Description
The L'Auditori concert hall complex was designed by Rafael Moneo, one of the world's most famous architects. It opened in 1999 and has since become the center of Barcelona's musical life in education, training and research. L'Auditori has three concert halls with impeccable acoustics, each named after a Catalan musician: the 2,340-seat Sala Pau Casals symphony hall; Sala Oriol Martorell with 600 seats and Sala Tete Montoliu with 400 seats. The complex also houses the Museu de la Música, a music school, the Higher School of Music of Catalonia (ESMUC) and the premises of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona and the Nacional de Catalunya (OBC). All these spaces are arranged around a central courtyard, which houses one of the building's real gems: a monumental cubic glass lantern decorated with striped paintings by Pablo Palazuelo.