Top class sound experience
Neuschwanstein Concerts 2024 Open-Air
New: Classical music in the castle courtyard - Secure your remaining tickets now!
Since its founding in 1970, the Neuschwanstein concerts have attracted enthusiastic visitors to the castle’s Singers’ Hall. The Konzertgesellschaft Neuschwanstein e.V. is ending the painful nine-year hiatus and will provide new impetus with a distinctive profile in an open-air format in summer 2024. The castle courtyard of this world-famous landmark, which has never been performed in this way before, offers unique acoustics and atmosphere in a breathtaking setting on balmy summer evenings. International artists enchant with top-quality music.
Royal inspiration & modern interpretation
For the first time, locals and guests can experience how Bavaria’s landmark is transformed into a cosmopolitan sound space. King Ludwig II and the Romantic era serve as the common thread that is ingeniously woven into the overall programme. A concept that would have pleased Ludwig II, a programme that can only be found at Neuschwanstein. Especially as the 2024 classical series will be crowned by the fact that it will come to an end on his 179th birthday.
“Oh, it is necessary to create such paradises for yourself,
such poetic refuges,
where for some time, the terrible times in which we live,
can forget.”
Ludwig II.
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The detailed programme will be announced at a press conference in spring 2024 and will also be published here shortly afterwards.
Event period 21 to 25 August 2024
Tradition and innovation
Classical enjoyment in a class of its own
From 1970 to 2015, the Neuschwanstein Concerts delighted music lovers from near and far once a year with musical masterpieces of classical music. They were organised by the district of Ostallgäu and the municipality of Schwangau. The classical concert series was a musical highlight in Bavaria’s cultural calendar for many years and thrilled audiences in the magnificent Singers’ Hall, which King Ludwig II once created for his favourite composer Richard Wagner.
About us
Konzertgesellschaft Neuschwanstein e. V.
The Konzertgesellschaft Neuschwanstein e.V. is a non-profit organisation that has existed parallel to the earlier concerts since 1970. Over 100 members
have supported the concerts organised by the district of Ostallgäu and the municipality of Schwangau with grants and purchases.Â
Obituary
Dear Johann,
“Punctuality is an ornament, but you can get further without it.” Anyone who knew you well knows that you were very fond of this saying. Not because you wanted to be rude, but because you always took the necessary time for your district, your social and political projects and the people who were close to your heart. As a result, you were “consistent and busy” – as was your nature – and lived your own schedule to the end, in your words, “flexibly”.
And that is exactly what you are now asking of us, your colorful bunch. And more than ever. We were used to your own sense of time, even as your colleagues at the castle concerts. No phone call under 60 minutes. Team meetings late into the night. Passionate pleas for your passion project, the new Neuschwanstein concerts.
One of your trademarks: Endlessly long e-mails. What began with three small dots only ended many paragraphs later. A tour de force through your thoughts and your inexhaustible wealth of ideas.
You took each of us with you personally. The same applies to state ministers, sponsors and the palace administration. No obstacle was too high for you. After all, it’s not for nothing that your homepage says “Problems are there to be solved”.
Unfortunately, we now have to shoulder this without you. But we will always have your mantra in our ears: “Good is not good enough.” You were a perfectionist à la couleur. Your ideas were visionary. You set the pace for us. You set the pace for us. Lento was not your speed. Everything had to go presto. And pronto.
No one could pay as much attention and energy to the smallest details as you did.
But all this was forgotten once you had arranged everything behind the scenes again – without much fuss. “Unagitated and unconventional” is probably the best way to describe you. You were our driving force, motivator and mentor at the same time. We thank you, our maestro, from the bottom of our hearts.
You left the stage before the final applause, which you deserved so much. May your spirit and your smile be with us.
While we are struggling for every word here in our grief, you would have struck the right note there with your own ease, completely relaxed, charismatic and confident. We promise you that we will once again pool all our strength for you on the home straight. So that you can still receive the final applause from your heavenly box seat.
In your name, we will bow in deepest gratitude and humility. To the audience, to your family and to you.