Through the year with Bruckner

To conclude the series „Through the year with Bruckner“, Norbert Trawöger, Artistic Director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, writes about the beginning in which the end lies and how this also applies to Bruckner and the entire Bruckner Year.

In his last article in the series „Through the year with Bruckner“, Norbert Trawöger, Artistic Director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, writes about the sounding epicenter of this year’s Bruckner year: the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and sums up a day in the Boliversum.

Anyone who thought that the 24-hour birthday festival on September 4 marked the peak of the Bruckner year was very much mistaken. Norbert Trawöger, artistic Director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, proves in his new contribution to the series „Through the year with Bruckner“ that there has also been an incredible amount to hear, see and experience in the past few weeks.

Norbert Trawöger, Artistic Director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, reflects in his new contribution to the series „Through the year with Bruckner“ on the shared experiences that have accumulated throughout the year up to Anton Bruckner’s birthday on September 4.

In his new contribution to the series „With Bruckner through the year“, Norbert Trawöger, artistic director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, traces an arc from Anton Bruckner’s summer vacations in St. Florian, his passion for his homeland, to the joy Upper Austrians take in celebrating festivals – above all Bruckner’s 200th birthday on 4 September.

At the halfway point of the Bruckner Year, the artistic director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, Norbert Trawöger, addresses the jubilarian himself in a letter.

The fact that culture is never a still image is the subject of Norbert Trawöger’s new article in the series „Through the year with Bruckner“. Culture is a movement, a process in which we address and negotiate our togetherness, among other things.

There is not one Bruckner, but several. In this article in the series „Through the year with Bruckner“, Norbert Trawöger shows that this can sometimes be a heroic, a dubious, an enigmatic or even a pensive one.

The Bruckner year started with a veritable concert series that stretched from Linz, Haid and Kirchdorf to Vienna and duly launched the first Upper Austrian KulturEXPO with musical fireworks.

„Bruckner is coming home“ was proclaimed for the planning of the first Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, which means nothing other than talking about him in the present. This is exactly what Norbert Trawöger, Artistic Director Anton Bruckner 2024, is doing in his series „Through the year with Bruckner“.

In the article, Norbert Trawöger explores the linguistic and soundscapes of Upper Austria, which are inextricably linked to the genius loci of Anton Bruckner and will be carried beyond all borders at the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO 2024 to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth.