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House of the banker J. Sarasin, concert hall in the 18th century of which original details have survived - now government building

Rich archive and research centre for 20th c. music, est. In 1973 - manuscripts, books, recordings; largest Stravinsky archive. see Paul Sacher Stiftung

Switzerland's largest collection of musical instruments - part of the Historische Museum Basel.

Concert hall - FP of Bartók's Music for strings, percussion and celesta in 1937.

Music Academy (1867), Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (1933) and Municipal Music School. With concert hall - FP of Bartók's Sonata for 2 pianos & percussion in 1938. Bust of Hans Huber (former director).

Basel Jazz School (1999).

Theatre built in 1975; 2 halls - opera, operetta, musical, ballet, drama.

The composer Hans Huber (1852-1921) lived in Basel from 1877 to 1918, in this house from 1897.

House of the composer Albert Moeschinger (1897-1985). He lived here during his youth from 1904; his birthplace was on Fischmarkt (house number not known).

Last house, from 1916, of the composer and conductor Hermann Suter (1870-1926). Best known work: oratorio Le Laudi (1923), based on the Canticle of the Sun by St Francis.

Villa of the wealthy conductor and generous patron Paul Sacher - visits by numerous composers. Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) stayed here at the end of his life; his first gravestone is in the garden (see next item). No entry.

The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů died here in 1959 during his stay with Paul Sacher. He was initially buried in Sacher's garden but reburied in his birthplace Polička (CZ) in 1979.

Collection Dieter Stalder of reed organs, extended with other organs harmoniummuseum

Famous French style organ by Joh. Andreas Silbermann, 1761, III/p/36. Last restoration in 2005.

Grave of the composer Paul Juon, °1872 in Moscow, †1940 in Vevey. Family grave. Juon was a pupil of Taneyev and a prominent teacher in Berlin. From 1933 he lived in Switzerland.

Collection H. Weiss-Stauffacher of music boxes, barrel organs, juke boxes etc. from three ages , incl. the imposing 'Britannic Organ' from the sister-ship of the Titanic (ca.1912).

Built 1925-28, centre of anthroposophy, established by Rudolf Steiner. Eurhythmie classes - Auditorium - Viktor Uhlmann archive. www.goetheanum.org.

Monument of the composer Hans Huber (1852-1921), born in Eppenberg. His birthplace was demolished.

Monument (Alice Streit, 1930s - concrete) of the composer Hans Huber, who lived here during his youth. It depicts the elder Huber, surrounded by children.

Bell-foundry since 1367

www.guk.ch (only guided tours by appointment)

Tree and plaque 'Robert-Stolz-Linde' (1980) in honour of the operetta composer and conductor Robert Stolz (1880-1975).

Richard Strauss lived from Oct. 1945 until May 1949 in Swiss hotels, avoiding the current denazification process. He started this voluntary exile in this former hotel. (See also Pontresina, Lausanne, Montreux)

Historical theatre and concert hall. Built in 1769 for the Grande Société and from 1837 subsidized by the city. In use until 1903.

Built in 1909 as a venue for various cultural events. Concert hall with 1332 seats.

Opera and ballet theatre and concert hall with 800 seats, built in 1903 and renovated in 1982-83.

Museum of wind music: history, construction, practice. Based on the collection Karl Burri, originally displayed in Zimmerwald (1970-2015).

www.klingendes-museum-bern.ch

Manufacture of alphorns (long wooden mountain horns). Visits possible (commercially exploited)

www.alphornmacherei.ch

Birthplace of the composer Willy Burkhard (1900-1955).

Later house of Willy Burkhard. The memorial stone of his birth was erroneously placed here.

Summer house of Paul Sacher - stays of Bartok (1939 Divertimento, beginning 6th str.4) and Frank Martin (1945 Golgotha).

Yehudi Menuhin stayed in Saanen 1954-81 and founded the 'Menuhin Festival Gstaad' (yearly, August) in 1957 >

www.menuhinfestivalgstaadt.ch

Menuhin Center Saanen, with exhibition.

Start of a trail (2,5 km) to Saanen with 12 'stations', providing quotations by Yehudi Menuhin.

Brienz is a traditional centre of violin making, with this training institute and several makers in the village.

