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Odeon (Munich)

Former concert hall in Munich, Germany

Exterior of the Odeon, from the [[Ludwigstraße

Inner courtyard, formerly the concert auditorium, after being glazed over in 2007

The Odeon is a former concert hall in the Odeonsplatz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, which is named after it. Built in the early 19th century to a design by Leo von Klenze and forming a counterpoint to the externally identical Palais Leuchtenberg, it was rebuilt after being almost totally destroyed in World War II and now houses the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior.

History

The Odeon was built in 1826–1828 on a commission from King Ludwig I of Bavaria and was originally a concert hall and ballroom. Klenze designed the exterior as an identical counterpart to that of the Palais Leuchtenberg, so that there was no outward indication of its function. The auditorium, which measured 75 by and seated 1,445, had two superimposed colonnades which provided access on the ground floor and a gallery with standing room, and a ceiling 50 ft high with a skylight. The orchestra was accommodated in a semi-circular exedra, behind which in niches were busts by Johannes Leeb of the ten composers then considered most important in the history of music: Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck, Handel, Haydn, Vogler, Méhul, Weber, Cimarosa and Winter. The hall, which has been called "one of the most extraordinary classical architectural solutions of the concert hall", had excellent acoustics and was popular with the public.

The building was gutted in an air raid on the night of 25 April 1944. Beginning in 1951, it was rebuilt by Josef Wiedemann to house the Ministry of the Interior.

In 2003–06, the courtyard was covered with a glazed roof (a gridshell) by the architecture firm of Ackermann and Partner.

References

[http://www.stmi.bayern.de/ministerium/geschichte/detail/06175/ Geschichte des Odeons: von Leo von Klenze bis heute] {{Webarchive. link. (2008-06-22 , [[Bavarian Ministry of the Interior]] {{in lang). de, with historical photographs and plan.
Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch, ''Munich: Its Art-treasures and Curiosities; Supplement to Every Travelling Guide'', Munich, 1871, {{OCLC| 681426067}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bqY_AAAAYAAJ&dq=Odeon+Beethoven%2C+Mozart%2C+Gluck%2C+H%C3%A4ndel%2C+Haydn%2C+Vogler%2C+M%C3%A9hul%2C+Weber%2C+Cimarosa+und+Winter&pg=PA45 p. 45].
The ceiling was decorated with [[fresco]]es in the [[Nazarene movement. de [https://archive.org/stream/ausaachensvorzei09vere/ausaachensvorzei09vere_djvu.txt digitised] at [[Archive.org]].
''eine der außergewöhnlichsten klassizistischen Lösungen der Bauaufgabe Konzertsaal'' - [[Georg Dehio]], ''Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler'', ''Bayern'' Volume IV, ''München und Oberbayern'', 3rd ed. rev. Ernst Götz ''et al''., Munich: [[Deutscher Kunstverlag]], 2006, {{ISBN. 9783422031159, p. 878.
de, retrieved 3 March 2013.

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