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As Mayor of Sulzbach-Rosenberg, I am very proud and happy to welcome the Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival to our medieval town. We are located in Bavaria on the so called “Golden Street” between Nuernberg and Prag. Music has always played an important role in our town going back as far as the 17th Century, where at the court of Duke Christian August in the legendary “Gymnasium Illustre” Music was being taught and cultivated. This tradition is being continued at our two excellent Music Schools, the Municipal “Sing- und Musikschule” with its more than 700 Students and at the Professional College for Music, the Berufsfachschule fuer Musik.
We are looking forward to host this remarkable Music Festival, with its renowned Music Professors, their Master Class Students and the many Visitors from near and far. I am sure it will open a new chapter in the history of our town and will turn into one of the important music festivals in Germany. I am also looking forward to the chance it offers to expand our local tourism industry and to introduce our beautiful Bavarian region to many new visitors.
We wish the Festival much success and all participants new experiences, wonderful memories and a good time in our town as well as the enjoyment and appreciation of one of the most beautiful things in the world: MUSIC.
Viva la musica!
Gerd Geismann