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Spohr Museum

Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft e.V.
Palais Bellevue
Schöne Aussicht 2
34117 Kassel

Telefon +49.561.7662528

Web: www.spohr-museum.de

Email: info@spohr-museum.de

Opening hours

Tuesday to Sunday
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

 

 

The Spohr Museum shows the life, work and impact of the famous musician and honorary citizen of Kassel, Louis Spohr. Personal furnishings and instruments illustrate his living and working conditions, while also providing references to his musical oeuvre. Recordings of music will make you sit up and take notice and open up further access to his work.

The first floor is dedicated to the life and work of Louis Spohr. On the 2nd floor, the museum presents further aspects of Kassel's musical history from Heinrich Schütz to punk and returns to Louis Spohr as a conductor in our room on the Kassel Theatre.

A variety of hands-on activities encourage visitors to engage with the contents of the exhibition.

Germany possesses musical traditions and legacies of extraordinary value: Handel, Schuetz and Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Wagner - to mention only a few names - are composers who are known and treasured throughout the world. Their work has played a significant role in shaping a unique musical landscape.

Numerous orchestras, choruses, ensembles, renowned music festivals and series, music houses with museums, public archives and libraries, but also private collections preserve their musical heritage.

It is necessary to revitalize this inestimable fund again and again and to develop it for the present. At the same time, an important role befits the houses combined in the consortium of music museums of Germany. In them we encounter the work of the musicians and composers who have extraordinarily enriched the cultural nation of Germany. However, beyond the individual portrait, beyond the procurement of individual oeuvres, the music museums also contribute overall to the maintenance of musical tradition. The present brochure underscores this aspect of the synoptic presentation and invites the reader on a journey into the musical history of Germany. I hope this tour guide will be actively used and receive a large response.

Bernd Neumann, Member of the Lower House of the German Parliament
Minister of State with the Federal Chancellor
Commissioner of the Federal Government for Culture and Media

Quoted from: Foreword to the brochure "Music Museums in Germany", 2007.