St. Florian Bruckner Days: Chamber Music Concert

The leading chamber music ensemble from Upper Austria, the "Atalante Quartet," featuring Julia Kürner, Elisabeth Eber, Thomas Koslowsky, and Lisa Kürner, is making its debut at the St. Florian Bruckner Days. The four outstanding musicians are members of the "Bruckner Orchestra Linz" and teach at the "Upper Austrian State Music School." The concert program in St. Florian includes jewels of the string quartet literature, Mozart's "Dissonance Quartet" in C major, KV 465, as well as Dvořák's "American" Quartet in F major, Op. 96.

Bernhard Herrmann's "Echoes" completes this program with sounds from 1965. The creation of this work shows remarkable parallels to Anton Bruckner: "Echoes" emerged from a "melancholic and depressive state of mind"... do we not recognize similarities to Anton Bruckner's state of mind after the premiere of the first version of his third symphony (which is the focus of this year's St. Florian Bruckner Days): Only a short time after the disaster of that performance, Bruckner began composing his fourth symphony...