Bavaria East and South

birthplace of Max Reger, °1873  -  exhibition in town hall, diagonally across (nr 7)

collection of documents and memorabilia about Reger and his friend and first teacher Lindner

House of the Reger family from 1878  -  at nr. 13 (Jacobuskirche) first grave stone of Reger, † 1916 in Jena  (his permanent grave is in Munich)

favourite pub of Reger (notorious bulk consumer)

Reger monument

birthplace of Christoph Willibald Gluck, °1714  -  on opposite side Gluck monument.

Gluck monument

birthplace of the opera composer Simon Mayr, °1763, teacher of Donizetti

Simon Mayer studied here.

Museum established in Munich in 1879, now in the Neues Schloß. Department of military music

well preserved organ from 1740, 1 manual and pull-down pedal, 5 stops

organ prospect by J. Konrad Brandenstein, 1725

organ by J. Konrad Brandenstein, 1729, 1 manual, 13 stops

visit by Mozart, 25.IX.1790 - visit by Haydn and Elssner, 22.I.1794, on their way to London

excellent chuch music during Sunday high mass (9:00 p.m.) by Regensburger Domspatzen

Choir school of the Domspatzen

Established in 1874 by F.X. Haberl. The most distinguished training institute of Roman Catholic church music outside Rome. Today Hochschule für Kirchenmusik und Musikpädagogik.

monumental grave of Carl Proske, †1861, advocate and editor of a cappellapolyphony when it was still unpopular . He lived at Kapellengasse 6.

Vast fund of church music manuscripts and prints, collected by Proske, Haberl, Witt a.o.

Repertoire of court chapel and -theatre in famous library Thurn & Taxis. St. Rupert: baptism church of Friedrich Burgmüller, °1806

the astronomer Johannes Kepler died here in 1630; museum (cf. Weil der Stadt > d05) - Kepler monument (round temple) at Ernst-Reuter-Platz.

Theatre built in 1852 - opera, operetta, musical

The imposing Walhalla was inaugurated in 1842 as a counterpart of the Parisian Pantheon. The first busts  devoted to composers refer to Händel, Gluck, Haydn ('Heyden') and Mozart. Later on continued by Beethoven (1866), Wagner (1913), Bach (1916), Schubert (1928), Bruckner (1937, unveiled by Hitler!), Reger (1948), R. Strauss (1973), Weber (1978). Plaques of Hildegard von Bingen and the Minnesänger  Vogelweide and Wolfram. Interesting history of appreciations! Where are Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms? - Visit is rewarding.

In this street the theatre director Emanuel Schikaneder was born in 1751; plaque.

Agnes-Bernauer-Kapelle - the story of A.B., accused of witchcraft (15th century), is told in Orff's opera Die Bernauerin

organ by Caspar König (?), 1715, 1 manual, 10 stops

nice double organ front from the 18th century, maker unknown

In the 16th century Paul Hofheimer and Ludwig Senfl were active in Passau  -  In 1794 Haydn attended a performance of his Sieben letzte Worte in a vocal arrangement by the Passau musician Joseph Friebert (Gymnasium).

Georg Muffat 1690-†1704; his grave and that of his successor Anton Aufschnaiter (†1742) in the cloisters.
The presumedly biggest church organ in the world was built in 1928 by Steinmeyer, using the three existing fronts from 1688 and 1718, and further extended in 1980 and 1993. Today there are five organ bodies, played from a central console with five manuals. In total 233 stops, 17.774 pipes.

former court theatre from 1783, restored in 1961 - small (350 seats) but exquisite

the Mozart family probably stayed in 'zum grauen Hasen' 20-26.IX.1762

Franz Lehár stayed here in 1901, composing Wiener Frauen

Gustav Mahler stayed in this former 'Schiessberglehen' with his sister Justine and Natalie Bauer-Lechner, summer 1892.  

birthplace of Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, °1729

wedding of Richard Strauss and Pauline de Ahma on 10.IX.1894

house of the de Ahma family - Richard Strauss stayed here regularly 1894-1907,  composing several works incl. Salome

Michael Haydn composed the Chiemsee-Messe, devoted to St. Ursula, in 1793 for the benedictine nuns of the monastery on the isle of Frauenchiemsee.

Max Reger stayed in this house (today a flower shop) in 1906

Monastery since the 10th century - rich musical life until 1803 - connections with the composer Max Keller and Salzburg musicians as Adlgasser, Eberlin, M. Haydn and the Mozarts - several visits by Mozart, composition of two responsories (KV. 35 and 72)  -  Organ front by Egedacher and original console from the 1740s (Mozart!).

The young Mozart played the organ on 11.VI.1763, 'walking' on the pedals  because  sitting on the bench he could not reach them

Mozart stayed here several times, first in 1763, on his way from Salzburg to München vv.

