Author: Madeleine Fremuth

© Arnold Schönberg Center Wien

A cooperation between the Capital of Culture 2024, the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden, the Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna and the Exilarte Center of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Friday, October 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m
Johann Orth Hall 
Tuscany Congress
Gmunden

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Program:

5:00 p.m. Salon in conversation – Arnold Schönberg 
in the Johann Ort Hall, Toscana Congress Gmunden

Therese Muxeneder: “Dissonant idylls for Arnold Schönberg. “The anti-Semitic defense of modernity in the Salzkammergut”

Ulrike Anton: “Vilma von Webenau – Schönberg’s first student”

Gerold Gruber: “Music in exile in Los Angeles”

6:15 p.m. Exhibition tour Idyll for modernity – Arnold Schönberg on Lake Traunsee 
at Villa Toscana by Dr. Ulrike Anton (Director of the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna)

7:30 p.m. Musical Salon – Concert  
in the Johann Ort Hall, Toscana Congress Gmunden

In the 19th and 20th centuries, salons were popular private meeting places where artistic, scientific and political topics were discussed and people enjoyed culinary and musical delicacies. The Arnold Schönberg Salon seeks to pursue this experience and combines interesting lectures with artistic performances. Arnold Schönberg’s environment in Europe as well as in his exile in the USA/Los Angeles offers space for a wide range of works from the Second Viennese School and other, often opposing, stylistic expressions. In addition to Schönberg, works by Erich Zeisl, Vilma von Webenau, Walter Arlen and Erich Wolfgang Korngold will also be heard.

Contributors:

Josipa Bainac-Hausknecht | Mezzo-soprano
Catherina Lee | Violin
David Hausknecht | Piano
Gerold Gruber | Moderation

© Wolf Dieter Grabner

As part of the 20th Festival of Croatian Musicians in Vienna (July – October 2024), the concert is organized by the Platform for Culture, in cooperation with the Croatian Art Association Cristoforium and the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Vienna.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Music Association: Brahms Hall 
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 Vienna

Tickets here: https://tickets.musikverein.at/SelectSeats?ret=2&e=36842

The Festival of Croatian Musicians in Vienna has been promoting the Croatian concert scene for two decades and will continue this tradition in 2024. With an appealing and carefully put together program it will once again delight its loyal Viennese audience. 

On the occasion of this important anniversary, the renowned Zagreb soloists will appear in the Musikverein’s Brahms Hall and play a work by Marcel Tyberg, a composer whose estate recently arrived at the mdw’s Exilarte Center.

Marcel Tyberg (1893–1944) was an Austrian composer, conductor and organist. In 1927 Marcel Tyberg moved with his mother from Vienna to Abbazia, now Opatija in Croatia. In Croatia he became an important church musician and conductor. Faced with the threat of persecution, he entrusted his catalog of works to a friend, but was soon arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered on December 31, 1944. Despite his persecution by the Nazi regime, he left behind important compositions, including symphonies, piano sonatas and liturgical music. 

On the program: 

Marcel Tyberg: Sextet in F minor – 5th movement

Artists:

Ensemble Zagreb soloists

© Serena Nono „Figura“ (2019)

Music festival “Foreign Earth” is a project of the VIVA LA CLASSICA association! in cooperation with the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), “Neubau reminds” and the Exilarte Center of the mdw.  

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About the program: 

The festival is a homage to the work and life of the composers whose works were banned under the Nazi regime and defamed as “degenerate art” – a term that was used at the time to describe all forms of art that were considered undesirable in the Third Reich . VIVA LA CLASSICA! lets the music of Arnold Schönberg, Franz Waxman, Erich Zeisl, Ilse Weber, Viktor Ullmann and many other composers be heard again.

© Julia Wesely

NASOM New Austrian Sound of Music 2023/24 Artist: Harpist Elisabeth Plank presents the music from her hometown Vienna in March and April 2024 in the USA, including estates from the mdw’s Exilarte Center. The program takes you into impressive and at the same time delicate soundscapes, which are characterized by original compositions and arrangements by renowned composers such as Arnold Schönberg, Hans Gál and many others.

Concerts:

March 19, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., Austrian Cultural Forum, Washington D.C.

March 23, 2024 at 2:30 p.m., University of North Texas / Voertman Hall, Denton (TX)

March 24, 2024 at 6:00 p.m., American Harp Society Houston / Archway Gallery,Houston (TX)

March 29, 2024 at 8:30 p.m., Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington (IN)

March 30, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., University of Northern Kentucky / Greaves Concert Hall, Highland Heights (KY)

April 4, 2024 at 4:30 p.m., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Smith Hall, Urbana (IL)

April 6, 2024 at 1:00 p.m., Lyon & Healy Hall, Chicago (IL)

April 7, 2024 at 4:00 p.m., American Harp Society Philadelphia / Temple Lutheran Church (501 Brookline Blvd, Havertown, PA 19083), Philadelphia (PA)

April 9, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, NYC

Links:

https://www.acfdc.org/events/elisabeth-plank

https://www.musicaustria.at/the-new-austrian-sound-of-music-2023-2024/

© Exilarte

Friday, August 30, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Ballroom of the Art Nouveau Theater, Otto Wagner Areal
Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Vienna

Tickets: office@kammermusikfestival.wien

Since 2008, the aron quartet‘s “Chamber Music Festival Vienna” has been dedicated in particular to the performance of selected works by composers persecuted under the Nazi regime. Many of them had to emigrate, some were murdered in the Nazi extermination camps. The concert will feature the works of Walter Bricht, whose legacy is in the Exilarte Center. 

On the program: 

Quintet in A minor for piano and strings (1952)
selected songs: Prayer (from op.24), Elf (from op.28), Twilight Hour (from WoO.7), Elisabeth (from op.24)
from: 4 piano pieces for the left hand alone, Op. 30: No. 2 song without words

Artists:

aron quartet

Arabella Fenyves, soprano

David Hausknecht, piano

Welcome words: 

Dana Bracht, Gerold Gruber

© Amadeus Festival Vienna 2024

Saturday, June 29, 2024, 5 p.m.
Festival Bühne
Bastiengasse 36-38
1180 Vienna

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Artists:

Nadia Kalmykova, violin

Liuba Kalmykova, violin

Kasumi Yui, piano

Program:

M. Moszkovsky: Suite for 2 violins and piano op. 71 (20’)

H. Gál: Sonata for 2 violins and piano op. 96 (22’)

D. Shostakovich: 5 pieces for 2 violins and piano (10’)

P. De Sarasate: Navarra op. 33 (6′)

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Song evening with reading 

Songs by Erich Wolfgang Korngold are combined with a reading of letters related to the Salzkammergut from the book Dear Papa, how is you? The life of Erich Wolfgang Korngold in letters from the author Lis Malina. The evening is rounded off with an appealing supporting program with zither music and impressive photo projections.

Friday, August 23, 2024, 7 p.m.
Klostersaal Traunkirchen
Klosterplatz 1, 4801 Traunkirchen

Admission free!

Contributors:

Josipa Bainac, mezzo-soprano
Günter Haumer, baritone
David Hausknecht, piano
Lis Malina and Gerold Gruber, speakers 

Program: 

Songs by Erich Wolfgang Korngold