The Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe is a festival event for the works of the

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

composer

George Frideric Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, ...

. From 1977 to 1984 the

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is a theatre and opera house in Karlsruhe, Germany. It has existed in its present form and place at Ettlinger Tor since 1975. Achim Thorwald became the Intendant in summer 2002 and held that post until the en ...

organised the so-called ''Handel Days'', before the Baden town became the youngest of the three Handel festival venues in 1985. Since then, they have been held annually around 23 February, the composer's birthday. Initially, two, and in recent years one, own production of a stage work was presented. In addition, there are guest performances, orchestra and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

concerts. In 1984, a separate orchestra, the "Deutsche Händel-Solisten", was founded and is integrated into the festival programme. There is close cooperation between the Handel Festival and the Händelgesellschaft, founded in 1989 Karlsruhe e. V. and with the Internationale Händel-Akademie founded in 1986 with master classes for baroque performance practice. The management has been taken over by since 2014.Internationale Händel Festspiele Karlsruhe
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