Mendelssohn stayed here in 1842 - the landlord asked his intervention for being mentioned in Murray's Handbook to Switzerland.

Mendelssohn 1847, for last time playing organ - organ by Anton Carlen from 1837, renovated 1963 with small Mendelssohn plaque.

Since 15th century Klostertaverne - Mendelssohn stayed here in 1837, 1842, 1845 and 1847. (Another guest was Lord Byron.) Renovations in 1946 and 1985.

Mendelssohn stayed here in 1831.

Brahms monument by H. Habacher, erected in 1933 after the demolition of the house in which the composer stayed during the summers of 1886-88.

Concert hall. In the 17th century a venue of theatre performances, which later were given in the sacristy of the Jesuit church in the same street.

Organ by J and N Geißler, 1648, II/p/48, of which the case and 19 stops are extant. Many later extensions, incl. Fernwerk and Echowerk. Present disposition V/p/104.

Former Dubeli-Café, favourite pub of Wagner. Wagner plaque and habitual table.

Built in 1839 - opera & ballet. Famous festival Internationale Musikfestwochen.

Built between 1995 and 2000, spectacular architecture by Jean Nouvel. The great concert hall with 1800 seats was opened in 1998.

Wagner stayed here in 1859, composing the third act of Tristan.

Grave of conductor Willem Mengelberg, †1951.

House of Richard Wagner 1866-72, birthplace of his son Siegfried; composition of Siegfried-Idyll - collection of instruments - concerts.

Manufacture of alphorns (long wooden mountain horns).

The composer Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schauensee (1720-1789) lived here from 1750. He wrote sacred music and three operas.

Castle on the Sempachersee and family home of the composer, teacher and writer Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786-1868).

Villa of Sergey Rakhmaninov, 1932-39. The Paganini variations and the Third Symphony were written here - still family property.

Rakhmaninov monument.

Summer house of Hans Huberfrom 1883. Richard Strauss stayed with him in 1903 and composed a canon a 4 as an expression of gratitude: Hans Huber in Vitznau sei schönstens bedankt.

Gravestone of the composer Hans Huber (1852-1921). The grave in the church was cleared in the early 1940s but the corpse was not reburied on the cemetery.

Béla Bartók wrote here Ajánlás (from 10 Easy Pieces) in 1908, R. Strauss stayed here during the late 1940s. There is a small exhibition gallery on musicians, working in the district.

Chororgel by Nikolaus Schönenbüel, 1646, I/-/8. - from the main organ (1690) only front extant - concerts.

Mendelssohn visited the monastery in 1831, playing the two organs: chororgel 1737 (new interior by Kuhn) and main organ, substituted by the present organ by Friedrich Goll, 1877/1926, IV/p/137. Largest organ of the country.

Birthplace of Alberich Zwyssig, °1808, composer of the Swiss national anthem Schweizerpsalm. Exhibition in the basement.

Grave of Alberich Zwyssig, †1854 in Bregenz.

Birthplace of the composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957).

Schoeck monument by Josef Bisa (1959).

Wagner stayed in former hotel Goldener Adler in the 1860s, intending to erect a Festspielhaus here - now residences.

Centre of church music - Eastern and Passion plays from the 11th c. - Rich music library (MSs J.Chr. Bach, Mozart a.o.) - 2 organs, concerts.

Birthplace of the composer Joachim Raff (1822-1882) - Raff monument outside.

The Cistercian monk Alberich Zwyssig composed here the Swiss national anthem Schweizerpsalm in 1841.

House of Rüdiger Manesse, the probable commissioner of the most famous Minnesänger manuscript (c 1340, now in Heidelberg).

Monument from 1848 of the composer, writer and music publisher Hans Georg Nägeli (1773-1836). He lived at Promenadengasse 11.

Cabaret café, established in 1916, cradle of world wide 'Dadaism'.

www.cabaretvoltaire.ch.

Music shop, publishing house and repair workshop, established in 1807.

Two of Wagner's favoured local pubs.

Two houses of Richard Wagner: 1851-53 and (with plaque) 1853-57 - now Portuguese embassy. The two houses where Othmar Schoeck lived between 1917 and 1929 (nr 53 and 83) were demolished.

