Early music festivals is a generic term for musical festivals focused on music before Beethoven, or including historically informed performance of later works. The increase in the number of music festivals specializing in early music is a reflection of the early music revival of the 1970s and 1980s. Many larger festivals such as that an Aix-en-Provence Festival also include early music sections, as do, inevitably, festivals of sacred music; such as the Festival de Música Sacra do Baixo Alentejo, in Portugal. Although most early music festivals are centered on commercial performance, many include also workshops. This articles includes an incomplete list of early music festivals, which may overlap with topics such as list of Bach festivals, list of maritime music festivals, list of opera festivals, and in some cases list of folk festivals.
Note this list includes festivals that are annual unless otherwise listed. Festivals which were notable, producing radio-broadcasts and recordings, but now defunct, are listed with an indent at the end of each country listing; for example Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, Germany. Festival Opera Barocca
Brisbane Baroque
Resonanzen Konzerthaus, Vienna.
Trigonale Festival der Alten Musik, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia. Sept.
Internationale Barocktage, Stift Melk. May/June.
Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. July/August.
Donaufestwochen im Strudengau. July/August
Festival de Chiquitos
Festival van Vlaanderen, section Musica Antiqua Bruges, July/August
Laus Polyphoniae - Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerp August
Festival van Vlaanderen, Gent. Sept/October.
Festival de Musique Ancienne en Wallonie
Baroque Music at Chateau of Chimay, Hainaut.
Festival Les Nuits de Septembre - Festival de Wallonie, Liège
Festival de música colonial brasileira e música antiga. July.
Montreal Baroque. June.
Vancouver Early Music Festival. August.
Pacific Baroque Festival, Victoria, B.C., February/March
Lameque International Baroque Music Festival, July
Rovigno Baroque Music Festival
Varaždin Baroque Evenings (Varaždinske barokne večeri), Baroque Festival since 1971.
Dubrovnik Summer Festival (Dubrovačke ljetne igre), since 1950.
Korkyra Baroque Festival (Korčulanski barokni festival).
Musical Evenings in St Donat (Glazbene večeri u sv. Donatu), since 1960.
Festival of early music at Český Krumlov
Letní slavnosti staré hudby (Summer festivities of early music), Prague.
Opera Barocca, Prague.
Summer School of Early Music Prachatice
Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival. October–November.
Finland
BRQ Vantaa. August.
Sastamala Gregoriana
Festival d'Ambronay, Ambronay. Since 1980.
Festival de Beaune July.
Festival de l'Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud Abbey. Since 1975.
Festival de Musique Ancienne de Saint Sevin, Saint Sevin. August.
Musiques à la Chabotterie, Vendée. Since 1997.
Marseille March.
Nantes Spring. May/June
Musique ancienne, Maguelone, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone June.
Haut-Jura June.
Aix-en-Provence Festival July.
Le Festival Renaissances, Bar-le-Duc. July.
Musique ancienne de Callas, Callas, Var. July.
Musique et Mémoire, Faucogney-et-la-Mer. July.
Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet. Le Thoronet Abbey
Festival de musique de Conques. July–August.
Festival Baroque de Tarentaise, Albertville. August.
Le Festival International de Musique Ancienne de Simiane, Simiane-la-Rotonde. August.
Festival de Sablé, Sablé-sur-Sarthe. August
Academie Bach, Arques-la-Bataille. Aug.
Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Auvergne. Aug-Sept.
Festival baroque de Pontoise. Sept-Oct.
Festival de Lanvellec. Oct.
Marseille Autumn. Oct- Dec.
Festival Paris Baroque, Paris. Nov-Dec.
Saint-Michel en Thiérache, Saint-Michel, Aisne.
Viola da gamba festival Asfeld.
Orléans Bach Festival
Bachwoche Ansbach, Ansbach summer.
Arolser Barockfestspiele. Bad Arolsen. May.
Bach-Biennale Weimar. Since 2008, biennual in July.
Festival alter Musik Bernau, Berlin.
Festival Güldener Herbst, Thuringia; in Weimar, Erfurt, Meiningen, Rudolstadt, Sondershausen, Eisenach, Kühndorf, Suhl and Molsdorf. October
Händelfestspiele
Handel Festival, Halle (June)
Handel Festival, Göttingen (May)
Handel Festival, Karlsruhe (Händelfestspiele Karlsruhe) (February)
Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage, Magdeburg
Tage Alter Musik, Berlin Oct.
Landshuter Hofmusiktage, Landshut
Bachtage, Potsdam
Bachfest Leipzig, Leipzig. June
Montalbâne festival of Medieval music, Schloss Neuenburg, Freyburg. June.
Musica Viva, Osnabrück Land. Schloss Bad Iburg, Schloss Gesmold, Schloss Königsbrück, various churches and monasteries. September.
Tage Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik.
Tage Alter Musik Herne, Herne. November.
Tage Alter Musik, Regensburg, Whitsun
Tage Alter Musik im Saarland (TAMiS), Saarbrücken, March/April
Sanssouci, Potsdam June
Thüringer Bachwochen, Thuringia. March/April.
Bayreuth Baroque Sept.
