Since May 23, this magnificent collection can once again be admired at the KBR museum, immersing visitors in the intellectual, cultural, and artistic world of our region from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. The Polyphonic Masters project places particular emphasis on the musical traditions cultivated at the Habsburg-Burgundian court, with a special focus on Franco-Flemish polyphony.

The Alamire Foundation is playing a central role in the development of a new polyphonic layer in the KBR museum. An innovative sound installation, custom-designed for the late-Gothic Nassau Chapel, was developed based on the Alamire Foundation's ongoing scientific research into the layering of polyphonic music, conducted in the high-tech sound laboratories of its Library of Voices. Four masterpieces from the exhibited Alamire manuscripts are brought to life: two polyphonic settings of the hymn O salutaris hostia from the Occo Codex, the seven-voice Proch dolor from the chansonnier of Margaret of Austria, and Matthaeus Pipelare's motet Memorare mater Christi from the choirbook for the Seven Sorrows. For each of these works, the individual vocal lines are spatially distributed throughout the chapel, allowing for an analytical deconstruction of the polyphonic texture. This spatialized listening experience enables visitors to engage with the music not only as historically transmitted in the beautiful manuscripts from the KBR collection, but also within the unique acoustic context of the Nassau Chapel.

More information and tickets can be found on the KBR museum website.