Early music festivals is a generic term for musical festivals focused on music before

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, or including historically informed performance of later works. The increase in the number of music festivals specializing in early music is a reflection of the

early music revival :''See Historically informed performance for a more detailed explanation of this topic.'' The general discussion of how to perform music from ancient or earlier times did not become an important subject of interest until the 19th century, when E ...

of the 1970s and 1980s. Many larger festivals such as that an

Aix-en-Provence Festival The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in July. Devoted mainly to opera, it also includes concerts of orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo instrumental ...

also include early music sections, as do, inevitably, festivals of sacred music; such as the Festival de Música Sacra do Baixo Alentejo, in

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. Although most early music festivals are centered on commercial performance, many include also workshops. This articles includes an incomplete list of early music festivals, which may overlap with topics such as

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, list of maritime music festivals,

list of opera festivals This is an inclusive list of opera festivals and summer opera seasons, and music festivals which have opera productions. This list may have some overlap with list of early music festivals. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition, ...

, and in some cases

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List of festivals by country

Note this list includes festivals that are annual unless otherwise listed. Festivals which were notable, producing radio-broadcasts and recordings, but now defunct, are listed with an indent at the end of each country listing; for example Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, Germany. Festival Opera Barocca

Australia

* Brisbane Baroque - previously Hobart Baroque, ran until 2016 *MIFOH Melbourne International Festival of Organ and Harpsichord, founded by Sergio di Pieri in 1971 and run by an entirely voluntary group until the last concert in 2007. A further series of annual concerts running on the same framework (of concerts, visiting distinguished overseas musicians, and masterclasses) was operated by Professor John Griffiths from 2007-2010, a long time participant in MIFOH

Austria

* Resonanzen

Konzerthaus, Vienna The Konzerthaus is a concert hall located in Vienna, Austria, which opened in 1913. It is situated in the third district just at the edge of the first district in Vienna. Since it was founded it has always tried to emphasise both traditional and ...

. * Trigonale Festival der Alten Musik, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia. Sept. * Internationale Barocktage, Stift Melk. May/June. * Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. July/August.
Donaufestwochen im Strudengau
July/August

Bolivia

*Festival de Chiquitos

Belgium

* Festival van Vlaanderen, section Musica Antiqua Bruges, July/August * Laus Polyphoniae - Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerp August * Festival van Vlaanderen, Gent. Sept/October. * Festival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie * Baroque Music at Chateau of Chimay, Hainaut. * Festival Les Nuits de Septembre - Festival de Wallonie, Liège

Brazil

* Festival de música colonial brasileira e música antiga. July. * Festival de Música Coral Renascentista Gil de Roca Sales.

Canada

* Montreal Baroque. June. * Vancouver Early Music Festival. August. * Pacific Baroque Festival, Victoria, B.C., February/March * Lameque International Baroque Music Festival, July

Croatia

* Rovigno Baroque Music Festival * Varaždin Baroque Evenings (Varaždinske barokne večeri), Baroque Festival since 1971. * Dubrovnik Summer Festival (Dubrovačke ljetne igre), since 1950. * Korkyra Baroque Festival (Korčulanski barokni festival). * Musical Evenings in St Donat (Glazbene večeri u sv. Donatu), since 1960.

Czech Republic

* Festival of early music at

Český Krumlov Český Krumlov (; german: Krumau, , or ''Böhmisch Krumau'') is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. The historic centre with the Český Krumlov Castle complex is protected by law as an urban monument reservation, and sin ...

* Letní slavnosti staré hudby (Summer festivities of early music),

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. * Opera Barocca,

. * Summer School of Early Music Prachatice

Denmark

* Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival. October–November.

Finland

BRQ Vantaa
August. * Sastamala Gregoriana,

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. July. Since 1995.

France

* Festival d'Ambronay,

Ambronay Ambronay () is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. Geography The commune of Ambronay is at the centre of a semicircle of mountains at the foot of the westernmost foothills of the Jura Mountain ...

. Since 1980. *

Festival de Beaune The Festival de Beaune: ''Festival international d’opéra baroque'' is a month-long annual summer festival of baroque opera in Beaune, France. It is notable for revivals of many baroque operas and performances of Mozart on original instruments H ...

