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Postcard from Germany: Heidelberg String Quartet Festival

2025-03-21T10:46:00

Quatuor Diotima beim Eröffnungskonzert_1_c Nico Rademacher

Carlos María Solare joined the loyal audience at Heidelberg’s String Quartet Festival, which celebrated both its 20th anniversary and the upcoming 90th birthday of composer Helmut Lachenmann

The historic Old Town of Heidelberg, cosily laid out below the city castle, is a well-frequented haunt for both locals and tourists, its numerous shops, cafés and taverns constantly alive with patrons, students from the city’s university (founded in 1386 and the oldest in Germany) prominent among them. But only a few tram stops away, on the other side of the river Neckar, there lies the residential district of Neuenheim, its streets lined with luxurious villas from the Gründerzeit (Age of the Founders…

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