This concert begins with the prelude to Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin and continues with a work from each of two composers whose musical output was greatly influenced by Wagner: Strauss and Bruckner. Wagner finished Lohengrin in 1848 and it was the composer himself who gave the name "prelude” to the roughly ten-minute-long orchestral piece that precedes the opera and - unlike the customary overtures of the day, which introduced the opera's musical themes - develops only a single element... from the story.
Richard Strauss was only a child when he wrote his first horn compositions for his father, Franz Strauss - a horn player at the Royal Bavarian Opera House. However, many decades would pass before 1942, when his youthful Horn Concerto No. 1 was joined by a second one. This latter composition evokes Strauss's late Romantic sound and the style of his first horn concerto. It would be difficult to find a better illustration of Bruckner's adoration of Wagner than the memorable anecdote about when he visited the "master of masters”, but then later forgot which of his symphonies he had dedicated to the older composer: the second or the third? As legend has it, it was the consumption of copious quantities of beer combined with swooning adulation that led to this situation. (Posterity soberly remembers the correct answer: it was the Symphony No. 3 that was inscribed to Wagner.) The Symphony No. 6 is the most rarely played in Bruckner's oeuvre, and also the boldest. Citing its difficulty, the Wiener Philharmoniker was unwilling to perform the entire work, and played only its two middle movements at its 1883 première. A full performance of the Sixth Symphony would have to wait until 1899, after Bruckner's death, with Gustav Mahler conducting the orchestra.
Presented by: Budapest Festival Orchestra
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