Muzyka dla Europy.
Music for Europe.
Musik aus Kreisau. Für Europa.
The international
Chamber Music Festival
for the Next Generation
Get to know the Krzyżowa-Music idea
as well as the people behind.
Krzyżowa-Music is the internationally renowned chamber music festival for the next generation at the heart of Europe. Here musical talents from all continents meet formative musical personalities of our time. Together they develop to the highest level a wide-ranging and fascinating repertoire of chamber music from Bach to the present day, bringing these works to life in numerous workshops and concerts. Here musicians with diverse opinions and from different cultural backgrounds search for a common language and learn from one another trying to find the perfect sound.
* from the papers of the Kreisau Circle
More than a
Chamber Music Festival
Krzyżowa-Music, however, is much more than a chamber music festival. Krzyżowa is a historically significant place of encounter and reflection, where during the Second World War a number of courageous people envisioned a peaceful Europe – a Europe that enables us today to promote international friendship and understanding by bringing together musicians from all over the world. An essential part of our mission is to encourage our musicians to become aware of their social responsibility in this historic site as role models.
Our Inspiration
Here in Krzyżowa, formerly Kreisau, on the estate of Freya and Helmuth James von Moltke, a civilian resistance group planned 1942–1943 a peaceful and democratic Europe without borders. They had been inspired by the creative and inclusive teachings of the educational reformer and philanthropist, Eugenie Schwarzwald, and her Vienna circle. It was in Krzyżowa that Germany and Poland celebrated their Mass of Reconciliation in November 1989, a starting point for Europe to grow closer together.
