Per the requests from the acoustic engineer, the architect designed the hall in a free form with curved convex and concave walls, to spread the sound widely.

[3] As of 2022, costs of c. €60M were mostly covered by private sponsors, with support from Kronberg,[4] the Hochtaunuskreis district, the state of Hesse and the federal government.

[5][7] The opening was celebrated with a festival of 24 concerts, including students and soloists such as Gidon Kremer, András Schiff and Tabea Zimmermann.

It was designed by the Berlin architect Volker Staab, who collaborated with the acoustic engineers Martijn Vercammen and Margriet Lautenbach from the Dutch consultancy Peutz.

[2][3][5] Per the requests from the acoustic engineer, the architect designed the hall in a free form with curved convex and concave walls, to spread the sound widely.

The curved space is reminiscent of the shape of a stringed instrument, and musicians said after the first rehearsal that "it felt and sounded as if you were playing inside a violin" ("es fühle sich an und klinge so, als ob man im Inneren einer Geige spiele").