Festival Vielsaitig
Füssen
The „festival vielsaitig” revives the most important history of Füssen as “cradle of the european tones and construction of violins” in the connection with reliving violin construction and playing.
Diverse references are created between the imposing nature of the Füssen land and the extensive cultural history. With the initiative connection of “serious” with modern music and other arts, the festival leads in other directions.
The programme sounds out the wide amount of music and literature between symphonic poetry and cantata, chamber music “Liedermacher” (song writers, singers), Minnesang and Rap.
A forum for the construction of violins offering interesting lectures and courses for chamber music lures the music profis to Füssen, “the cradle of the european sounds” – and violin construction.
Füssen, the birth place of the european sound and creation of violins
The history of the Füssen tones and construction of violins is at the same time history of the work immigration. Hundreds emigrated in the 16th and 17th century to establish ithemselves in the european culture metropol trade , opening workshops so that they could use their craftmanship proffessionally in princely homes and in trading centers in big towns. In the 16th and 17th century approximately two thirds of all lute makers in Venedig and Padua were descendants from Füssen. Also in Rome and Naples the musical instruments were made from the Allgäuer. One german master after the other lived then in the “Via dei Leutari” in Rome.
In this meaningful history of the building or construction of musical instruments unites the “festival vielsaitig” at the same time inspiring the varied wonderful nature of the Füssen countryside.
