The Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht ("Utrecht Early Music Festival") is an annual
music festival that showcases and celebrates
early European art music. The ten-day festival takes place in the Dutch city of
Utrecht
Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...
, and begins in August. The programme includes concerts, activities, lectures, exhibitions, and a symposium.
The primary venue is
TivoliVredenburg, which opened in 2014. TivoliVredenburg is on the former site of an earlier music venue,
Muziekcentrum Vredenburg
Muziekcentrum Vredenburg was a music venue in Utrecht, Netherlands with a capacity of 5,000 people. It was designed by Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger. The venue hosted concerts by many famous artists, spanning many different genres. The old bu ...
. The Muziekcentrum was the festival's primary venue until it was demolished in 2008, to allow for new construction. The main concert hall of the Muziekcentrum was subsumed into the TivoliVredenburg.
Each year, the festival's organisers adopt a theme, which focuses on a particular place, time, and style in early music. The theme shapes not only the style and
musical repertoire of the performances, but also the
period instruments
In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic ...
used.
See also
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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 ...
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Historically informed performance
References
External links
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Music festivals established in 1982
Early music festivals
Classical music festivals in the Netherlands
Music festivals in the Netherlands
1982 establishments in the Netherlands