July. * Festival de l'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud,

Fontevraud Abbey The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: ''abbaye de Fontevraud'') was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in the former French duchy of Anjou. It was founded in 1101 by the itinerant preache ...

. Since 1975. * Festival de Musique Ancienne de Saint Sevin,

Saint Sevin In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orth ...

. August. * Musiques à la Chabotterie,

Vendée Vendée (; br, Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.

. Since 1997. *

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...

March. * Nantes Spring. May/June * Musique ancienne, Maguelone,

Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone ( Occitan: ''Vilanòva de Magalona'') is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in Southern France. Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone station has rail connections to Narbonne, Montpellier and Avignon. Et ...

June. * Haut-Jura June. *

July. * Le Festival Renaissances,

Bar-le-Duc Bar-le-Duc (), formerly known as Bar, is a Communes of France, commune in the Meuse (department), Meuse Departments of France, département, of which it is the capital. The department is in Grand Est in northeastern France. The lower, more moder ...

. July. * Musique ancienne de Callas, Callas, Var. July. * Musique et Mémoire, Faucogney-et-la-Mer. July. * Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet. Le Thoronet Abbey * Festival de musique de Conques. July–August. * Festival Baroque de Tarentaise,

Albertville Albertville (; Arpitan: ''Arbèrtvile'') is a subprefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. It is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. In 2018, the commune had ...

. August. * Le Festival International de Musique Ancienne de Simiane,

Simiane-la-Rotonde Simiane-la-Rotonde (; oc, Sumiana) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Population Geography The commune is traversed by the river Calavon. See also *Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence depart ...

. August. * Festival de Sablé,

Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sablé-sur-Sarthe (, literally ''Sablé on Sarthe''), commonly referred to as Sablé, is a commune in the Sarthe department, in the Pays de la Loire region, western France. It is about 50 km northeast of Angers. Population Geography The ...

. August * Academie Bach, Arques-la-Bataille. Aug. *

Festival de musique de La Chaise-Dieu The La Chaise-Dieu Music Festival is a classical music festival that takes place every year at the end of August. It is essentially devoted to sacred music and takes place mainly in the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. In 2016, the Festival celebrated it ...

Auvergne Auvergne (; ; oc, label= Occitan, Auvèrnhe or ) is a former administrative region in central France, comprising the four departments of Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal and Haute-Loire. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Au ...

. Aug-Sept. *Festival Les Riches Heures de

La Réole La Réole (; oc, La Rèula) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Geography La Réole is located on the right bank of the Garonne, southeast of Bordeaux by rail. La Réole station has rail conne ...

. Septembre * Festival baroque de

Pontoise Pontoise () is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise. Administration Pontoise is the official ''préfecture'' (capital) of the Val-d'Oise ''dép ...

. Sept-Oct. * Festival de Lanvellec. Oct. *

Autumn. October- December * Festival Paris Baroque,

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

. November-December * Saint-Michel en Thiérache,

Saint-Michel, Aisne Saint-Michel () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is also unofficially called Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache. Population Personalities * French Revolution leader Antoine Joseph Santerre, whose famil ...

. * Viola da gamba festival

Asfeld Asfeld () is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France, formerly named Ecry or Ecri. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Asfeldois''. The commune has been awarded one flower by the ''Nationa ...

. * Orléans Bach Festival

Germany

Bachwoche Ansbach The Bachwoche Ansbach (Ansbach Bach Week) is a biennial music festival in Ansbach, Germany, dedicated to the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach, held since 1947. The main venues are the Orangerie and the great hall of the palace Residenz Ansb ...

Ansbach Ansbach (; ; East Franconian: ''Anschba'') is a city in the German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the river Fränkische Rezat, ...

summer. * Arolser Barockfestspiele.

Bad Arolsen Bad Arolsen (, until 1997 Arolsen, ''Bad'' being the German name for ''Spa'') is a small town in northern Hesse, Germany, in Waldeck-Frankenberg district. From 1655 until 1918 it served as the residence town of the Princes of Waldeck-Pyrmont and ...

. May. * Bach-Biennale

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

. Since 2008, biennial in July. * Festival alter Musik Bernau,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

. * Festival Güldener Herbst,

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and lar ...

; in Weimar, Erfurt, Meiningen, Rudolstadt, Sondershausen, Eisenach, Kühndorf, Suhl and Molsdorf. October * Händelfestspiele **

Handel Festival, Halle The Handel Festival (in German: Händel-Festspiele) in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, is an international music festival concentrating on the music of George Frideric Handel in the composer's birthplace. It was founded in 1922 and it grew into ...

