Laeiszhalle
Sign in to savethumbnail|275px|View of the Großer Saal (2014) The Laeiszhalle (), formerly Musikhalle, is a concert hall in the Neustadt of Hamburg, Germany, and home to the Hamburger Symphoniker and the Philharmoniker Hamburg. The hall is named after the German shipowning company F. Laeisz, founder of the concert venue. The Baroque Revival Laeiszhalle was planned by the architect Martin Haller and inaugurated at its location on the Hamburg Wallring on 4 June 1908. At that time, the Musikhalle was Germany's largest and most modern concert hall.
Key facts
- Venue.name
- Laeiszhalle
- Venue.former_names
- Musikhalle (1908–2005)
- Venue.image
- Laiszhalle in Hamburg-Neustadt.jpg
- Venue.image_size
- 250px
- Venue.location
- Johannes-Brahms-Platz 20, 20355 Hamburg, Germany
- Venue.type
- concert hall
- Venue.built
- 1904–08
- Venue.architect
- Martin Haller and Wilhelm Emil Meerwein
- Venue.capacity
- 2,025 (grand hall) 640 (recital hall)
- Venue.public_transit
- Gänsemarkt (200 m)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- concert hall
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Hamburg-Mitte
- Location
- Neustadt
- Image
- Hamburg Musikhalle 01 KMJ.jpg
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- Commons category
- Laeiszhalle
- architectural style
- baroque revival
- inception
- 1908-01-01
- architect
- Martin Haller
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thumbnail|275px|View of the Großer Saal (2014) The Laeiszhalle (), formerly Musikhalle, is a concert hall in the Neustadt of Hamburg, Germany, and home to the Hamburger Symphoniker and the Philharmoniker Hamburg. The hall is named after the German shipowning company F. Laeisz, founder of the concert venue. The Baroque Revival Laeiszhalle was planned by the architect Martin Haller and inaugurated at its location on the Hamburg Wallring on 4 June 1908. At that time, the Musikhalle was Germany's largest and most modern concert hall.
Composers such as Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith played and conducted their works in the Laeiszhalle. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz gave one of his first international performances in 1926; violinist Yehudi Menuhin gave a guest performance in 1930 at the age of twelve. Following World War II, which it survived intact, the Laeiszhalle experienced an intermezzo when the British occupying forces used the space temporarily as a broadcast studio for their radio station BFN. Maria Callas gave concerts in 1959 and 1962.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laeiszhalle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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