VIVALDI • THE 4 SEASONS
FROM JULY TO OCTOBER • ST.CHARLES CHURCH - ENSEMBLE 1756
harles Church was finished in 1737. Three years later the venetian priest and composer Antonio Vivaldi moved to Vienna and and it may be accepted that he visited this brand new extraordinary sacral building. As nowadays one is still attracted by its architecture to people of the 18th century the Charles Church must have appeared as strange and exceptionaly unique.
Vivaldi himself died in Vienna on July 28th 1741. He was burried just a few meters from Charles Church at “Spitaler God´s Acre“. Today there is the building of Technical University and just a small sign on it reminds of Vivaldi. The grave and the bones are - like Mozarts´ -forgotten.
Only a few years before Vivaldi moved to Vienna, he composed his most famous “Four Seasons“, a compilation of four revolutionary concerts for solo violin and string orchestra. For poems (maybe written by Vivaldi) are the image of the composition which shows us furios thunder storms and flashes, breaking ice and twittering of birds, sleeping sheperds, barking dogs, a band of hunters....
VIVALDI: THE 4 SEASONS
Charles Church Vienna
Karlsplatz (Subway U1, U2, U4 stop Karlsplatz)
july - october 2010, every friday at 8.15 pm
ENSEMBLE 1756
(on period instruments)
Soloists of the Salzburger Konzertgesellschaft
Konstantin Hiller, harpsichord
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TICKET-PRICES
Kat. I: € 36,- (row 1 - 6, numbered seats)
Kat. II: € 29,- (row 7 - 17, unnumbered seats)
Kat. III: € 25,- (row 18- 23, unnumbered seats)
standing room (available at box-office and via internet): € 12,-
BOX OFFICE at St. Charles Church
opened on days of concert from 11 am
RESERVATION and INFORMATION
Salzburger Konzertgesellschaft mbH
Getreidegasse 47/4 • 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 662 828695-0
Fax: +43 662 828695-14
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