Asylum ausrangierter Orgeln: collection of over 60 disfavoured organs and consoles - > www.lampl-orgelzentrum.com

The singer Leo Slezak lived in this former farm at the Tegernsee 1909-†1946  -  today a restaurant and hotel with small Slezak exhibition

The Carmina Burana MS from c. 1300 was found here in 1803; today in München - Organ by J.Chr. Egedacher 1686/A. Jäger 1771, II/p/40 - Grave of Heinrich Kaminski, †1946, at the cemetery.

The composer Heinrich Kaminski lived in the villa of the painter Franz Marc from 1914 until his death in 1946. In the garden a Komponierhütte, a gift from his colleague and friend Walter Braunfels.  > www.heinrich-kaminski.de

Violin making school since 1858  - today Staatliche Berufsfach- und Fachschule für Geigenbau

Monument (1890) of Matthias Klotz, who founded the Mittenwald violin making tradition in 1683;  it reached its greatest expansion in the 19^th century.

Museum with a true-to-life workshop and a collection of string instruments

Villa of Richard Strauss 1908-†49, still occupied by the family.  His ashes are in his bedroom. In the garden a Guntram-Marterl,concerning failed first opera

Strauss Museum and Archive since 1999 in former Villa Christina (1893)

Splendid organ by Hans Georg Hörterich, 1763, 2 manuals, 27 stops and Zimbelstern

Prokofiev amd his mother stayed here from March until September 1922 and composed the 5th sonata and parts of his opera L'Ange du Feu

Neo-rococo castle (1870-79), artificial 'Venus cave' with 'Lohengrin's canoe', referring to Wagner's operas. The 'huts of Gurnemanz and Hunding' didn't survive.

Arnold Schönberg spent the holiday of 1914 in Murnau (adress unknown) and visited the painter Kandinsky, who lived here. Meeting point of the avant-garde.

Passion play every 10 years, with music by Rochus Dedler (1779-1822). In 1995 performance of Strauss' Salome, another kind of 'passion play'...

organ front by Hans Georg Hörterich, 1765  -  in 1967 some 18th century sheet music was found, used to seal the wind chest; a fuga by Padre Martini was one of the finds.

house of Werner Egk 1955-†1983 - medieval scene on bedroom door painted by Egk , in the study he had an acoustic ceiling made of wickerwork.

house of Hans Pfitzner 1919-29  -  he was teaching here and composed the huge Eichendorff cantata Von deutscher Seele.

House of Carl Orff 1955-†1982, built by brother-in-law Alwin Seifert. Exhibition includes display of theatrical works and educational Orff-Instrumentarium.

Grave of Carl Orff († 1982) in side chapel - organ front by J. Michael Dietrich, 1715 - yearly Orff festival

Brahms monument - also bust of the pianist Elly Ney, who lived here 1930-†1968 - no traces of Reger or Humperdinck, who spent holidays here

Stay of Brahms in the summer of 1873 - composition of the Haydn Variations and the two string quartets op. 51

Mozart is said to have composed the Ave Maria KV 554 here, but any possible visit by him should have taken place previously; probably written for Bernried.

house of Wagner, June-October 1864

favoured home of Ludwig II, many visits by Wagner in May 1864  -  still occupied by Wittelsbach descendants

harp factory, established in 1928 by Josef Obermayer, moved to Starnberg in 1952 and continued from 1966 by Max Horngacher

organ by Johannes Fux, 1736, 2 manuals and 27 stops, incl. 6 stops from 1630

Wall painting of Orlandus Lassus. He obtained a parcel here in 1587, on which he had a summer house built with kitchen garden.

From middle ages until the 19th century courtly residence - great court musicians working here include the blind organist Conrad Paumann 1450-†1473, Ludwig Senfl 1523-†1543, Lassus 1556-†1594; moreover Kerll, Dall'Abaco, Franz Lachner - frequent visits by Mozart  -  extensive musical life.  For theatres see  www.bayerische.staatsoper.de

built from 16th (Grottenhof, Antiquarium) until 18th century, partly destroyed in april 1944. Lassus plaque (location of his grave) in underpass Franz-Josefs-Platz.

built in the 17th century - In February 1775 two masses of Mozart were performed, conducted by father Leopold

built 1750-53  -  FP of Mozart's Idomeneo ( 1781) and Weber's Abu Hassan (1811)  -  after the war rebuilt (after the interior was brought to safety).

appearance by Mozart at a Hofakademie 4.XI.1790

in one of the classicistic rooms (1814) some musical instruments are displayed

these rooms remind of the first meeting between Wagner and Ludwig II on 4.V.1864, but the Ludwig's nearby Audienzzimmer was destroyed

from 1953 until 1985 the main concert hall of Munich

built 1812-18, rebuilt in 1825 and 1965 - with 2100 seats Germany's biggest opera house - FP of operas by Wagner, R. Strauss, Pfitzner, Orff a.o.

