Herbstgold 2026: Opening Concert

What's it about?

Pablo Ferrández, CelloRiccardo Minasi, ConductorChamber Orchestra of EuropeJoseph Haydn:Symphony No. 88 in G major Hob I:88Joseph Haydn:Concerto for Cello and OrchestraWolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Symphony No. 41 in C major KV 551 "Jupiter""I was cut off from the world, no one near me could make me doubt myself and torment me, and so I had to become original," Joseph Haydn once wrote about his workplace. Yet it was precisely Haydn's originality that would make him the most famous composer of his time. The humorous Symphony Hob. I:88, for example, was composed for Paris, but was also performed in Vienna and London without Haydn profiting from it. His Cello Concerto in C major, probably written for Franz Joseph Weigl, the principal cellist of the Esterházy court orchestra, was only rediscovered in Prague in the 1960s. And the brilliant "Jupiter Symphony" by Haydn's friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his last work in this genre and composed around the same time as Haydn's Symphony No. 88, may have been performed in Dresden, Frankfurt or Vienna during Mozart's lifetime. What is certain is that it has gone out into the world as an epitome of classicism. And it is also certain that cellist Pablo Ferrández, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Riccardo Minasi are stylistically informed interpreters who present the brilliance and grandeur of Haydn's and Mozart's works with verve.

Where?

Schloss Esterházy, Haydnsaal
Esterházyplatz 1, 7000 Eisenstadt

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