Gothenburg Concert Hall
concert hall
Gothenburg Concert Hall (Swedish: Göteborgs konserthus) is a concert hall located in Gothenburg, Sweden, built in 1935. The architect for the facility was Nils Einar Ericsson, a major advocate of Functionalism. However, the Concert Hall has a Neo-Classical exterior look, due to the surrounding area at Götaplatsen where the building is placed—the Art Museum and the City Theatre are solid classically designed buildings as well and were built before the Concert Hall. In contrast to the exterior, the Concert Hall's interior is modernistic.
The main auditorium's plain shaped walls are clad in yellowish-red maple veneer and there are 1,300 seats. There is also a smaller concert hall, Stenhammarsalen, for chamber concerts. The acoustic qualities of Gothenburg Concert Hall have given it a reputation well outside the Swedish borders; Deutsche Grammophon has used the Concert Hall as a studio for a number of records, for example.
A number of progressive rock bands (among others Yes and Roxy Music) have also performed at the Gothenburg Concert Hall.
The Concert Hall is the home stage of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q657966. VIAF identifies the subject as 305956747. Authority coordinates are 57.697, 11.979. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1935.
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