Concertgebouw
In Concertgebouw once stood the Royal Concertgebouw, a Dutch “concert building” whose name became synonymous with top-tier acoustics. The hall was designed by Adolf Leonard van Gendt, who drew inspiration from the Gewandhaus in Leipzig—built two years earlier and destroyed in 1943. Construction began in 1883 on pasture land outside the city in Nieuwer-Amstel, a municipality that later became Amstelveen in 1964. Engineers installed 2,186 wooden piles, each 12 to 13 metres long, before the building was completed in late 1886; municipal work then delayed the grand opening. The Concertgebouw opened on 11 April 1888 with an inaugural concert featuring 120 musicians and a chorus of 500 singers, performing works by Wagner, Handel, Bach, and Beethoven. Its resident orchestra began there on 3 November 1888. …
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