Donaueschingen Festival
After the war, the Society of Friends of Music was able to re-establish the festival under the name "Donaueschingen Festival of Contemporary Music". A cooperative agreement between the Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden and its orchestra shifted the program emphasis to larger orchestral works. In 1951, Olivier Messiaen and his student Pierre Boulez offered new compositions, along with older works by Hindemith and Béla Bartók.