Hello, we will be in Budapest for a week in September. I love pipe organs and would like to hear the one in St. Stephen's Basilica. I believe the concerts only happen on Mondays, and yet I can't find a website to purchase them in advance. I did, however, find a 3rd party website where I can order tickets for Wednesday morning where they provide a presentation of the organ and an abbreviated concert of only 20 minutes. Is anyone on here from Budapest and can help me find a link for purchasing tickets to the full Monday concerts? If none are happening in September, would you know if advance tickets are suggested for the Wednesday morning presentation/concerts?
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Republic of Texas / U.S.A. / Magyarország / Budapest
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I had some friends in town last week, and they asked the same question. The best i could find for buying tickets is: https://www.budapestopera-tickets.com/en/events/classical-concerts-3
So we all went to the Basilica for the organ concert. To my surprise, it was very, very good.
EDIT: The concert was Friday 9 May at 8pm.
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OP
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Mr E, so did they play the big pipe organ or their "regular" organ? And was the church full such that advance tickets would be recommended?
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Republic of Texas / U.S.A. / Magyarország / Budapest
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Both organs, a singer and a guy on a horn. Pretty full. My friends got us the seats at the front. It was a god idea.
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TX, USA
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I found this for schedules
https://bazilikabudapest.hu/en/allando-koncertek/
with tickets available from
https://www.organconcert.hu/hu/events/penteki-orgonakoncertek-110/var/ri-0.l-L2/ which does not seem to work or
https://concertsinbudapest.com/en/events/2025-6-18#event-start, which does seem to work.
I have been to one of the Monday concerts and they are on the basilica website but not the concert promoter website.
HERE seems to be the link!
https://www.bazilika.jegy.eu/
I got to the page to pay for a Monday ticket in September. Interesting that because of placement, i had to turn my IPad vertical to get to the Add to Cart button.
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Republic of Texas / U.S.A. / Magyarország / Budapest
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I found the tickets and this is excatly the one we went to: https://organconcert.jegy.hu/ticketsearch?lang=en
Here is some video of the same concert (I believe) that we saw: https://www.facebook.com/organconcertbudapest/videos/1423295925693761/ and this looks like the marketing video for it, but it doesnt show the big pipe organ being played .... and it was ... several times. https://youtu.be/EYCasuZvyjE?si=EsTgtmZ_hozSkecV