Shows
Programme
What to expect
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: excerpts from „Die Zauberflöte“ (version for three basset horns) / Masonic Funeral Music / Adagio in B flat major, „Freimaurer-Adagio“ / Freimaurerkantate („Brüder reicht die Hand zum Bunde“) und more of masonic music by Duke Ellington or George Gershwin etc.
Duration: around 65 minutes without a break
Intro
20 minutes before each performance in the foyer, we will tell you about the story of the evening.
Tickets
Prices: EUR 52 | 28
Subscription (four performances of free choice)
Reductions: U27 / Ö1 Intro / Club Ö1
Content
from Mozart to Gershwin
In Imperial Vienna the hypocrisy at Court and the bigotry of the Church drove the intellectuals to the Masonic lodges. Mozart wrote his most beautiful music for these seekers after truth: solemn adagios for clarinets, Freemason cantatas full of the pathos of truth, and the songs in “The Magic Flute”. The Vienna Clarinet Connection transforms Sarastro and co. into a playful “Freemason ceremony”, ending up with jazz, which of course takes a sceptical view of the great truths of the past: “It ainʼt necessarily so”.