1. ODEON Konzert der ODEON-Konzertreihe 2025/26: Kontraste im Blick. Bartók im Fokus

In the organizer's words:

The Odeon concert series enters a new round on November 26, 2025 at 7:00 pm in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche in Munich. As every season, the European Cultural Foundation EUROPAMUSICALE, in collaboration with the Münchener Konzertverein e. V., will once again present exemplary and well-known masterpieces of chamber music.

This year, the focus is on the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Bartók was not a composer who simply "invented" music. He searched for it - out in the fields, in the villages, in the songs of shepherds and peasant women. He was one of the first to understand: There is an unadulterated truth in the music of ordinary people. Bartók's music tells of freedom and humanity, but also of flight. He was an opponent of fascism and emigrated to the USA in 1940.

Even today, we are experiencing a social change that does not leave us untouched. "In a time of unacceptance, disrespect and ignorance, it is our task as cultural practitioners to counteract this," says Helmut Pauli, founder of the EUROPAMUSICALE Cultural Foundation. That is why, eighty years after his death, we are letting Bartók's music be heard again. Because music can do what words often cannot: it reminds. And it connects.

Bartók's music will be performed by students and professors from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater (HMTM) , as is customary every year at the Odeon concerts. Bartók's works will be complemented by pieces from the romantic and classical chamber music repertoire. In a relaxed atmosphere in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche, both classical music lovers and those new to classical music will get their money's worth.

Price information:

Pupils and students receive a 50% discount. HMTM students get free admission. (Both are only possible on presentation of a valid ID).