Bauhaus Music 2026

The two-day festival “Bauhaus Music” will take place on November 13 and 14 in St. Elisabeth. It is dedicated to the idea of synesthesia and invites audiences to experience sound, colour, space, body and movement in new ways. The concert programme, dedicated to musical modernism, moves between avant-garde, classical, experimental music and jazz. The festival’s title, “I Feel Air from Another Planet,” is based on a quote by Arnold Schönberg. It became the guiding principle of a kind of music that leaves familiar structures behind and opens up new realms of listening and perception. It will be accompanied by workshops on the Bauhaus theory of harmonisation at the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv.

Programme

Friday, 13/11/26

Evening concert with concert introduction
Introduction: Kai Hinrich Müller, artistic director “Bauhaus Music”
6–6.30 pm

Concert
Lyonel Feininger: Fugue in E-flat Minor for Piano
Richard Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll WWV103 for chamber orchestra
Stefan Wolpe: Concert for Nine Instruments, op. 22
Arnold Schönberg: Second Quartet (F-flat minor) for two violins, viola, violoncello and a soprano, op. 10 (version for string orchestra)
At St. Elisabeth’s Church, 7–9 pm

Saturday, 14/11/26

Workshop
Kandinsky Synths
Making colours, light and temperature audible with DIY synthesisers
At The Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv, 11 am–12.30 pm, 12.30–2 pm

Workshop
Left Hand Yellow!
Moving Colours mit Gertrud Grunow
At The Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv, 2.30–4 pm

Concert “Tonal Colours”
Works by Aleksandr Skrjabin, Franz Liszt, Tōru Takemitsu and Claude Debussy, Yu Kosuge (piano)
At St. Elisabeth’s Church, 5–6 pm

Concert
“Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps” by Olivier Messiaen with Guy Braunstein (violin), Karl-Heinz Steffens (clarinet), Irena Josifoska (cello), Michal Friedlander (piano)
At St. Elisabeth’s Church, 6.30–7.30 pm

Concert
Duke Ellington meets “The Bauhaus-Kapelle Bauhaus Music” jazz band
At St. Elisabeth’s Church, 8–9.30 pm