{{Short description|Contemporary music festival}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox music festival | name = ISCM World Music Days | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | genre = Contemporary music | dates = | location = worldwide | years_active = 1922–present | founders = | website = http://www.iscm.org | organizer = International Society for Contemporary Music }} The '''ISCM World Music Days''' is an annual contemporary music festival organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music, originally created in 1923 as the '''ISCM Festival''' as a means to support the most advanced composition tendencies.<ref>[http://www.visitljubljana.com/en/journalists/news/6214/detail.html?year_month=2003 The 80th anniversary of the ISCM World Music Days will be celebrated in Slovenia]{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}. visitljubljana.com (Official guide to Ljubljana and Centre Slovenia), 17 September 2003</ref><ref>[http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20121104_020 World Music Days]. De Standaard, 5 November 2012</ref> Each edition is held in a different location, and the programmes are organized by a jury after evaluating the submissions of each ISCM national section.
==Editions== [[File:Michael Daugherty et al at ISCM World Music Days 1982.jpg|thumb|György, Lukas and Vera Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow and Michael Daugherty ''(l.t.r.)'' at the 1982 ISCM World Music Days in Graz, Austria]]
{|style="font-size:90%" cellpadding="4" |-valign="top" | {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Venue |- | 1923 || {{flagicon|AUT}} Salzburg |- | 1924 || {{flagicon|CZE}} Prague and {{flagicon|AUT}} Salzburg |- | 1925 || {{flagicon|CZE}} Prague and {{flagicon|ITA|1861}} Venice |- | 1926 || {{flagicon|SWI}} Zürich |- | 1927 || {{flagicon|GER|Weimar}} Frankfurt |- | 1928 || {{flagicon|ITA|1861}} Siena |- | 1929 || {{flagicon|SWI}} Geneva |- | 1930 || {{flagicon|BEL}} Liège and Brussels |- | 1931 || {{flagicon|UK}} Oxford and London |- | 1932 || {{flagicon|AUT}} Vienna |- | 1933 || {{flagicon|NED}} Amsterdam |- | 1935 || {{flagicon|ITA|1861}} Florence |- | 1936 || {{flagicon|ESP|1931}} Barcelona |- | 1937 || {{flagicon|FRA}} Paris |- | 1938 || {{flagicon|UK}} London |- | 1939 || {{flagicon|POL}} Warsaw and Kraków |- | 1941 || {{flagicon|USA}} New York City (abbreviated festival) |- | 1942 || {{flagicon|USA}} Berkeley, California (abbreviated festival) |- | 1946 || {{flagicon|UK}} London |- | 1947 || {{flagicon|NED}} Amsterdam |- | 1948 || {{flagicon|ITA}} Palermo and Taormina |- | 1950 || {{flagicon|BEL}} Brussels |- | 1951 || {{flagicon|FRG}} Frankfurt |- | 1952 || {{flagicon|AUT}} Salzburg |- | 1953 || {{flagicon|NOR}} Oslo |- | 1954 || {{flagicon|ISR}} Haifa |- | 1955 || {{flagicon|FRG}} Baden-Baden |- | 1956 || {{flagicon|SWE}} Stockholm |- | 1957 || {{flagicon|SWI}} Zürich |- | 1958 || {{flagicon|FRA}} Strasbourg |- | 1959 || {{flagicon|ITA}} Rome |- |} | {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Venue |- | 1960 || {{flagicon|GER}} Cologne |- | 1961 || {{flagicon|AUT}} Vienna |- | 1962 || {{flagicon|UK}} London |- | 1963 || {{flagicon|NED}} Amsterdam |- | 1964 || {{flagicon|DEN}} Copenhague |- | 1965 || {{flagicon|ESP|1945}} Madrid |- | 1966 || {{flagicon|SWE}} Stockholm |- | 1967 || {{flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} Prague |- | 1968 || {{flagicon|POL}} Warsaw |- | 1969 || {{flagicon|FRG}} Hamburg |- | 1970 || {{flagicon|SWI}} Basel |- | 1971 || {{flagicon|UK}} London |- | 1972 || {{flagicon|AUT}} Graz |- | 1973 || {{flagicon|ISL}} Reykjavík |- | 1974 || {{flagicon|NED}} Rotterdam |- | 1975 || {{flagicon|FRA}} Paris |- | 1976 || {{flagicon|USA}} Boston |- | 1977 || {{flagicon|FRG}} Bonn |- | 1978 || {{flagicon|SWE}} Stockholm and {{flagicon|FIN}} Helsinki |- | 1979 || {{flagicon|GRE}} Athens |- | 1980 || {{flagicon|ISR}} Tel Aviv |- | 1981 || {{flagicon|BEL}} Brussels |- | 1982 || {{flagicon|AUT}} Graz |- | 1983 || {{flagicon|DEN}} Aarhus |- | 1984 || {{flagicon|CAN}} Toronto and Montreal |- | 1985 || {{flagicon|NED}} Netherlands |- | 1986 || {{flagicon|HUN|1957}} Budapest |- | 1987 || {{flagicon|FRG}} Cologne, Bonn and Frankfurt |- | 1988 || {{flagicon|Hong Kong}} Hong Kong |- | 1989 || {{flagicon|NED}} Amsterdam |- | 1990 || {{flagicon|SWI}} Zürich |- | 1991 || {{flagicon|NOR}} Oslo |- | 1992 || {{flagicon|POL}} Warsaw |- | 1993 || {{flagicon|MEX}} Mexico City |- | 1994 || {{flagicon|SWE}} Stockholm |- | 1995 || {{flagicon|GER}} Ruhr |} | {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Venue |- | 1996 || {{flagicon|DEN}} Copenhagen |- | 1997 || {{flagicon|KOR}} Seoul |- | 1998 || {{flagicon|UK}} Manchester |- | 1999 || {{flagicon|ROM}} Romania and {{flagicon|MDA}} Moldova |- | 2000 || {{flagicon|LUX}} Luxembourg |- | 2001 || {{flagicon|JPN}} Yokohama |- | 2002 || {{flagicon|Hong Kong}} Hong Kong |- | 2003 || {{flagicon|SVN}} Ljubljana |- | 2004 || {{flagicon|SWI}} Switzerland |- | 2005 || {{flagicon|CRO}} Zagreb |- | 2006 || {{flagicon|GER}} Stuttgart |- | 2007 || {{flagicon|Hong Kong}} Hong Kong |- | 2008 || {{flagicon|LIT}} Vilnius |- | 2009 || {{flagicon|SWE}} Visby, Växjö and Gothenburg |- | 2010 || {{flagicon|AUS}} Sydney |- | 2011 || {{flagicon|CRO}} Zagreb |- | 2012 || {{flagicon|BEL}} Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Leuven and Mons |- | 2013 || {{flagicon|SVK}} Košice, Bratislava and {{flagicon|AUT}} Vienna |- | 2014 || {{flagicon|POL}} Wrocław |- | 2015 || {{flagicon|SVN}} Slovenia |- | 2016 || {{flagicon|KOR}} Tongyeong |- | 2017 || {{flagicon|CAN}} Vancouver |- | 2018 || {{flagicon|PRC}} Beijing |- | 2019 || {{flagicon|EST}} Tallinn |- | 2020 || {{flagicon|NZL}} Auckland and Christchurch (rescheduled to 2022 to the COVID-19 pandemic) |- | 2021 || {{flagicon|PRC}} Shanghai and Nanning (cancelled due to COVID-19 travel restrictions) |- | 2022 || {{flagicon|NZL}} Auckland and Christchurch |- | 2023 || {{flagicon|ZAF}} South Africa |- | 2024 || {{flagicon|FRO}} Faroe Islands |- | 2025 || {{flagicon|POR}} Portugal |- | 2026 || {{flagicon|ROM}} Romania |} | {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Venue
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== External links == * [http://worldmusicdays2016.kr/ World Music Days 2016 Tongyeong] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926070925/http://worldmusicdays2016.kr/ |date=2015-09-26 }} * [http://bmmf.ccom.edu.cn/index.php/iscm/iscm_public/pid/61/id/62 Beijing Modern Music Festival 2018] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119121546/http://bmmf.ccom.edu.cn/index.php/iscm/iscm_public/pid/61/id/62 |date=2018-01-19 }} * [https://www.worldmusicdays2019.ee/en/ World Music Days 2019 Tallinn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525221334/https://www.worldmusicdays2019.ee/en/ |date=2022-05-25 }} * [https://www.iscm.org/ official website]
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