The Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik (Bludenzer Days of Contemporary Music) is an international festival of

contemporary music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial ...

that has been taking place in

Bludenz Bludenz (; Alemannic: ''Bludaz'') is a town in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is the administrative seat of the Bludenz District, which encompasses about half of the Vorarlberg's territory. Geography The town is located on the Il ...

Vorarlberg Vorarlberg ( , ; gsw, label=Vorarlbergisch, Vorarlbearg, , or ) is the westernmost States of Austria, state () of Austria. It has the second-smallest geographical area after Vienna and, although it also has the second-smallest population, it is ...

(Austria) since 1988. The aim of the festival is "to make contemporary music audible in Bludenz".

History

In its first 30 years, more than 200 world premieres have taken place as part of the festival. Georg Friedrich Haas was the first artistic director, followed by Wolfram Schurig and

Alexander Moosbrugger Alexander Moosbrugger (born 21 August 1972 in Bregenzerwald) is an Austrian Composer, living since 2001 in Berlin. Biography Alexander Moosbrugger completed studies at the Vorarlberger Landeskonservatorium (organ and harpsichord), at the Univer ...

. The Italian composer has been responsible for the program since 2014. Due to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

, the 2020 edition of the festival had to be cancelled.

References

External links

* * Festivals in Vorarlberg Classical music festivals in Austria {{music-festival-stub