Husum (
North Frisian:
Hüsem) is the capital of the
Kreis (district)
Nordfriesland in
Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany. The town was the birthplace of the novelist
Theodor Storm, who coined the epithet "the grey town by the sea". It is also the home of the annual international piano festival
Raritäten der Klaviermusik (Rarities of Piano Music) founded in 1986.