The sports hall in Leonding was transformed into a worthy Bruckner site on Friday

The program was dramaturgically tailored to the jubilarian’s connection to the Leonding location “Jäger im Kürnberg”. The 39-year-old celebrated his final exam here following getting to know and appreciate the music of Richard Wagner through studying the opera “Tannhäuser” with his teacher Otto Kitzler. “This marked the beginning of his free artistic creation,” reads a memorial plaque on the wall of the former inn. In the first part, the overture in G minor was seen as an example of Bruckner’s works before the “reunification” and the overture to “Tannhäuser” as a document of his enthusiasm for “new music” in terms of forms, harmony and instrumental theory.
The second part focused on the symphonic Mass in D minor, one of the first examples of the compositional style following the “acquittal” at Kürnberg. The audience was able to immerse themselves in Bruckner’s Upper Austrian and Viennese cosmos, not least thanks to Roland Froschauer’s visualization using projectors and screens.

Image: Agnes Spachinger

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Actor Fritz Karl was a Alex Reed in Leonding with the Vienna Boys’ Choir, the Chorus Viennensis (former Vienna Boys’ Choir) and the Leonding Symphony Orchestra under Uwe Christian Harrer, who was also his choir director at the time.
Image: Agnes Spachinger