(June) ** Handel Festival, Göttingen (May) **

Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe The Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe is a festival event for the works of the baroque composer George Frideric Handel. From 1977 to 1984 the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe organised the so-called ''Handel Days'', before the Baden town became th ...

(February) *

Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage The Magdeburg Telemann Festival, first held in , has been held biennially in Magdeburg since in honour of Georg Philipp Telemann, usually around Telemann's birthday, the 14th of March. The first Magdeburg Telemann Festival days were organized 1 ...

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebu ...

* Tage Alter Musik,

Oct. * Landshuter Hofmusiktage, Landshut * Bachtage,

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream o ...

Bachfest Leipzig The Bachfest Leipzig (Leipzig Bach Festival) is a music festival which takes place annually, in the month of June, in the city of Leipzig, where J. S. Bach worked as the Thomaskantor from 1723 until his death in 1750. The current artistic directo ...

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

. June * Montalbâne festival of Medieval music, Schloss Neuenburg, Freyburg. June. * Musica Viva,

Osnabrück Land Osnabrück Land (german: Osnabrücker Land) is a region in southwest Lower Saxony in Germany, which extends into the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Its centre is the city of Osnabrück. The region is dominated by the Teutoburg Forest and the R ...

. Schloss Bad Iburg, Schloss Gesmold, Schloss Königsbrück, various churches and monasteries. September. * Tage Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik. * Tage Alter Musik Herne, Herne. November. * , Regensburg, Whitsun * Tage Alter Musik im Saarland (TAMiS), Saarbrücken, March/April * Sanssouci,

June * Thüringer Bachwochen,

. March/April. * Bayreuth Baroque Sept. * Zeitfenster - Biennale Alter Musik,

. Biannual in April. * Internationales Heinrich-Schütz-Fest. Moves location, biannual. ** Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, ran from 2002-2006.

Ireland

East Cork Early Music Festival East Cork Early Music Festival is an Irish arts festival that is intended to "promote the performance and appreciation" of music written before 1750 on period instruments. Formed in 2003 under the artistic direction of Sarah Cunningham, the festiva ...

* Galway Early Music Festival
Sligo Festival of Baroque Music

Israel

* Bach in Jerusalem Festival

Italy

* Grandezze & Meraviglie, Festival Musicale Estense, Modena. September/November Since 1998 *Settimane barocche di Brescia,

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...

. * Festival di Cremona Claudio Monteverdi, Cremona. May. * FIMA - Festival di Musica Antica,

Urbino Urbino ( ; ; Romagnol: ''Urbìn'') is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of F ...

. July. * FTMA - Festival Toscano di Musica Antica. Pisa. * Festival Galuppi,

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...

. * Collegio Ghislieri di Pavia - Primavera Barocca. March–June. Since 2003. * Musica Antica a Magnano,

Magnano Magnano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Biella in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about south of Biella. Magnano borders the following municipalities: Bollengo, Cerrione, Palazzo Canavese, ...

July/Sept. * Mousiké - Festival di musica antica del Mediterraneo, Bari * Musica Antica in Sicilia, Associazione '' Antonio il Verso'', Palermo. December * Piccola Accademia di Montisi,

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. Workshops for harpsichordists. July. * Garda Trentino International Early Music Weeks,

Riva del Garda Riva del Garda (''Rìva'' in local dialect) is a town and ''comune'' in the northern Italian province of Trento of the Trentino Alto Adige region. It is also known simply as ''Riva'' and is located at the northern tip of Lake Garda. History Ri ...

. Major festivals with some early music events: * Stresa Festival.

Stresa Stresa is a town and ''comune'' of about 4,600 residents on the shores of Lake Maggiore in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, about northwest of Milan. It is situated on road and rail routes to the Simp ...

Lake Maggiore Lake Maggiore (, ; it, Lago Maggiore ; lmo, label=Western Lombard, Lagh Maggior; pms, Lagh Magior; literally 'Greater Lake') or Verbano (; la, Lacus Verbanus) is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps. It is the second largest l ...

