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2018-09-19 07:12:53
More than just Haydn: cultural revival at Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt
Haydn's Armida in the Haydnsaal, Schloss Esterházy at Herbst Gold 2018 (Photo Jerzy Bin) The town of Eisenstadt in Austria is synonymous with two names, that of the princely family of Esterházy, whose eponymous Schloss dominates the old town, and the composer Joseph Haydn who worked for the Princes Esterházy for some forty years. Now owned by a private cultural foundation, Schloss Esterházy is the centre for a remarkable revival of musical activities in the form of an annual Autumn festival and a year round concert series, exploring the music of Haydn, his contemporaries and alongside that of more recent composers. Despite vicissitudes and the splitting of the family estates between Austria and Hungary, Schloss Esterházy remained in the custody of Prince Paul (1901-1989) who, from 1920, husbanded the family's Austrian domains (the Hungarian ones were taken in land reform in the 1950s). He died without issue and left his […]
2018-09-17 10:43:14
Haydn at Eisenstadt: Armida at Herbst Gold festival Schloss Esterházy
[…] see enough of these operas, and Haydn regarded them highly. And until performers, directors and audiences get used to his particular style, it will be difficult to understand them.As this year's Herbst Gold festival had Krieg und Frieden (War and Peace) as its theme, the opera chosen was Armida based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata about the Crusaders at war in Jerusalem. On Friday 14 September 2018, Enrico Onofrio conducted the Haydn Philharmonie in the Haydnsaal of Schloss Esterházy, with Ana Maria Labin as Armida, Francisco Fernandez-Rueda (replacing the previously announced Julien Pregardien) as Rinaldo, Roberta Mameli as Zelmira, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani as Ubaldo, Christian Senn as Idreno and Fernando Guimaraes as Clotaro. The concert staging was by Alessio Pizzech; the cast was in costume with loosely Middle-Eastern style for Armida, Idreno, Zelmira and modern cricket-whites for the crusaders Rinaldo, Clotardo and Ubaldo (though Rinaldo had 'gone native' with […]
2012-07-12 07:00:11
Classical music education: On Day 5 of its European tour, the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra visits Haydn’s home and arrives in Vienna.
[…] the Hotel Budapest before we embarked on the three-hour drive to Austria. Our first stop was Eisenstadt , home to the famed Schloss Esterházy (Esterházy Palace, below), where Josef Haydn lived and worked in the employ of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy . The highlight of the tour, which unfortunately focused more on the far less interesting Esterhazy nobles than on Haydn (a bust of the composer is below top) was the visit to the Haydnsaal (below bottom), the room in which the man himself performed in the 1700s. While we were regrettably not able to perform there ourselves or see any live concerts in the space, we did listen to a recording of the first movement of Haydn’s early Symphony No. 6 “Le Matin” (“Morning”) at the end of the tour. We ate lunch in Eisenstadt at the Storchenmühle (Stork Mill), a restaurant with a […]
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