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Address
Rheinallee 1
65375 Oestrich-Winkel
Germany
http://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de
Info
Tel: +49 (0)67 23 91 77 0
Fax: +49 (0)67 23 91 77 19
info@rheingau-musik-festival.de
http://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de
Rheinallee 1
65375 Oestrich-Winkel
Deutschland
Administration
Tel: +49 (0)6723 91 77-0
Fax: +49 (0)6723 91 77-19
info@rheingau-musik-festival.de
http://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de
Rheinallee 1
65375 Oestrich-Winkel
Deutschland
Tickets
Tel: +49 (0)6723 / 60 21 70
Fax: +49 (0)6723 91 77-19
tickets@rheingau-musik-festival.de
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Postfach 1125
65367 Oestrich-Winkel
Deutschland
Press
Tel: +49 (0)6723 91 77-15
Fax: +49 (0)6723 91 77-19
siemon@rheingau-musik-festival.de
http://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de
Rheinallee 1
65375 Oestrich-Winkel
Deutschland
Rheingau Musik Festival Konzertgesellschaft mbH
Each year since 1988, the Rheingau Musik Festival turns the whole region from Wiesbaden to Rüdesheim into a concert stage of international renown. Offering about 140 concerts in more than 40 venues - monasteries, churches, and castles - it is the largest festival of its kind in Germany. Classical music is the main focus of the programme, but cabaret, lectures, and jazz have a firm position in the concert series as well. The harmony of international flair and regional charm constitute the Rheingau Musik Festivals's special attractivity.
This festival has been an EFA member since 1997.
Festival Programme
Each EFA member manages its own Calendar. In case there is no programme availabable for this year, please visit the festival's own website.
- programme 2011Programme card 2011 (pdf)
- programme 2010Programme card 2010 (pdf)
- programme 2009Programme card 2009 (pdf)
- programme 2008Programme card 2008 (pdf)
- programme 2007Programme card 2007 (pdf)
History
The unique setting of the Rheingau between Wiesbaden and Rüdesheim with its vineyards and historical buildings has been since 1998 the scenery for the Rheingau Musik Festival. Beginning with 18 concerts at five venues, a small group of music enthusiasts around Michael Herrmann, the present Chief Executive Officer and Artistic Director, turned their dream of a symbiosis of landscape, music, and culture into reality. Success was on their side from the beginning. Today, about 140 events, spread over 10 weeks and 40 different venues transform the Rheingau every summer into a huge concert stage. The festival attracts each year more than 100.000 people to the region.
The festival's funding concept is remarkable as well. It is the only festival of this scale which is financed with nearly no public subsidies. This is facilitated by means of an intricate sponsoring scheme. The main sponsor and the three co-sponsors are joined by a great number of event sponsors, who support a concert of their choice. Nearly one half of the budget is financed by the sponsors, the other half is covered by ticket sales.
Classical music is in the focus of the festival. Well-reputed artists such as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Alfred Brendel, the Alban Berg Quartet, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti or Mstislaw Rostropowitsch, orchestras and chamber music ensembles of world-wide renown have deposited their calling cards in the Rheingau in recent years. On the other hand, cabaret, lectures, and jazz, musical cruises and culinary events have a firm position on the programme. It is the split between international highlights and a distinct regional reference that makes the Rheingau Musik Festival so unique.
The Rheingau Musik Festival is under the patronage of the minister-president of Hessen, Volker Bouffier.
