KAPELL MASTER
"The Dresden orchestra is indisputably the most beautiful, the wind instruments are all ideal and have a pp that is simply fabulous," says the enthusiastic Richard Strauss. On January 10, 1890, just a few weeks after the Weimar premiere, his »Don Juan« was included in a Staatskapelle concert program for the first time. Adolf Hagen was responsible for the performance at that time, but later Strauss himself took the podium several times in his »love Dräsdner«, for example with his »Alpine Symphony« dedicated to the band. Hector Berlioz also presented his own compositions as a concert conductor in Dresden: he made his debut in 1843 with, among other things, the »Symphonie fantastique«.
As part of the »Richard Strauss Days in the Semperoper«
