Traveling shifts and broadens the horizon. Deliberate travel can consciously bring about and reinforce this effect. The English “grand tourists” were already aware of this 400 or more years ago. The German cavaliers followed in their footsteps and awakened the ambition of citizens to satisfy their own thirst for education and adventure.
After monuments, landscapes and celebrities, music gradually became the focus of interest. Following the example of Englishman Charles Burney, Potsdam will become the starting point for two weeks of musical journeys that open up new horizons, from early music to chansons, from concerts and opera performances for connoisseurs to hands-on programs for children.
The Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival is a festival featuring music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods in historically informed performance practice. In recent years, it has also opened up to jazz, world music and new music. The festival takes place every year for three weeks in June with around 80 events in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens of Potsdam & Berlin as well as in the historic center of Potsdam and its surroundings.
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