Anton Bruckner, known as the creator of enormous symphonic colossi, actually composed chamber music too! The 38-year-old wrote his C minor string quartet as a study project during his lessons with Otto Kitzler. It was only rediscovered in 1950 and premiered shortly afterwards. Bruckner, however, composed the string quintet between his work on the 5th and 6th symphonies after the Viennese conductor and violinist Joseph Hellmesberger had asked him to do so "repeatedly and urgently". The result was a pocket-sized symphony, as Bruckner managed to transfer his symphonic ideas to a small chamber ensemble. When Mozart settled in Vienna in 1781, he met a friend from his days in Salzburg: the horn player Joseph Leutgeb, for whom Mozart not only composed his horn quintet, but later also his four horn concertos. The doubling of the viola shifts the sound balance into the soft middle range and gives the horn quintet its sonorous sound.

Bruckner On His 200th Birthday

Künstlerhaus am Lenbachplatz

The ODEON Youth Symphony Orchestra has been the official patron orchestra of the Munich Philharmonic since 2010. For this youth concert, the "godchildren" play shoulder to shoulder with the professionals. The Munich Philharmonic's principal violist, Jano Lisboa, presents two romantic gems for viola and orchestra: the popular romance by Max Bruch and the romance for viola and piano by Ralph Vaughan Williams, which was only discovered after the composer's death and which Lisboa presents in an arrangement for viola and chamber orchestra. Anyone who travels has a story to tell - musically too! Antonín Dvořák incorporated influences from American music that he encountered during his stay in the US into his orchestral suite. To escape the cold English rainy weather, Edward Elgar spent the winter in Liguria in 1904. "In the South (Alassio)" was inspired by the Italian landscape, language and culture. Joel Sandelson, winner of the Salzburg Festival Conducting Competition, conducts this varied program, while Malte Arkona moderates with a mixture of humor and background knowledge.

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Viola in Horn Quintet by Mozart

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Viola in Romance for viola and piano by Williams

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Viola in String Quintet by Bruckner

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Viola in String Quartet by Bruckner

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