Laeiszhalle Musikhalle Hamburg
Laeiszhalle Musikhalle Hamburg is a concert hall in Hamburg’s Neustadt district, with Baroque Revival architecture and wheelchair access. Martin Haller designed the building, inaugurated in 1908.
Two performance spaces give the venue a setting suited to classical and early Romantic repertoire. The Hamburger Symphoniker and Philharmoniker Hamburg perform here, continuing a history that includes Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky. Vladimir Horowitz gave an early international performance there in 1926, while twelve-year-old Yehudi Menuhin appeared as a guest in 1930. After the Second World War, British occupying forces used the hall as a BFN radio studio, before jazz and pop expanded its programme in the 1960s.
Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and Elton John later brought different sounds into these rooms. A Rudolf von Beckerath organ, built in 1950, has undergone several refurbishments, while plans call for the original Walcker organ to be reconstructed.
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