. Some early music events. * Ravenna Festival. Some early music events. June/July. * Bolzano Festival. Some early music events. ** Alessandro Scarlatti Festival, Palermo, Sicily, ran 1999-2002

Hungary

* Early Music Festival at

Palace of Arts (Budapest) A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome which ...

. Since 2015, first quarter of the year.
Early Music Days
at palace of Eszterhaza - Fertőd June/July, since 1984

Latvia

* Senās mūzikas festivāls, every July in the

Rundāle Palace Rundāle Palace ( lv, Rundāles pils; german: Schloss Ruhental, formerly Ruhenthal or Ruhendahl) is one of the two major baroque palaces built for the Dukes of Courland in what is now Latvia, the other being Jelgava Palace. The palace was built i ...

. * Baroka mūzikas dienas Rēzeknē (Baroque Music Days Rezekne), every September 2005 – 2016 in Rezekne city, Latgale region and Riga.

Lithuania

Banchetto Musicale
early music festival, every September in Vilnius, since 1989

Malta

Valletta International Baroque Festival The Valletta International Baroque Festival is one of the largest music festivals of Malta. It was founded by its present Artistic Director Kenneth Zammit Tabona in 2013. The programmatic focus is on baroque and early music. History Since its e ...

Netherlands

* Early Music Festival, Utrecht.
Geelvinck Early Piano Festival

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

Norway

* Festival,

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

. * Festival, Larvik.
St.Olav Festival

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

br>Ringve International Summer Course

Poland

* ANNUM festival

Tarnowskie Góry Tarnowskie Góry (German: ''Tarnowitz''; szl, Tarnowske Gōry) is a town in Silesia, southern Poland, located in the Silesian Highlands near Katowice. On the south it borders the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a megalopolis, the greater Si ...

, Chorzów * Maj z Muzyką Dawną - May with Early Music,

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

* Jarosław Early Music Festival,

Jarosław Jarosław (; uk, Ярослав, Yaroslav, ; yi, יאַרעסלאָוו, Yareslov; german: Jaroslau) is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 38,970 inhabitants, as of 30 June 2014. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previ ...

* Misteria Paschalia,

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

. Easter *

Mikołaj Radomski Mikołaj is the Polish cognate of given name Nicholas, used both as a given name and a surname. It may refer to people: In Polish (or Polish-Lithuanian) nobility: * Mikołaj Firlej (died 1526), Polish nobleman, Hetman, diplomat, and expert of so ...

(Early Music Festival),

Radom Radom is a city in east-central Poland, located approximately south of the capital, Warsaw. It is situated on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the seat of a separate Radom Voivodeship (1975� ...

* International Festival

Wratislavia Cantans The Andrzej Markowski International Festival Wratislavia Cantans is a music festival held every September in Wrocław and Lower Silesia, Poland, organized by the Witold Lutosławski National Forum of Music in Wrocław. The name ''Wratislavia Cantan ...

Forum Musicum

Early Music Academy

Portugal

*Encontros de Música Antiga de Loulé - Francisco Rosado, EMAL-FR, every October since 1999,

Loulé Loulé () is a city and municipality in the region of Algarve, district of Faro, Portugal. In 2011, the population of the entire municipality was 70,622 inhabitants, in an area of approximately . The municipality has two principal cities: Loulé ...

*West Coast Early Music Festival, Oeiras, Lisbon *SIMA - Série ibérica de Música Antiga, Castelo Branco *Festival Internacional de Música Barroca de Faro, FIMBF, Faro *Fora do Lugar - Early Music(s) International Festival,

Idanha-a-Nova Idanha-a-Nova () is a town and surrounding municipality in the district of Castelo Branco, in east-central Portugal. A border municipality with Spain, the population of the municipality in 2011 was 9,716, in an area of 1416.34 km2, making it ...

(UNESCO Creative City of Music)

Romania

* Bucharest Early Music Festival,

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

* Miercurea Ciuc Early Music Festival,

Miercurea Ciuc Miercurea Ciuc (; hu, Csíkszereda, ; german: Szeklerburg) is the county seat of Harghita County, Romania. It lies in the Székely Land, a mainly Hungarian-speaking ethno-cultural region in eastern Transylvania, and is situated in the Olt Ri ...

Russia

* Sankt Petersburg International Early Music Festival,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Serbia

* Belgrade Early Music Festival

Slovakia

* "Dni starej hudby" - Days of early music, Bratislava.