House of the composer Frank Martin (1890-1974) from 1918 until 1920.

The Art Academy includes an academy of music .

www.zhdk.ch.

Established in 1875, actual name since 2000 www.konsi.ch.

Built in 1891 (Fellner & Helmer) - opera & ballet - 1100 seats.

Ceiling decorations from Kornhaus (where Mozart appeared in 1766) - the Kornhaus itself was demolished in 1897.

Mozart stayed here in October 1766; other guests include Casanova and Goethe - building much altered.

Possible appearance by Mozart, October 1766.

One of Wagner's favoured local pubs.

Hotel from 1844 - Wagner reciting the text of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Febr. 1853; his portrait is in the entrance hall.

Musical instruments, collection Hug.

Concert hall from 1895, exterior changed in 1937 and extended. Main hall with 1430 seats and ceiling painting 'composers' heaven'. Home of the Tonhalle Orchester.

The composer Arthur Honegger staying with his uncle during his study years, 1909-11.

Former Villa Wesendonck - many visits by Richard Wagner; he stayed in the adjoining 'Asyl' (demolished) 1857-58. Today a rich ethnographical museum.

Last house, from 1932, of the composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957).

Othmar Schoeck-Brunnen.

Comprehensive Schoeck archive - 'O.S.-Gesellschaft': critical edition of his works.

Grave of the composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957).

Last house, from 1942, of the composer Willy Burkhard (1900-1955).

Grave of the composer Willy Burkhard (1900-1955).

Grave of the German composer Hermann Goetz (1840-1876). His last house was in Zürich-Hottingen.

Brahms stayed here in summer 1866, meeting Theodor Kirchner and working on Ein deutsches Requiem.

Brahms stayed here in the summer of 1874.

Wagner took a cure here from 15.IX to 23.XI.1851, while developing new ideas (Ring, own theatre). - Albisbrunn closed its doors in 1922.

Leading firm of organ making and restoring, since 1864 - > www.orgelbau.ch

Leading firm of organ making and restoring, since 1864 www.orgelbau.ch.

House of the Wille family - many visits by Wagner, longer stay in March-April 1864 - several recollections.

The only jazz museum in Switzerland --> www.jazzorama.ch

Birthplace of the composer, writer and music publisher Hans Georg Nägeli (1773-1836). Also the house of Johannes Schmidlin (1722-1772), a clergyman and composer of over 200 sacred songs.

Nägeli room with memorabilia.

The Musikkollegium, established in 1629, had the disposal of a concert hall on the first floor of the then town hall.

Built 1865-69 by Gottfried Semper (the architect of the Dresden opera), with concert hall, the successor of the Rathaus hall. Musikkolegium SO since 1875.

Renowned German composers were organist here: Theodor Kirchner from 1843 to 1862 and Hermann Goetz from 1863 to 1872.

Brahms visited the music publisher Melchior Rieter-Biedermann in 1866. He stayed in the garden house, composing a part of Ein deutsches Requiem.

Last house of Paul Burkhard (1911-1977), a composer of light music and the creator of the worldwide hit Oh, mein papa

Hindemith lived here from 1951 to '53, twice a week working at Zürich university - composition of Harmonie der Welt.

Birthplace of the composer Heinrich Sutermeister (1910-1995).

Famous library, a real ΨΥΧΗΣ ΛATPEION (temple of the soul) with many treasures. The manuscripts from the 9th century open up the roots of gregorian chant.

www.stiftsbibliothek.ch

Concert hall in Art Nouveau style, opened in 1909. Nikisch, R.Strauss, Weingartner and Toscanini were guest conductors; Othmar Schoeck conducted from 1917 to 1944. Home of St. Gallen SO. Two linked halls.

Theatre in Brutalist style by Claude Paillard, opened in 1968. Opera, ballet, entertainment; 742 seats.

Music school for regional folk music.

Birthplace of the great music theorist Heinrich Loriti Glareanus (1488-1563).

Birthplace of the composer Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901); Rheinberger monument outside. Today music school and seat of the 'Rheinberger Gesellschaft'

Grave of Josef Rheinberger, †1901 in Munich, reburied in 1950.