Zeitfenster - Biennale Alter Musik, Berlin. Biannual in April.
Internationales Heinrich-Schütz-Fest. Moves location, biannual.
Gottorfer Barockmusiktage, ran from 2002-2006.
Ireland
East Cork Early Music Festival
Galway Early Music Festival
Settimane barocche di Brescia, Brescia.
Festival di Cremona Claudio Monteverdi, Cremona. May.
FIMA - Festival di Musica Antica, Urbino. July.
FTMA - Festival Toscano di Musica Antica. Pisa.
Festival Galuppi, Venice.
Collegio Ghislieri di Pavia - Primavera Barocca. March–June. Since 2003.
Musica Antica a Magnano, Magnano July/Sept.
Mousiké - Festival di musica antica del Mediterraneo, Bari
Musica Antica in Sicilia, Associazione Antonio il Verso, Palermo. Dec.
Piccola Accademia di Montisi, Tuscany. Workshops for harpsichordists. July.
Garda Trentino International Early Music Weeks, Riva del Garda.
Major festivals with some early music events:
Stresa Festival. Stresa, Lake Maggiore. Some early music events.
Ravenna Festival. Some early music events. June/July.
Festival Grandezze e Meraviglie, Modena. Sept/Nov.
Bolzano Festival. Some early music events.Alessandro Scarlatti Festival, Palermo, Sicily, ran 1999-2002
Early Music Festival at Palace of Arts (Budapest). Since 2015, first quarter of the year.
Early Music Days at palace of Eszterhaza - Fertőd June/July, since 1984
Senās mūzikas festivāls, every July in the Rundāle Palace.
Netherlands
Early Music Festival, Utrecht.
Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival, Amsterdam.
Festival, Bergen.
Festival, Larvik.
St.Olav Festival, Trondheim.Ringve International Summer Course
Poland
Maj z Muzyką Dawną - May with Early Music, Wrocław
Jarosław Early Music Festival, Jarosław
Misteria Paschalia, Kraków. Easter
Mikołaj Radomski (Early Music Festival), Radom
West Coast Early Music Festival, Oeiras, Lisbon, Setúbal
SIMA - Série ibérica de Música Antiga, Castelo Branco
Bucharest Early Music Festival, Bucharest
Miercurea Ciuc Early Music Festival, Miercurea Ciuc
Sankt Petersburg International Early Music Festival, Saint Petersburg
Belgrade International Early Music Festival
"Dni starej hudby" - Days of early music, Bratislava.
Radovljica Early Music Festival, Radovljica, Velesovo and Ljubljana. August.
Seviqc Brežice – Festival Brezice, Brežice.
Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona, Barcelona, since 1977.
Festival de Música Antigua Iberoamericana "Domingo Marcos Durán". Cáceres.
Festival de Música Antigua de Daroca, Zaragoza, since 1979. August.
Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla, Seville.
Festival de Música Antigua, Gijón.
Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza. Úbeda and Baeza since 1997.
Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada
Música Antigua Aranjuez, Aranjuez.
Musica Antigua Aracena, Aracena.Trobadories d'en Guillem de Bergueda, Berga, Berguedà. Named after Guilhem de Berguedan. ran 2006-2007
Festival de Música Antigua de Sant Martí Vell, Gironès.
Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Xàtiva, Valencia
Palladium Baroque. Malmö. Feb.
Stockholm Early Music Festival. June.
Drottningholm Palace Theatre August.
Göteborg International Organ Academy. August.
Söderköpings Gästabud. Medieval fayre in Söderköping. Sept.
Trollhättans TIDIG MUSIK-dagar. Early music days in Trollhättan. May.
Switzerland
Early Music Festival - La Folia. Rougemont. May/June.
Festival Alte Musik Zürich. March.
Nox Illuminata, Basel, cf. Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
Festival Bach de Lausanne. Oct/Nov.
Festival Musikdorf Ernen. Ernen, Switzerland. July.
Birmingham Early Music Festival.
Brighton Early Music Festival, Oct/Nov.
English Bach Festival (ran from 1963 to 2009)
Leicester Early Music Festival. June.
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, London. May.
York Early Music Festival, July.
Greenwich Early Music Festival. Since 2001. Three-day festival and instrument fair. November.
London Handel Festival. Feb-April.
Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival, Yorkshire, May.
Spitalfields Festival, London. June.
Cotswold Early Music Festival, Cirencester. June.
Edinburgh International Festival, some early music events. Aug/Sept.
American Bach Soloists Festival & Academy. San Francisco, California. Since 2010.
Amherst Early Music Festival. New London, Connecticut.
Bloomington Early Music Festival, Indiana
Boston Early Music Festival.
Carmel Bach Festival, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Indianapolis Early Music Festival. Since 1966.
Madison Early Music Festival, Madison, Wisconsin. Since 2000.
New York Early Music Celebration, New York City. Since 2004.
Piccolo Spoleto Festival Early Music Series, Charleston, South Carolina.
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Santa Cruz, California.
Texas Toot - The Texas Early Music Festival. Workshops.
Twin Cities Early Music Festival and Baroque Instrumental Program. Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Since 2014.
Washington Early Music Festival], Washington, D.C.
