In the sound of history
With the Wien Museum, the city's memory has just been reopened. Now various ensembles are questioning history for perspectives for the present and the future in the chamber music series of the Wiener Symphoniker. Experience sensual history lessons about the exhibitions, where the guided tours are included in the concert!
Crimes committed during the Nazi era and the topic of "robbery and restitution" are examined with works by persecuted musicians such as Viktor Ullmann and Karajan teacher Richard Stöhr, while the occupation period is explored with compositions by Igor Stravinsky and the Viennese Schönberg biographer Egon Wellesz, who was expelled to England. The chamber music series takes a musically diverse look at the coexistence of Judaism and Islam in Vienna, and the ensemble "Les Lilas" sheds light on the city's "melting pot" with gypsy jazz and lively swing. Viennese classical music itself becomes a historical theme, and with the motto "Winter in Vienna", the Symphonic Schrammel Quintet Vienna not only puts Emil Waldteufel's skating waltz on the ice. They also ask how cold the Viennese winter will be in times of global warming. After the successful chamber music series in the Vienna National Library or the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the music now listens to history.
