In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the salons were a social meeting place for merchants, intellectuals, artists, etc., which offered the opportunity to discuss the topics of the day in a private, bourgeois setting in the summer resort of the Salzkammergut. In the salons, women in particular, the salonniere, had their political role: they were the only stage for women to actively and creatively participate in political, intellectual and artistic life. The private setting also facilitated free exchange and encounters between different classes. This cultural wealth was directly suppressed by the wars: salons in the sense of large literary, artistic or political circles became rare and almost completely disappeared after the Second World War.
Transience – The eternal struggle for recognition
22/10/22, 19.00, post office building Bad Ischl
The theme is the revival of forgotten music and the communication of forgotten fates, especially from the National Socialist era. Marietta Kratz, deputy concertmaster of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, together with her orchestra colleagues Laura Escanilla and Valentin Priebus and Henning Lucius, lecturer at the Lübek University of Music and MNT Rostock, will give a voice to the expelled and forgotten composers. The author and project manager Benno Ure will host the evening.
Ensemble: Marietta Kratz, violin – Laura Escanilla, viola – Valentin Priebus, violoncello – Henning Lucius, piano
Henning Lucius, piano – Benno Ure, moderator
Music in exile – Bösendorfer Artist Pavel Kachnov
28/10/22, 19.00, post office building Bad Ischl
Bösendorfer ar`st Pavel Kachnov, born in Kiev, Ukraine, deals intensively with the events of today. He endeavours to bring works by many creative, contemporary and unknown composers to the stage with the background of the forced abandonment of their homeland, be it for existential or political reasons. On the one hand, the programme deals with Ukrainian and displaced or emigrated composers.
When music becomes home…
27/10/23, 19.00, post office building Bad Ischl
Survival and downfall, love and betrayal, winners and losers: in times of oppression and
oppression and persecution, many musicians leave their homeland and never return.
never return. Their fight for life and recognition is also a fight for their music. It is
the only thing they have left. It becomes their home, each in their own way.
Johannes Fleischmann, Justus Zeyen and Benno Ure use music and lyrics to transport us back to the
the first half of the twentieth century, in times of exile.
