Mar 12, 2023 | Season 2023/24
“Every ending is a new beginning” Anton Bruckner and the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. This close connection, manifested during Bruckner’s lifetime, not least through his work as a professor at the Conservatory of the Society and the award...
Mar 12, 2023 | Season 2023/24
How the sparks of the gods came into music On 7 May 1824, an epoch-defining event took place in Vienna: the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde celebrates this great moment in music history in May 2024, with performances of...
Mar 12, 2023 | Season 2023/24
Brahms | Levit: Knowing Love Both are at home in the Musikverein: Johannes Brahms, almost a kind of patron saint and constantly present through the priceless Brahms collection that he bequeathed to the Musikverein. And Igor Levit, most recently portrait artist of the...
Mar 12, 2023 | Season 2023/24
Musikverein Festival: Courage! 2023/24 “I believe that art does not come from being able, but from having to”: this is how Arnold Schoenberg said it in 1910. Three years later, on 31 March 1913, this necessity, i.e. the inner necessity of artistic...
Mar 11, 2023 | Season 2023/24
Themes and festivals in the season 2023/24 © Wolf-Dieter Grabner Musikverein Festival: Courage! 4 May to 13 June 2024 Once again, an object from the priceless collections of the Musikverein provides impulse and inspiration for the Musikverein Festival: an original...
Mar 11, 2023 | Season 2023/24
Between silence and sound Silence and sound: Rebecca Saunders’ music creates tension between these two poles. In 2023/24, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna will focus on the oeuvre of the Berlin-based British composer – from small-scale works to a...