Franz Lachner died here in 1880

The name is the only reminder of Orlando di Lasso (Lassus), who lived on this spot; at nr. 9 was his Kantorei - all historic buildings were demolished in the 19th century

in the house Sonneck Mozart stayed with the oboist Fiala (winter 1780-81) and composed the Oboe Quartet KV 370 - house destroyed in 1944

Mozart monument in the courtyard of the first Wittelsbach residence

Mozart visited Max Clemens von Seinsheim in Nov./Dec. 1780

a plaque reminds of the former graves of Evariste Dall'Abaco (†1842) and of François Cuvilliés, the architect of the Cuvilliés theatre (> 7801D)

fountain in honour of Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-63), all his lifetime a citizen of Munich

monuments of Lassus and Gluck (the latter had no relation to Munich, but was born on Bavarian territory; > Berching-Erasbach.

the gravestone of the organist and composer Conrad Paumann (†1473) is worth seeing - Richard Strauss was baptised here (11.VI.1864)

Important centre of church music in the 17th and 18th century and court church from 1773 - Grave of Ludwig II.

6 m. tall Straussbrunnen (H. Wimmer, 1962) with scenes from Salome - in front of the Alte Akademie, where Jesuit scholar theatre was performed.

house of the instrument maker Theobald Boehm, who evolved in 1832 the flute mechanism to which many modern woodwind mechanisms are indebted

Birthplace of Richard Strauss (°1864) had outlived the war but was demolished in the 1960s. - Family house 1866-76, Sonnenstraße 26, was destroyed.

concert hall for chamber music

13 years old Weber stayed here with his singing teacher Valesi in 1799 and composed his first opera (MS lost)

vast collection of instruments from all continents and recordings - performances

Fountain devoted to folk singers

The museum in the medieval Isartor is devoted to folk singers - performances in the nostalgic Volkssängerlokal

specially built as puppet theatre in 1900, but originating from a Kasperltheater that was established in 1859 - today opera performances by marionets

built in 1865 - comparable to the Volksoper in Vienna: lighter and more adventurous repertoire than in Nationaltheater(opera, operetta, musical, dance)

extensive collection of instruments - concert hall

New and better concert hall for the Munich PO: Isarphilharmonie, with 1958 seats. Opened in 2021.  - Branch of the Music Academy (former Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium)

oldest and best known jazz club of Munich - daily (except Monday) from 9 p.m.

Max Reger lived here, just married, 1902-03

house of Hans Pfitzner, 1929-43

house (built 1898) of the sculptor Adolf Hildebrand, frequent host of Reger, Pfitzner, R. Strauss and Cosima Wagner

musical instruments from the court - Lassus' beautiful gravestone (his remains rest under the Franz-Josefs-Platz; plaque > 7801)

built in 1901 for yearly opera festival - today theatre academy and theatre, concert hall - Wagner monument (the inscription honours Ludwig II)

monument of Ludwig II on the planned location of his Festspielhaus, the construction of which was thwarted by Wagner (the inscription honours Wagner…)

location of the villa which Ludwig II provided to Wagner, 1864-65; destroyed during World-War II

rich museum and archive on Munich's theatre history

one of the leading music academies of Germany, originating from a singing school from 1830 - several concert halls

Departments of musicology, music pedagogics and dramaturgy,beloncing to the faculty of history and arts of the University.

the 'Stabi' disposes of Germany's largest collection on musicology, incl. 27000 MSs - MS Carmina Burana - collections of Michael Haydn, Lachner, Rheinberger

house of Josef Rheinberger from 1867 until his death in 1901

former seat of the Günther-Schule, where Orff developed his Schulwerk - today comprehensive documentation on Orff's life and works

former seat of the Günther-Schule, where Orff developed his Schulwerk - today comprehensive documentation on Orff's life and works

birthplace of Carl Orff, °1895 - facing military barracks: hence the frequent thumping rhythms in his works?

house of Karl Amadeus Hartmann

house of Max Reger 1905-07

In the Munich counterpart of the Walhalla (> 7221) there are busts of Bavarian personalities, a.o. Hans Sachs, Gluck (with erroneous first name), Abbé Vogler, Hartmann, Orff and (!) Lassus. 

graves of Peter von Winter, Franz Lachner, Theobald Boehm and court organist Caspar Ett (†1847)

graves of Reger (since 1930) and Hartmann

appearance by the Mozarts at an Abendmusik on 13.VI.1763 in the mirror hall; Wolfgang played keyboard and violin - today concerts during summer