media_content.tooltip.skipped
Please find information on holidays in Austria in your local language by selecting it here.
-
Anton Bruckner, Black-and-White-Photography
Bruckner Year 2024 – Celebrating Anton Bruckner’s 200th Birthday
With his innovative approach to composing, Anton Bruckner has had an outsized influence on the world of classical music. On 4 September 2024, the organist, composer and musical virtuoso Anton Bruckner would have turned 200 years old. Upper Austria, the province in which he was born, celebrates this anniversary with a series of events throughout the year.
Who was Anton Bruckner?
Born into a family of teachers in Upper Austria’s Ansfelden, Bruckner was surrounded by music from the start. As a young man, he made his name as a virtuoso on the organ and delighted international audiences. His true passion, composing symphonies, however, was an area in which he had to fight hard for recognition.
Only in old age did he gain the favour of his contemporaries and receive numerous honours. With his unusual, convincing and innovative approach to composing, he developed the symphony further, which no one thought possible as the musical genre was then regarded as complete. To this day, his works influence musical culture, and he is regarded as one of the most important composers of his time.
All of Upper Austria turns into a stage for Anton Bruckner
In 2024, Upper Austria celebrates the birthday of its most influential composer, Anton Bruckner. The festivities will be held in numerous cities, villages, and hamlets of the region.
The Brucknerhaus Linz concert hall has a dual reason to celebrate in 2024. Aside from the birthday of its namesake, it also commemorates its own 50th anniversary with many special highlights.
The Highlights of the 200th Birthday Celebrations
Brucknerhaus
media_content.tooltip.skipped
New Year’s Concert with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz – The Opening Highlight “ab2024”
01 January 2024
Brucknerhaus Linz
The Bruckner Year starts off with the traditional New Year’s Concert at the Brucknerhaus Linz, where tradition and innovation go hand in hand. The concert celebrates not only the anniversary of Anton Bruckner but also those of the composers Arnold Schönberg, Charles Ives, Bedřich Smetana, and Leoš Janáček. Another highlight of the anniversary year kick-off is the special dance programme.
media_content.tooltip.skipped
Being Anton
year-round
Ars Electronica Center Linz (Deep Space 8K)
The Ars Electronica Center Linz, also known as the "Museum of the Future," presents Anton Bruckner's music and thoughts in an interactive sound space. Together with the Bruckner Orchestra, the exhibition invites visitors to design their individual 3D journey through Bruckner's world with an “interactive mixer,” bringing quotes and sounds to light.
Brucknerhaus
media_content.tooltip.skipped
Zubin Mehta & Vienna Philharmonic Concert to celebrate the 50-Year Anniversary of the Opening of the Brucknerhaus Linz
23 March 2024
Brucknerhaus Linz
The Vienna Philharmonic celebrates the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth and 50 years of the Brucknerhaus Linz. Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 will serve as “Birthday serenade.” Bruckner finished it one day after his 59th birthday. It is regarded as the highlight of Bruckner’s oeuvre.
media_content.tooltip.skipped
Bruckner’s Salt
15 June 2024
Saline Ebensee
Numerous choirs of the Upper Austrian Choir Society collaborate with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz for a fulminant Bruckner event. It will be held amid the impressive salt mine Ebensee, one of the many salt production sites in the region. Enjoy Bruckner’s music in the impressive setting of a salt mine.
(The unusual music event is a cooperation of the Cultural Capital Salzkammergut 2024 (Verlinkung) and Anton Bruckner 2024.)
St. Florian
media_content.tooltip.skipped
St. Florianer Bruckner Days
14 – 24 August 2024
Stiftbasilika
The Bruckner Days in St. Florian are dedicated to Anton Bruckner’s unfinished 9th Symphony and its final fragments. Aside from numerous concerts and an organ night, there will be further exciting events focussing on the composer. The highlight will be a conversational concert and a performance at the Stiftsbasilika, accompanied by the world congress of the Bruckner Society of America.
media_content.tooltip.skipped
Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra
04 September 2024
Ansfelden
Celebrate Anton Bruckner's 200th birthday on September 4th at his birthplace with an extraordinary open-air concert led by the Linz-born star conductor Franz Welser-Möst and the renowned Cleveland Orchestra. Departing from tradition, the performance unfolds in the open space between the church and Bruckner's birthhouse, featuring his iconic 4th Symphony, the Romantic.
Brucknerhaus
media_content.tooltip.skipped
Bruckner’s Symphonies in Original Sound – A Journey of Discovery in Eleven Concerts
10, 12, 14, 17, 21, 26 & 28 September 2024
4, 6, 8, 10 October 2024
Brucknerhaus Linz
For the first time ever, all of Bruckner's symphonies will be performed in their original sound. The instruments used for the performances are built according to construction methods from Bruckner's time. He wrote for string instruments with strings made from animal gut and Viennese woodwind and brass instruments with sound colours much different from those used today. At this unique concert experience, Bruckner's compositions will sound the way he really intended them to.
media_content.tooltip.skipped
Bruckner Forever! - A Mysical Genius between Rejection and Admiration
September 2024 – Febuary 2025
Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz
The exhibition is a journey into Anton Bruckner’s lifetime, casts a critical light on his life and works, and puts both in a new context. With original artefacts and contemporary visualisations, the story of the musical genius is told afresh.
