Organization

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Altmark Festspiele

Conductor

Reinhard Seehafer

Orchestra

Czech National Symphony Orchestra

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Dudaryk Choir Lviv

Singer

Soprano

Marcelina Román

Contralto

Maria Zoi

Alto

Tenor

Siyabonga Maquungo

Bass

Arttu Kataja

Opening Concert 2024  Beethoven's Ninth in steel and sound - 200 years after the premiere

Stendal

Germany

Alstom Factory Hall

Opening Concert 2024  Beethoven's Ninth in steel and sound - 200 years after the premiere: Finlandia, Op. 26 Sibelius (+2 More)

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Concert

Finaldia Op.26

Snöfrid, op. 29

9th Symphony

Larissa Andrea Pereira

Approved

On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony was performed for the first time in Vienna. After the enthusiastic reaction of the premiere audience and further performances in London, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig and Berlin, Tokyo, Shanghai, Cape Town and Mumbai followed almost a century later. The manuscript of the work has been part of UNESCO's World Documentary Heritage since 2001.

 

Catharina von Schlegel was a hymn poet who lived in the Lutheran women's monastery in Köthen in what is now Saxony-Anhalt in the 18th century. Her most famous poem, “Still My Will,” was translated into English in 1855 by the Scottish poet Jane Borthwick. In the 1920s, this text was accompanied by the melody “Finlandia” by the composer Jean Sibelius and has since become one of the most famous songs in church music: “Be still, my soul”.

English

Opening Concert 2024 Beethoven's Ninth in steel and sound - 200 years after the premiere by Sibelius, Beethoven, From (2024/2024), Conductor Reinhard Seehafer, Alstom Factory Hall, Stendal, Germany

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