{"id":26914,"date":"2026-08-28T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/?p=26914"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:11:41","slug":"neil-mac-gregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/neil-mac-gregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rheingau Literatur Festival: Neil MacGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About German Music in London<\/strong><br \/>\nWho could forget Neil MacGregor\u2019s appearance at last year\u2019s festival? The internationally renowned cultural historian offered a distinctly British perspective on Germany, captivating the audience in the process. Of course, we invited him back right away\u2014we simply had to, given this year\u2019s \u201cUnited Kingdom\u201d theme at the Rheingau Music Festival. For the first time, its program will intersect with that of the Literature Festival, its \u201clittle sister,\u201d as Neil MacGregor will share with us his great passion for German composers and the London church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Concerts featuring the music of Handel have a long tradition there, and the church is right next to the National Gallery, which MacGregor led for fifteen years. The perfect setting for a spectacular evening of storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Neil MacGregor was director of the National Gallery in London (1987\u20132002) and director of the British Museum (2003\u20132015). From 2015 to 2018, he served as artistic director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. In 2015, he was awarded the Goethe Medal and the German National Prize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neil MacGregor in conversation with Andreas Platthaus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rheingau-musik-festival.de\/programm-karten\/programmuebersicht\/detail\/magdalene-ho-klavier\">Booking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About German Music in London Who could forget Neil MacGregor\u2019s appearance at last year\u2019s festival? The internationally renowned cultural historian<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/neil-mac-gregor\/\" title=\"ReadRheingau Literatur Festival: Neil MacGregor\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2148,"featured_media":26916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-celebrations","category-rheingau-musik-festival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26918,"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions\/26918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schloss-johannisberg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}