Musikverein

The Große Musikvereinssaal in Vienna is regarded as the crown jewel among world’s concert halls. It is a space that transmutes architecture into music and music into architecture. One reaction among music lovers attending the hall’s opening at the time noted: “If it were possible to imagine Mozart’s great Jupiter Symphony constructed as concrete, visible architectural forms, the Musikverein’s new concert hall would provide a vision to match this.” When the concert hall opened its doors for the first time on 6 January 1870, its impact upon visitors was overwhelming. “No matter how high expectations might be“, wrote the press, “they will be exceeded by first impressions of the hall, which is unique in its quality of architectonic beauty and elegant grandeur.”