The Kissinger Sommer is a classical music festival held every year in the summer in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Southern Germany.

After the fall of the iron curtain the festival turned to a world-wide view with partner-countries in whole Europe, North America and China.

Instead of partner countries, there are now main topics, starting in 2017 with the motto "1830 – Romantic Revolution"[10][11] and followed in 2018 by "1918 – emergence of the modern age".

[14] From the beginning the festival is also a place for contemporary composers like Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Edison Denisov, Aribert Reimann or Wolfgang Rihm.

1 for violin and orchestra by Gediminas Gelgotas in 2018[21] and in 2019 a new version of the opera "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Damian Scholl [de].

Among them are Martin Helmchen, Nikolai Tokarev, Kirill Gerstein, Igor Levit, Alice Sara Ott and Kit Armstrong.