Palais des Fêtes
| Palais des Fêtes | |
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Façade on rue Sellénick seen in 2015
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 Location of Palais des Fêtes in Strasbourg
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| Former names | Sängerhaus |
| General information | |
| Type | Performance venue |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau, Beaux-Arts |
| Location | Strasbourg, France |
| Address | 5 rue Sellénick, 67000 Strasbourg |
| Coordinates | 48°35′27″N 7°44′57″E / 48.59083°N 7.74917°ECoordinates: 48°35′27″N 7°44′57″E / 48.59083°N 7.74917°E |
| Construction started | 1900 |
| Completed | 1903; 1921 |
| Inaugurated | 31 January 1903 |
| Renovated | 2012–2022 |
| Owner | City of Strasbourg |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect |
Joseph Müller Richard Kuder Paul Dopff |
The Palais des Fêtes (Festival Palace) is a music venue in the Neustadt district of Strasbourg, in the French department of the Bas-Rhin. Built for the "Male choral society" of Strasbourg (German: Strassburger Männergesangverein) in 1903, it has served as the principal concert hall of the city and home to the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg until 1975. It has been classified as a Monument historique since 2007.
Well known conductors such as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Charles Munch,Bruno Walter,Wilhelm Furtwängler,Herbert von Karajan,Karel Ančerl,Pierre Boulez and Lorin Maazel, among others, have all conducted guest concerts in the Palais.
The Palais des Fêtes was built as the Sängerhaus (singer's house) between 1901 and 1903, when Strasbourg was a German city and the capital of Alsace-Lorraine. It was one of the first buildings in Strasbourg to make use of reinforced concrete. Although the architects Joseph Müller (1863–??) and Richard Kuder (1852–1912) chose an Art Nouveau style for the building, the main auditorium (with a capacity of 1,080 seats) was decorated in a lavish Neo-Baroque style. The building also included a restaurant large enough to accommodate up to 300 guests. The inauguration concert took place on 31 January 1903. In 1904, the premises were already considered too small and a new story was added on the current rue de Phalsbourg, including a rehearsal room now called Salle Balanchine. A pipe organ was installed in the main hall in 1909. A work by builders Dalstein & Hærpfer, it was designed, like several other pipe organs in Strasbourg (for instance the choir pipe organ of Saint-Thomas church), according to principles by Albert Schweitzer.
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