The Composers Quarter Hamburg (german: Komponistenquartier Hamburg) is a gathering of six museums in the Peterstraße in

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- Neustadt,

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. The associated museums have one or two classical composers as a theme who were born or have lived in the city of Hamburg.Süddeutsche Zeitung
Hamburgs Komponistenquartier
6 July 2018 The museums are located in restored historical buildings. With the use of multimedia the lives and works of the composers are being cleared. Insight is being given why the composers may still matter in the current era. The quarter is represented by the association with the same name that was founded in 2015. The following list shows the member museums, the composers that are themed and the year of establishment:Hamburger Abentblatt

16 December 2014 * Brahms Museum,

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

, 1971 *

Telemann Museum The Telemann Museum is a museum in the Composers Quarter in Hamburg- Neustadt, Germany. It was founded in 2011 and is dedicated to the classical composer Georg Philipp Telemann. The museum is situated in an historical building in the Peterstraß ...

Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesh ...

, 2011 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Museum,

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and sec ...

, 2015 *

Johann Adolph Hasse Museum The Johann Adolph Hasse Museum is a museum in the Composers Quarter in Hamburg- Neustadt, Germany. The museum is dedicated to the life and work of the opera composer Johann Adolph Hasse. The presentation starts with his childhood and youth, Hasse ...

Johann Adolph Hasse Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a co ...

, 2015 *

Gustav Mahler Museum The Gustav Mahler Museum is a museum in Hamburg- Neustadt, Germany, dedicated to the memory of the classical composer Gustav Mahler. Established in a historic building in the Composers Quarter, it opened on 29 May 2018.Deutschland FunkPlatz für M ...

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

, 2018Deutschland Funk
Platz für Mahler und Mendelssohn-Geschwister
Dagmar Penzlin, 28 May 2018 *

Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum The Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum is a museum in the Composers Quarter in the Neustadt district of Hamburg, Germany. It is dedicated to the classical composers and siblings Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn. It opened on 29 May 2018. The museum fo ...

, Fanny and

Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...

, 2018

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