Underground: L1-L4 Urquinaona
Transport: Bus 7, 19, 40 e 45
T. +34 (0)93 22.83.060 F. +34 (0)93 29.57.208
www.palaumusica.org atencioclient@palaumusica.org
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Palau de la Musica Catalana in English Palace of Catalan Music. The auditorium was designed between 1905 and 1908 by the architect Lluis Domenech i Montaner, one of the leaders of the Catalan modernism.
The construction of the Palau de la Musica was supported by some Catalan industrialists and financiers music lovers, as it happened for the most important theater in the city: the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
The Palace of Catalan Music was intended to concentrate chamber music, choral performances and a recital. Even today the Palau de la Musica has this function as part of classical and popular music.
The architecture of Domenech is very original and of high quality: outside the Palace, sculptural elements allude to the world of music blend with architectural decorations of modern and baroque.
Inside the Palau de la Musica Catalana the architect skillfully combined different construction materials with ceramics and glass.
The hall of the auditorium and stage form a harmonious conjunction, without divisions between one space and another.
The stage is dominated by the reeds of an immense body, which in turn are converted into a decorative element and iconographic of the Palace.
At the Palace of Catalan Music there are also spectacular sculptural pictures that reppresent populat and high music: on the right of the stage stands a bust of Beethoven onto some carved Doric columns, on which is carved the ride of the Valkyries (in reference to adoration of the Catalan public to Wagner), left the bust of Josep Anselm Clave.
The acoustics of the auditorium is indescribable, so that the world's best performers of the last century (as Strauss, Barenboim, and Rubinstein Stravinskj) performed in what can be described as a veritable sanctuary of music.
The Palau de la Musica Catalana in 1997 was included by UNESCO in its report for the Heritage of Humanity.
To see the programming of the Palace of Music, go to the official website.
Opening times of the Palace of Catalan Music for guided tours (every half hour):
Mon-Sun: 10h00-15h00
Last update 07/04/2009 15:56
Sicuramente una visita da non mancare anche se la visita guidata all'interno ci ha alquanto deluso e secondo me non vale il costo del biglietto. Ricordate che non c'e' guida in italiano
nicola ghiani - n.ghiani@alice.it (User not registered) 6/05/2010 22:28:57
io e Giusy lo abbiamo visitato; LA GIOVANE GUIDA CATALANA, DI CERTO NON FILO FRANCHISTA, E MOLTO SINCERO E ORGOGLIOSO CI HA PURE RESO EDOTTI DELLO SCANDALO DEI SOLDI RUBATI DALLA VECCHIA PRESIDENZA DEL TEATRO, OLTRE CHE SVELARCI I SEGRETI DI QUESTA MAESTOSA OPERA D' ARTE. BEN SPESI I SOLDI DEL BIGLIETTO, NE VALE LA PENA, IL SUONO DELL' ORGANO E IL RICAMO DELLE ARCHITETTURE LO RENDONO SECONDO ME...
