- Konzerthaus Berlin
The Konzerthaus Berlin (once called the Schauspielhaus Berlin) is a
concert hall situated in theGendarmenmarkt square of centralBerlin . Since 1994 it has been the seat of the major German orchestraKonzerthausorchester Berlin .The building's predecessor, the "National-Theater", was destroyed by fire in 1817. It had been designed by
Carl Gotthard Langhans and inaugurated onJanuary 1 ,1802 . The hall was redesigned byKarl Friedrich Schinkel between 1818 and 1821, and the new inauguration onJune 18 ,1821 featured the premier ofCarl Maria von Weber 's opera "Der Freischütz ". Other works that have premiered at the Konzerthaus include "Undine" byE. T. A. Hoffmann (1816), "Penthesilea" byHeinrich von Kleist (1876), and "Iphigenie in Delphi" byGerhart Hauptmann (1941).The interior and exterior designs, including many of the sculptures of composers, are by
Christian Friedrich Tieck andBalthasar Jacob Rathgeber .The building was gutted by another fire in
1945 and reopened in1984 .External links
* [http://www.konzerthaus.de/ Konzerthaus Berlin web site]
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