"Intoxication"
The MHL's 32nd Brahms Festival from 3 to 12 May 2024 is all about intoxication. In over 30 themed concerts around the clock, MHL lecturers and students will shed light on its various forms and aspects: From creative intoxication to the many different forms of intoxication. On the programme: symphony concerts, concerts for pupils and chamber music. The festival programme will soon be available here.
The Brahms Festival of the MHL
Johannes Brahms counts among the outstanding composers of the 19th century. His music continues to fascinate to this day. Every year since 1992, the MHL has dedicated a very special festival to Brahms: Together, lecturers and students of the University of Music and Performing Arts have put the music of the Hamburg-born composer into manifold relationships: to friends and relatives, to role models and successors, to landscapes and cultures, to history and the present. With the Brahms Institute at the MHL, founded in 1991, the University has one of the largest collections on the life and work of the composer and his time. In the Brahms Festival, the scientific exploration of music is directly and in a special way united with artistic education. This makes the Brahms Festival what it is: unique in the German-speaking university landscape.
The mottos of past Brahms-Festivals
Award-winning festival In 2006, the Brahms Festival and the Brahms Institute at the MHL were awarded the Brahms Prize of the Brahms Society Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1988, the prize, which is endowed with 10,000 Euros, has been awarded to personalities and institutions that have rendered outstanding services to the cultivation of Johannes Brahms' music and his artistic legacy.