Slovenia

* Radovljica Early Music Festival,

Radovljica Radovljica (; german: Radmannsdorf) is a town in the Upper Carniola region of northern Slovenia. It is the administrative seat of the Municipality of Radovljica. Geography The town is located on the southern slope of the Karawanks mountain ra ...

Velesovo Velesovo (; german: Michelstetten''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 58.) is a settlement in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in ...

and

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the are ...

. August. * Seviqc Brežice – Festival Brezice,

Brežice Brežice (; german: Rann ) is a town in eastern Slovenia in the Lower Sava Valley, near the Croatian border. It is the seat of the Municipality of Brežice. It lies in the center of the Brežice Plain ( sl, Brežiško polje), which is part of the ...

Spain

* Festival Jordi Savall,

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the nort ...

, since 2021. * Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona,

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

, since 1977. * Festival de Música Antigua Iberoamericana " Domingo Marcos Durán". Cáceres. * Festival de Música Antigua de Daroca,

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

, since 1979. August. * Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla,

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

. * Festival de Música Antigua,

Gijón Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and municipality by population in the autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea in the Bay of Biscay, in the cent ...

. * Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza.

Úbeda Úbeda (; from Iberian ''Ibiut'') is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with 34,733 (data 2017) inhabitants. Both this city and the neighbouring city of Baeza benefited from extensive patronage in the ...

and Baeza since 1997. * Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada * Música Antigua Aranjuez,

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. * Musica Antigua Aracena,

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. ** Trobadories d'en Guillem de Bergueda, Berga, Berguedà. Named after Guilhem de Berguedan. ran 2006-2007 ** Festival de Música Antigua de Sant Martí Vell, Gironès. * Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Xàtiva, Valencia

Sweden

* Drottningholm Palace Theatre August. * Göteborg International Organ Academy. August. * NoMeMus. Nordic festival for Medieval music. During Söderköpings Gästabud. August/September. * Palladium Baroque. Malmö. Feb. * Stockholm Early Music Festival. The largest international event for historical music in the Nordic countries. First week in June since 2002. * Söderköpings Gästabud. Medieval fayre in Söderköping. August/September. * Trollhättans TIDIG MUSIK-dagar. Early music days in Trollhättan. May.

Switzerland

* Early Music Festival - La Folia. Rougemont, Switzerland, Rougemont. May/June. * Festival Alte Musik Zürich. March. * Nox Illuminata, Basel, cf. Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. * Festival Bach de Lausanne. Oct/Nov. * Festival Musikdorf Ernen. Ernen, Switzerland. July. * Bachwochen Thun, Thun, August/September * Cantar di Pietre. Lugano, Switzerland. October–November.

United Kingdom

* Birmingham Early Music Festival. * Brighton Early Music Festival, Oct/Nov. * English Bach Festival (ran from 1963 to 2009) * Leicester Early Music Festival. June. * Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, London. May. * York Early Music Festival, July. *London International Festival of Early Music, The London International Festival of Early Music. Three-day festival and instrument fair. November. * London Handel Festival. Feb-April. * Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival, Yorkshire, May. * Spitalfields Festival, London. June. * Cotswold Early Music Festival, Cirencester. June. * Edinburgh International Festival, some early music events. Aug/Sept.

United States

* American Bach Soloists Festival & Academy. San Francisco, California. Since 2010. * Amherst Early Music Festival. New London, Connecticut.
Aston Magna Music Festival
Great Barrington, Massachusetts. *Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival *Carmel Bach Festival *English Bach Festival * Bloomington Early Music Festival, Indiana *Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, presented by The San Francisco Early Music Society. Since 1990. * Boston Early Music Festival.
Boulder Bach Festival
Boulder, Colorado * Carmel Bach Festival, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. * Indianapolis Early Music Festival, Indiana. Since 1966. * Houston Early Music Festival, Houston, Texas. * Madison Early Music Festival, Madison, Wisconsin. Since 2000. * New York Early Music Celebration, New York City. Since 2004. * Piccolo Spoleto Festival Early Music Series, Charleston, South Carolina. * Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Santa Cruz, California. * Texas Toot - The Texas Early Music Festival. Workshops. * Twin Cities Early Music Festival and Baroque Instrumental Program. Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Since 2014. * Washington Early Music Festival], Washington, D.C.Washington Early Music Festival

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