Brahms Festival
Fantastic
The 30th Brahms Festival is dedicated to the "Fantastic" from 06 to 15 May 2022. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of E.T.A. Hoffmann's death, lecturers and students of the MHL will jointly enchant the audience in around 30 concerts. They invite you to chamber music and moderated concerts at the MHL, the Villa Brahms and in churches and museums. The symphony concert features Florian Uhlig piano and the MHL Symphony Orchestra with works by Schumann (Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54), Mahler (Symphony No. 1 "Titan") and a world premiere by a composition student.
The detailed festival programme can be found on the following pages.
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.
