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Antonio Salieri was court composer in Vienna when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart came to town in 1781. With his casual manners and high spirits, Mozart constantly crossed the boundaries of social conventions. But his compositions, with their brilliant perfection, testify to his great talent. Salieri felt insulted by the boy prodigy and began a personal battle with Mozart. He tried to sabotage Mozart's career through intrigues and rumors. In the process, Salieri found himself in an inner conflict between admiration for Mozart's music and his own jealousy.

Johannes Brahms's Fifth Symphony - as conductor Otto Klemperer jokingly described Arnold Schönberg's arrangement of Brahms' piano quartet - is on the chief conductor's desk for the February concert. At Klemperer's suggestion, Schönberg arranged this chamber music for orchestra in 1937. " The arrangement sounds so beautiful that you don't even want to listen to the original quartet anymore ," said Klemperer after the premiere in Los Angeles. " All I had to do was transfer this sound to the orchestra and that's all I did ," explained Schönberg. His intention was to stick strictly to Brahms' style and not to go further than he himself would have gone had he been alive today .

Rostock's chief conductor Marcus Bosch will put down his baton this Sunday morning and will be cooking together with guests in the Kunsthalle's showroom. Two culinary courses will be created and served to the audience. But musical delights can also be experienced while the menu simmers in pots and pans. The Kunsthalle will be happy to accept your registration for this unique musical and culinary morning by calling 0381-4404 0515 or by email to: info@kh-rostock.de.

The music of the Frenchman Francis Poulenc is playfully light and dance-like, often with wit and satire, yet varied and of different characteristics. He deliberately calls his four-movement composition a sinfonietta rather than a symphony, thus removing the heaviness from the terminology. Poulenc strings together colorful pieces and creates surprising twists.