The same is true for audiences: 10,000 friends of music visit each year, to hear classical music in the most beautiful setting imaginable. Around 800 performances per season provide them with a programme that is richly alluring in its diversity. The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde itself hosts no less than 60 concert series. The spectrum ranges from projects for children to the great symphonies, from chamber music to alternative musical forms, and from early music to the contemporary arts.