Name: In the Paradise of Music Artists
Start: 2025-05-10T15:00:00
Location: Palais Hirsch Schlossplatz

SWR Symphonieorchester

When the English music scholar Charles Burney walked through Schwetzingen in 1772, he found the place "entirely inhabited by a colony of musicians". Schwetzingen was and is indeed a place of music. This is what the event In the Paradise of Musicians aims to convey again this year: a tour through Schwetzingen's city center leads to the places where the court musicians of Elector Carl Theodor lived and worked. Students from the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim invite you to a short concert in the concert hall of the Palais Hirsch afterwards. 250 years ago, on August 13, 1775, the opera Alceste by Anton Schweitzer and Christoph Martin Wieland was the first German-language opera to be performed in the Schwetzingen Palace Theater. Elector Carl Theodor was particularly concerned with promoting the German language and its emancipation in science and culture. The court musicians of the Electorate of the Palatinate also began to set German texts to music. The short concert's program includes songs and arias by Anton Schweitzer, Ignaz Holzbauer, Georg Joseph Vogler and Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg. The paradisiacal afternoon ends with a glass of sparkling wine on Schwetzingen's castle square.