Museen der Schubertiade Hohenems

About the museum

The Schubertiade, founded in Hohenems in 1976 with a song recital by Hermann Prey and now one of the best-known festivals for song and chamber music, has gradually set up a series of small museums in the historic town centre. The first, in 2011, was the Franz Schubert Museum in the restored former parsonage on Marktstraße, whose rooms were built a few years before Schubert’s birth; on the upper floor a hall with a Rococo stucco ceiling serves as a listening room. In the same year a museum for the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was created in the Villa Rosenthal, the seat of Schubertiade GmbH. The Schubertiade owns a musically and historically important part of her estate and that of her husband Walter Legge; the exhibition was redesigned in 2019 and follows the singer’s complete performance calendar.

In 2013 the Legge Museum opened, devoted to the first great producer of classical records, who worked with Maria Callas, Herbert von Karajan and Wilhelm Furtwängler, among others, and founded the Philharmonia Orchestra. Since 2015 a room there has commemorated Stefan Zweig, whose grandfather was a co-owner of the house. In 2016 the Schubertiade Museum, in a house dating from 1659, which tells of Schubert’s influence on performers, editors and authors as well as of the history of the festival, and the Nibelungen Museum were added. The latter recalls that two manuscripts of the Nibelungenlied were rediscovered in the Hohenems palace in the 18th century, and focuses on Richard Wagner’s “Ring” and the singers Lilli Lehmann and Franz Nachbaur; the first printing house in Vorarlberg once stood on its site.

The ensemble is completed by a Shoemaker Museum with the fully preserved workshop of Karl Nachbauer, grandfather of the Schubertiade managing director, and by the Salomon Sulzer Gallery on the cantor born in Hohenems, who commissioned Schubert’s setting of the 92nd Psalm. A joint ticket is valid for all houses for one year.

Highlights

• Franz Schubert Museum in the former parsonage with a listening room under a Rococo stucco ceiling
• Estate of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Walter Legge
• Documents from the archive of the record producer Walter Legge
• Nibelungen Museum on the site of the first printing house in Vorarlberg
• Fully preserved shoemaker’s workshop

Permanent exhibitions

• Franz-Schubert-Museum – The life and work of Franz Schubert on two floors of the former parsonage, with a listening room and a lending library.
• Legge-Museum – Documents from the archive of the record producer Walter Legge on his work with conductors, singers and the Philharmonia Orchestra, plus a room on Stefan Zweig and the musical life of his time.
• Nibelungen-Museum – Small museum on the rediscovery of the Nibelungenlied in Hohenems and on its adaptations for stage and film, above all Wagner’s “Ring des Nibelungen”.

Founded

2011

Operated by

Schubertiade GmbH

Admission & discounts

The ticket is valid for one year from the date of purchase for any number of visits to all Schubertiade museums during the announced opening hours. The Salomon Sulzer Gallery is freely accessible.

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Getting there & parking

The Franz Schubert Museum is reached through the garden of the former parsonage. The other houses are on Marktstraße (nos. 5, 6 and 15) and at Schweizer Straße 1.

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