Freundeskreis Concert
Freundeskreis Concert
Paavo Järvi Music Director
Julia Kleiter Sopran
Wiebke Lehmkuhl Alt
Maximilian Schmitt Tenor
Christof Fischesser Bass
Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Philipp Ahmann Einstudierung
Kurzeinführung
21. May 2027, 19.00 Uhr
Konzertfoyer
Remaining tickets for non-members available from approx. 3 weeks before the concert. Members will receive an invitation.
Beethoven's "Missa solemnis" was first performed (in part) in Vienna's Kärntnerthortheater in 1824, on the same evening that his Symphony No. 9 was premiered. Even today, this work is performed almost exclusively in concert halls: although it is a solemn mass, it goes beyond the liturgical framework. Although Beethoven studied the mass text and older settings intensively, he did not compose this work for a pious community, but for the Viennese public. He wanted to use all the means at his disposal to "awaken religious feelings and make them last", as he put it in a letter. The fact that one reviewer subsequently praised his "divine musical art" is perfectly fitting.