Brahms Festival
"Dialogues"
The 31st Brahms Festival at the MHL is all about "Dialogues". In 30 themed concerts around the clock, the aspects of dialogue in music will be explored - starting with the dialogue between work, performer and audience, to the dialogue between cultural spaces and epochs, to the dialogue between the arts and the world.
The festival programme can be found here.
Tickets between 5 and 20 Euro are available online and at the box office from March.
WE LOVE BRAHMS
The Brahms Festival of the MHL
Johannes Brahms counts among the outstanding composers of the 19th century. His music continues to fascinate to this day. Every year since 1992, the MHL has dedicated a very special festival to Brahms: Together, lecturers and students of the University of Music and Performing Arts have put the music of the Hamburg-born composer into manifold relationships: to friends and relatives, to role models and successors, to landscapes and cultures, to history and the present. With the Brahms Institute at the MHL, founded in 1991, the University has one of the largest collections on the life and work of the composer and his time. In the Brahms Festival, the scientific exploration of music is directly and in a special way united with artistic education. This makes the Brahms Festival what it is: unique in the German-speaking university landscape.
The mottos of past Brahms-Festivals
- 2022: Fantastic
- 2021: Spring Awakening
- 2020: All Ears! (cancelled)
- 2019: Abysses - Rays of Hope
- 2018: Foreigners
- 2017: Home
- 2016: Transformations
- 2015: All'ungarese
- 2014: Longing
- 2013: Fixed star Beethoven
- 2012: Brahmsiade
- 2011: Dedicated to Brahms
- 2010: Brahms - New Paths
- 2009: Brahms and the Music of the South
- 2008: Brahms and the Bourgeois Musical Culture
- 2007: Brahms and the Dialogue with History
- 2006: Inspiration - Fascination: Brahms, Mozart, Schumann
- 2005: Brahms and the Traditions of the North
- 2004: Brahms - Landscapes: Bohemia and Moravia
- 2003: Brahms - Contrasts
- 2002: Brahms - Friends and Elected Relatives
- 2001: Brahms and Vienna
- 2000: Hommage à Bach
Award-winning festival In 2006, the Brahms Festival and the Brahms Institute at the MHL were awarded the Brahms Prize of the Brahms Society Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1988, the prize, which is endowed with 10,000 Euros, has been awarded to personalities and institutions that have rendered outstanding services to the cultivation of Johannes Brahms' music and his artistic legacy.
