus and Jarama rivers, 48 km from Toledo. As of 2009, it has a population of 54,055.-History:...
. - Musica Antigua Aracena, AracenaAracenaAracena is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, south-western Spain. , the city has a population of 7,612 inhabitants.-Main sights:...
. - Trobadories d'en Guillem de Bergueda, BergaBergaBerga is the capital of the comarca of Berguedà, in Catalonia, Spain.- History :Berga derives its name from the Bergistani, an Iberian tribe that lived in the area before the Roman conquest. The Bergistani were first subdued by Hannibal in 218 BC...
, BerguedàBerguedàBerguedà is a comarca in the interior of Catalonia, Spain, lying partly in the Pyrenees and partly in Catalonia's Depressió Central.-Geography:...
. Named after Guilhem de BerguedanGuilhem de BerguedanGuillem de Berguedà , or Guilhem de Berguedan in Occitan, was a Catalan troubadour and viscount of Berguedà. He was the most prolific Catalan poet of the twelfth century, though he composed in Occitan, and thirty-one of his poems survive...
. ran 2006-2007 - Festival de Música Antigua de Sant Martí Vell, GironèsGironèsGironès is a comarca in eastern Catalonia, Spain, bordering Selva, Baix Empordà, Alt Empordà, Pla de l'Estany and Garrotxa. , more than half of the comarca's 175,148 inhabitants live in the capital, Girona, which is also the capital of the province of Girona.-Municipalities:Populations are as of...
. - Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Xàtiva, Valencia
Sweden
- Palladium Baroque. MalmöMalmöMalmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
. Feb. - Stockholm Early Music Festival. June.
- Drottningholm Palace TheatreDrottningholm Palace TheatreThe Drottningholm Palace Theatre is an opera house located at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden, which has been described by Per-Erik Öhrn, the theatre’s former artistic director, as "the Swedish jewel in our European cultural heritage crown of centuries-old theatres".Currently the...
August. - Göteborg International Organ Academy. August.
- Söderköpings Gästabud. Medieval fayre in SöderköpingSöderköpingSöderköping is a locality and the seat of Söderköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 6,951 inhabitants in 2005. Söderköping is, despite its small population, for historical reasons normally still referred to as a city...
. Sept.
Switzerland
- Early Music Festival - La Folia. RougemontRougemont, SwitzerlandRougemont is a municipality in the Pays-d'Enhaut of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-History:Rougemont is first mentioned in 1115 as Rubeus Mons and Rogemot. The name of the village also appears in various forms in medieval chronicles: Rubeimontis, Rogemont, Rubeo monte, Rogo mons, and Rojomont...
. May/June. - Festival Alte Musik Zürich. March.
- Nox IlluminataNox IlluminataNox Illuminata is an annual international music festival established in Basel, Switzerland, since 2004. It combines traditional European early music with artists and repertoire from other genres and cultures, together with dance, theatre, and visual arts....
, BaselBaselBasel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, cf. Schola Cantorum BasiliensisSchola Cantorum BasiliensisSchola Cantorum Basiliensis is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, and focusing on early music and historically informed performance....
. - Festival Bach de Lausanne. Oct/Nov.
United Kingdom
- Birmingham Early Music Festival.
- Brighton Early Music FestivalBrighton Early Music FestivalBrighton Early Music Festival is an annual music festival which includes concerts, workshops and other educational events. The festival explores the connections between classical music, folk music and world music from the Middle Ages until the early 19th century...
, Oct/Nov. - Leicester Early Music Festival. June.
- Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. May. - York Early Music FestivalYork Early Music FestivalThe York Early Music Festival is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music from the 18th century and earlier. It was established in 1977, and takes place in York each July at various venues such as York Minster, the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall at the University of York and the...
, July. - Greenwich Early Music Festival. Since 2001. Three day festival and instrument fair. November.
- London Handel Festival. Feb-April.
- Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival, YorkshireYorkshireYorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
, May. - Spitalfields Festival, London. June.
- Cotswold Early Music Festival, CirencesterCirencesterCirencester is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, 93 miles west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswold District. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural College, the oldest agricultural...
. June. - Edinburgh International FestivalEdinburgh International FestivalThe Edinburgh International Festival is a festival of performing arts that takes place in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks from around the middle of August. By invitation from the Festival Director, the International Festival brings top class performers of music , theatre, opera...
, some early music events. Aug/Sept.
United States
- Amherst Early Music Festival. New London, ConnecticutNew London, ConnecticutNew London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States.It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, southeastern Connecticut....
. - Boston Early Music FestivalBoston Early Music FestivalThe Boston Early Music Festival is a music festival held every two years in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, for all people interested in historical music performance....
, biannual. - Bloomington Early Music Festival, IndianaIndianaIndiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
- Indianapolis Early Music Festival. Since 1966.
- Washington Early Music Festival], Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
- Madison Early Music Festival, Madison, WisconsinMadison, WisconsinMadison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
. Since 2000. - Texas Toot - The Texas Early Music Festival. Workshops.
- Carmel Bach Festival, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CaliforniaCarmel-by-the-Sea, CaliforniaCarmel-by-the-Sea, often called simply Carmel, is a small city in Monterey County, California, United States, founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1916. Situated on the Monterey Peninsula, the town is known for its natural scenery and rich artistic history...
. - Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Santa Cruz, CaliforniaSanta Cruz, CaliforniaSanta Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...
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