Wonderful Christmas sounds: Advent concert in Villach enthusiastic!

Wonderful Christmas sounds: Advent concert in Villach enthusiastic!

Stadtpfarrkirche Villach, 9500 Villach, Österreich - On December 15, 2024, the parish church of Villach will become the setting for an extraordinary Advent concert at 5 p.m., which is entirely dedicated to Heinrich Schütz's Christmas history. This composer, who was considered one of the most important German -speaking musicians in the 17th century, created a work with his Christmas history, which was designed in particular for choir, orchestra and soloists. The performance by the vocal ensemble Chorazón Baroque orchestra Collegium Carinthia, consisting of talented Carinthian musicians, accompanied.

a musical masterpiece

The performance will be a real festival for the ears: In addition to the well -known Christmas history, it will offer pieces from early baroque music that come from both Carinthia and Venice. Schütz ’Christmas history, which is intended as a musicworks to be listed as a gospel in the Christmas services, is supplemented by further compositional treasures by Francesco Manfredini, Johann Stadlmayr and others. The presentation also provides for the premiere of Pupliken by Heinrich Pfendner - this music will be heard for the first time after more than 400 years, transcribed by the Italian musicologist Jolando Scarpa.

Heinrich Schütz, whose Christmas history was probably performed for the first time in Dresden in 1660, presented a musical interpretation of the Christmas story in this work, based on the Gospel of Lukas and Matthew. The composition is an outstanding example of Schütz’s ability to implement biblical texts in musical form, and shows its development and maturity while he musically dealt with Italian styles. The concert in Villach promises to bring both the composition and the rich legacy of early baroque music to life in a captivating way, as wikipedia reported.