4–30 August
The death of Hugo von Hofmannsthal on 15 July marked a decisive turning point in the Festival’s early history. The Festival nevertheless managed to take place, albeit with a smaller programme. For the first time the concert series could boast of a world première: Peter Cornelius’s Stabat mater. The Vienna Philharmonic paid obeisance to another of the Festival’s founders with a new Der Rosenkavalier and a special Richard Strauss concert under the baton of Clemens Krauss. Attention was drawn by the debut of Hans Knappertsbusch, who led the Philharmonic in a performance of works by Mozart, de Falla, Franckenstein and Beethoven.

1929: Richard Mayr singing Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier.
New production
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni
C: Franz Schalk
D: Lothar Wallerstein
Ds: Oskar Strnad
Festspielhaus
New production
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier
C: Clemens Krauss
D: Lothar Wallerstein
Ds/Cs: Alfred Roller
Festspielhaus
Revivals: Jedermann, Fidelio
9 orchestral concerts, 1 chamber concert, 2 lied recitals, 5 serenades, 4 concerts of sacred music, 2 church concerts, 1 concert academy
Details of the several years:
1920,
1921,
1922,
1923,
1924,
1925,
1926,
1927,
1928,
1929,
1930,
1931,
1932,
1933,
1934,
1935,
1936,
1937