Today, the county of Euskirchen is the responsible body in cooperation with the support association of Steinfeld Abbey.
The festival's High Mass (Festhochamt) cultivates the tradition of the missa solemnis, the church service accompanied ceremonially by choir and orchestra.
Until 1963, the artistic direction was in the hands of Aachen Cathedral's director of music and founder, Professor Theodor Bernhard Rehmann (1895-1963).
The afternoon oratorio concert was for many years in the hands of Bonn's Bach Choir, and its conductor Professor Gustav Classens.
In the 1970s and 1980s, other renowned concert choirs from Cologne, Mainz and Düsseldorf also performed at the Eifel Music Festival.