In the middle of the picturesque idyll of Austria’s most Eastern county Burgenland the Marktgemeinde Lockenhaus is located at the foot of the mountain Geschriebenstein about 100 km South of Vienna.
Before the birth of Christ, the area was part of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum and was part of the surrounding area of ​​the Celtic hilltop settlement on the Schwarzenbacher Burgberg.
During the time of the Roman Empire, today's Lockenhaus was in the province of Pannonia. The first documented mention of the community of Leuka can be found as early as 1200.
Surrounded by the wooded landscape of the Günser Mountains, the market town of Lockenhaus, founded in 1492, combines a turbulent history with a lot of culture and tradition.
The place, like the entire Burgenland, belonged to Hungary (German West Hungary) until 1920/21. Since 1898, the Hungarian place name Léka had to be used due to the Budapest government's Magyarization policy. After the end of the First World War, German Western Hungary was awarded to Austria in the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon in 1919 after tough negotiations.
Since 1921, Lockenhaus has belonged to the then newly founded federal state of Burgenland.

For over four decades, the world's best in chamber music has gathered in Lockenhaus at the beginning of summer.
When friends make music with friends for friends, then you have arrived in Lockenhaus! The basic principle is the joy of music, of trying things out together, of being together and of the openness of encounters.