What if your next concert was held in one of Paris's most famous museums? The Louvre regularly organizes musical events. Find out more about the big musical events coming up.
The Musée du Louvre is well known for its paintings, sculptures and other exceptional works... But did you know that it's also a venue for live performances and music? Concerts are regularly organized in the Auditorium and in the museum's permanent collections, to bring this cultural center to life in a whole new way.
Imagine: instruments, voices coming together, magical music soaring amidst the art treasures on display in the Louvre Museum. It's hard to imagine a more enchanting experience for culture lovers.
Throughout the year, the famous Parisian institution organizes shows and concerts with renowned artists. These musical encounters are an opportunity to discover the museum in a new way, and to discover a new dialogue between the works, and stronger emotions, heightened by the power of the musicians and singers.
Would you like to take advantage of this program? Get out your diary, here's what's in store for you at the Musée du Louvre. The museum invites you to enjoy musical events linked to the exhibitions scheduled for the coming months. An original way to extend your visit to the Louvre!
Upcoming concerts at the Musée du Louvre :
- Une Révolution en musique
October 22 to December 5, 2025
In conjunction with the "Jacques-Louis David" exhibition
Beyond the political upheavals we know about, David's career corresponded to a period, both rich and troubled, of profound change in all artistic fields. Music, of course, was no exception to this new era, and this concert series offers an opportunity to explore some of the works of late 18th- and early 19th-century composers who are still too little known, but who may well have influenced the whole of Europe in the great movement to propagate the ideals and hopes that 1789 gave rise to.
Instrumental symphonies, fashionable opera arias, revolutionary hymns - the genres intersect in this cycle featuring the finest French ensembles playing on period instruments, such as Les Talens Lyriques and Les Musiciens du Louvre.
- Around the "Carracci Drawings" exhibition
A palace in Rome: Sébastien Daucé and his ensemble Correspondances
January 7, 2026, 8pm
At the very moment when Annibale Carracci was painting the frescoes in the Farnese Gallery, Rome, like the rest of the Italian peninsula, was undergoing a veritable musical revolution. Renaissance polyphony gradually gave way to Baroque music, and new vocal genres such as opera, cantata and oratorio took off. Great specialists in this period, Sébastien Daucé and his ensemble Correspondances take us back to the effervescence of the Eternal City with an original musical evening, as it might have taken place in a princely or episcopal palace in Rome at the beginning of the seicento.
- Exceptional recital
Parallel universes: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
February 13, 2026
Since his seminal encounter with Pierre Boulez, who appointed him to the Ensemble Intercontemporain when he was just nineteen, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard has rubbed shoulders with all the great masters of today's music. This exceptional recital at the Louvre gives him the opportunity to present Univers parallèles, a suite of pieces inspired by the museum. Rembrandt, Poussin, Chardin and Vermeer resonate with the music of Wolfgang Rihm, Gérard Pesson, Hugues Dufourt and Philippe Manoury.
Also at the heart of this concert is the singular figure of Gÿorgy Kurtag, who will celebrate his centenary in 2026, and whose works Pierre-Laurent Aimard has accompanied for decades.
- Musiques du corps et de l'âme
Around the "Michelangelo / Rodin" exhibition
April 15 to May 30 2026
Next spring, the Louvre is organizing a meeting between two of the greatest figures in the history of sculpture, with the Michelangelo / Rodin exhibition. Confronting eras and styles, this concert cycle extends the questions posed in the various sections of the exhibition around the relationship to the Antique, the non finito, or the representation of the Body and Soul, through works by Roland de Lassus, Claudio Monterverdi, Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, and contemporary figures such as Olga Neuwirth.
A brilliant young generation of musicians will be honored with a recital by pianist Joseph Moog, an evening of melodies with Cyrille Dubois, and appearances by the Les Métaboles choir and the Les Apaches ensemble.
Book your ticket now, and enjoy a magical moment immersed in beauty and art!
