The Composers Quarter Hamburg (German: Komponistenquartier Hamburg) is a gathering of six museums in the Peterstraße in Hamburg-Neustadt, Germany. The associated museums have one or two classical composers as a theme who were born or have lived in the city of Hamburg.[1]
KomponistenQuartier Hamburg | |
.JPG) entrance of five of the six musea | |
  Location within Hamburg  Composers Quarter Hamburg (Germany) | |
| Established | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Location | Peterstraße 29-39, Hamburg-Neustadt |
| Coordinates | 53°33′4.46″N 9°58′36.73″E / 53.5512389°N 9.9768694°E |
| Type | biographical museums |
| Curator | dr. Alexander Odefey |
| Owner | Komponistenquartier Hamburg e.V. |
| Website | www |
The museums are located in restored historical buildings.[1] With the use of multimedia the lives and works of the composers are being cleared. Insight is being given why the composers may still matter in the current era.[2]
The quarter is represented by the association with the same name that was founded in 2015.[3] The following list shows the member museums, the composers that are themed and the year of establishment:[4]
- Brahms Museum, Johannes Brahms, 1971[1]
- Telemann Museum, Georg Philipp Telemann, 2011[1]
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Museum, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 2015[1]
- Johann Adolph Hasse Museum, Johann Adolph Hasse, 2015[1]
- Gustav Mahler Museum, Gustav Mahler, 2018[5]
- Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, 2018[5]
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- ^ a b c d e f Süddeutsche Zeitung, Hamburgs Komponistenquartier, 6 July 2018 (in German)
- ^ NDR, KomponistenQuartier Hamburg eröffnet neue Museen, 28 May 2018 (in German)
- ^ Stadt Hamburg, KomponistenQuartier, Museen für Hamburgs große Komponisten (in German)
- ^ Hamburger Abentblatt, „KomponistenQuartier“: Schlüsselübergabe in neuem Museum, 16 December 2014 (in German)
- ^ a b Deutschland Funk, Platz für Mahler und Mendelssohn-Geschwister, Dagmar Penzlin, 28 May 2018 (in German)