Rued Langgaard Festival

Thank you for this year, and we look forward to seeing you again September 2–5, 2027, with the theme “French Colors”!

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Unique experiences

Rued Langgaard Festival wants to give the audience a unique experience at concerts, events and talks through different concert formats, lighting, conversations, stories and presentations that give a deeper insight into the music and the composers’ lives. And hopefully make the festival experience deeper and longer lasting.

Theme of the Rued Langgaard Festival 2027

French Colors

At the Rued Langgaard Festival 2027, we’re heading to France from September 2–5, 2027.

With the theme “French Colors,” we pay tribute to French culture and music around the turn of the century, featuring the composers Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc, Lili Boulanger, Erik Satie, and Rued Langgaard.

Debussy’s opera “Pelléas and Mélisande” will be presented in a staged production.

We look forward to welcoming you to “French Colors”

The program will be updated on the website starting in January 2027.

Reunion with Rued Langgard Festival 2025

Welcome to Rued Langgaard Festival 2026

In 2026, the Rued Langgaard Festival focuses on Sweden through the music of Elfrida Andrée, Ture Rangström and Rued Langgaard.

And you can already buy partout tickets here

Tickets for the festival concerts can be purchased from mid-April 2026.

Rued Langgaard Festival 2026 offers no less than 2 orchestral concerts, 3 symphonies by Rued Langgaard and immersion in the Swedish music of composers Ture Rangström and Elfrida Andrée.

Rued Langgaard Festival 2026 has Sweden as its theme. With a focus on Swedish music and culture, the festival presents music by composers Ture Rangström, Elfrida Andrée and Rued Langgaard, who was inspired by Sweden in three of his symphonies.

With Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, led by Thomas Dausgaard, and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra with star soprano Christina Nilsson, symphonic music will be fired up in Ribe.

Also in 2026, the Nightingale String Quartet will perform two of Langgaard’s quartets linked to the house Rosengården in Kyrkhult in Blekinge, where Langgaard stayed during the summer. The quartet will also perform a new string quartet by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen, who has been inspired by some of the themes that connect Rued Langgaard with his great love, Dora From.

Dora reappears in the musical performance ‘Summer 1913’, which will be performed in an extended version with Esbjerg Ensemble in Sct. Catharinæ Church.

In addition, the festival continues into nature, when you can experience a musical staging of the moorland area Tange Bakker just outside Ribe. Here, folk and jazz musicians will interpret Rued Langgaard’s piano classic ‘Summer Vacation in Blekinge’.

Once again this year, you can also buy food tickets at Ribe Pakhus, which will be reinterpreting Langgaard’s favorite dishes – inspired from Sweden, among other places.

Experience Swedish music and culture in Ribe and look forward to hearing some of the country’s best musicians and artists perform four days of music, readings and artistic experiences from September 3-6, 2026.

We look forward to seeing you!