Tonhalle Zürich
Lakeside concert hall with acclaimed acoustics, built where a fugitive composer once demanded a proper stage.
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This guide to the Tonhalle Zurich follows Richard Wagner, who fled a warrant for his arrest after Dresden's 1849 uprising and found nine years of shelter in Zurich. It traces his frustrating stint conducting the city's amateur orchestra in a converted grain warehouse that seated fourteen hundred people, and his 1855 resignation over a hall he judged unfit for real music. Listen for how long that grievance lingered in a city that had sheltered a wanted man for nearly a decade.
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