Wiener Symphoniker / Wiener Singakademie / Popelka
200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
Tuesday
7
May
2024
19:30 – ca. 21:00
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
The first Ninth
On 7 May 2024, it will be exactly 200 years ago to the day that the premiere of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Vienna's Kärnertortheater marked the beginning of what could be called the mythification of the number 9. It became magical for later symphonists such as Bruckner and Mahler. Not achieving it meant failure. In fact, Beethoven himself found it very difficult to follow up his Eighth with another symphonic work. But what he then produced with his Ninth, after almost twelve years of intellectual rumination and brooding, was a gigantic creative tour de force, the shattering effect of which can still be understood today, even as a listener, in every gripping, stringent performance of the work. And such a performance is now undoubtedly imminent when Petr Popelka, designated chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, leads »his« orchestra.
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