Name: Martynas Levickis
Start: 2025-09-14T11:00:00
Location: Old Parish

Martynas Levickis

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Some of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions and studies have remained hidden from humanity or been forgotten – like his idea of ​​a portable organ. It wasn't until 1964 that a manuscript containing sketches surfaced in Madrid. According to these sketches, the 15th-century Italian polymath was working on a concept for a type of organetto (diatonic accordion). This was a revolutionary discovery, considering that the accordion's physical precursors were only dated to the beginning of the 19th century. However, there are no sources that prove that such an instrument based on da Vinci's ideas was ever built and used in practice. 500 years later, the charismatic, passionate musician Martynas Levickis pays homage to Leonardo da Vinci's early vision and invites the audience in the Old Parish Church to take a musical journey through his beloved instrument, from its origins as a secret prototype to its present form.