Upper Austria Program

"The colorful shoes" - just a dream? A ballet by Ivelin Stoyanova to the music of Anton Bruckner. Based on an own libretto, adapted to the music of Anton Bruckner in cooperation with children and professional dancers, a ballet choreographed by Stoyanova Ivelin is created, in order to bring especially the younger generations closer to the diversity of Bruckner's music.

Stoyanova Ivelin | concept, direction, choreography

Stoyanov Iassen | Stage design

Rossitza-Ekova Stoyanova | Costumes

Petra Slottova | Flute

Dance Company ATEM | Dancers

Training students:inside | dancers

Past and present, interwoven through music

Bruckner created numerous works for choir, which will certainly be heard throughout Upper Austria in his anniversary year. We juxtapose a few selected choral pieces by Bruckner with modern compositions by contemporary artists such as Eric Whitacre, Bob Chilcott, Karl Jenkins, Sarah Quartel, Ola Gjelo, Jakko Mäntyjärvi et al. and look forward to an exciting program.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

OSGF - Oldie Swing & Gospel Singers

As a guest in Kirchdorf, the composer liked to make excursions to the surrounding area, including (probably in 1879) to Burg Altpernstein (castle).

Several anecdotes tell of a visit to the castle. Only with difficulty and partly "Engerl getragen" (sitting on the folded hands of his companions) could he manage the steep castle path.
Bruckner wanted to be locked up in the castle dungeon there (the "rock dungeon"). Moved by the agony of "imprisonment," he is said to have sung - again in freedom - "Resurrexit!" ("He is risen!"). Those who wish can also expose themselves to the situation of being imprisoned and then write down their impressions in musical notation. At the Jazztage on July 4 and 5, improvisation will then take place on these musical templates.

Meeting point at Neupernstein Castle at 11 a.m.
Labe and listening station on the way
Concert in the Knights' Hall at 2 p.m. with chamber music on the "Kirchdorf Steinway Grand Piano".

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Pupils:inside of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf an der Krems

Kirchdorfer Liedertafel 1852

"Florianer Wirtshausroas" folk music ensembles and dialect poets in the Florian inns

St. Florian Bruckner Days

Remembrance of the "Orgelwanderung (organ hike)" of that time and an opportunity to retrace this path.
In the spring of 1869, Anton Bruckner made a triumphant concert tour to France.
In July of the same year, an excursion took place with friends from Kirchdorf and Schlierbach, during which Bruckner played the Abbey organ.
Alois Spannesberger, then secretary and later choir master of the Kirchdorf Liedertafel:
"I am an enthusiastic music lover, have heard many beautiful things in Vienna, Linz and Salzburg etc., also many a good organist. But this divine hour, which Bruckner gave us with his sublime playing, I will not forget throughout my life."
The concert of the Music School will feature original compositions by Bruckner and his contemporaries, as well as paraphrases and jazz improvisations on Bruckner themes.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Sandra Föger

Students and teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf an der Krems

Kirchdorfer Liedertafel 1852

The eminent Bruckner and Wagner conductor Marek Janowski interprets Bruckner's monumental 5th Symphony with the Bruckner Orchester Linz

Bruckner Orchestra Linz

Marek Janowski | Conductor

Once surrounded by scandal, Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps has long since become a classic. In addition, a world premiere by Johannes Berauer will be heard.

Bruckner Orchestra Linz

Markus Poschner | Conductor

1824 - 1924 - 2024: Three dates are at the center of the symposium. In 1824, the journey to Anton Bruckner and his Linz environment takes its starting point. In 1924, the focus shifts to the building history and architecture of the Mariendom in Linz. In 2024, these giants unite to form a common cosmos: this is why this symposium relates Anton Bruckner and the Neo-Gothic in architecture, music and history for the first time and offers exciting insights into the world of 1824 - 1924 - 2024.

Anton Bruckner Institut Linz / Dommusikverein Linz / Verein für Linzer Diözesangeschichte

Dr. Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Symposium Chair, Speaker

Mag. Klaus Birngruber | Speaker

Magdalena Egger, MA | Consultant

Mag.a Sandra Föger | Consultant

DI Michael Hager | Speaker

Dr. Andreas Lindner | Speaker

Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Anna Minta | Speaker

Dr. Klaus Petermayr | Speaker

The Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf invites you to a joint evening with lots of music, song
and dance.
On this evening, this rather lesser-known musical component of the great symphonic composer will be heard. This will be followed by the presentation of certificates of the 5th Upper Austrian Folk Music Competition with performances of the "awarded" ensembles

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Students and teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf

An art exhibition

An exhibition of selected art projects by Reinhard Gupfinger, Lucas Norer and others that were juried and funded through the an_TON_Linz special funding program initiated by the City of Linz for the Bruckner Year 2024. Expanded by a photo series by Renate Billensteiner, the projects shown in the Atelierhaus Salzamt deal with Anton Bruckner in innovative and unusual ways and represent a multi-layered dialogue of contemporary artists with the work and reception history of Bruckner.

Duration of the exhibition:
10.04.2024 - 26.04.2024

Theater INNklusiv invites you to witness the three life stories of Anton Bruckner, to embark on the common journey there, to remember Anton Bruckner, Anton Bruckner and last but not least Anton Bruckner for the next two hundred years, even if we ourselves will neither remember nor be able to pronounce our own name in a hundred years.
In the meantime traditional and quite proven way, different music genres, self-written texts, together compiled choreographies and a particularly built stage design for a theater experience of and for humans with and without handicap will provide, colorfulness to learn to love (if that is not already so). Everyone between 0 and 200 years is invited to join in the celebration, to sing and last but not least to dance, therefore we only say: "All Anton!"

Performances:
Landesmusikschule Engelhartszell on May 25, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.
Landesmusikschule Münzkirchen on June 8 and 9, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.
Kubinsaal Schärding on June 29 and 30, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.

Theater INNklusive

Andorfer Chöre und Musica Invita

The original sound movement, initially specializing in Renaissance and Baroque music, has long since reached the music of the Romantic period and has also led to exciting recordings of Bruckner symphonies.
The study of music from earlier eras requires a great deal of knowledge in the areas of stylistics and instrumentology, performance practice, music history, etc., and is a tradition at the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf. Except for the Corona break, there has been a concert of early music every November since 2003 (since 2004 followed by a Junker tasting).
On the program is music from early and high baroque with a little preview of the soon to begin anniversary year.
This year, Bruckner-cider and Bruckner-wine will be available for tasting after the concert.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Students and teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf an der Krems

"From Anton Bruckner's music cabinet"

Anton Bruckner became acquainted with the music of composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel at an early age. His knowledge of the masterpieces of his predecessors, which of course included the Viennese classics and Franz Schubert, later helped him to develop his skills as a composer and improviser.
A concert of music that Bruckner must have heard..... followed by wine and must, which he appreciated just as much!

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Students and teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf

"The goal of this project is to experience Bruckner with all the senses. In interactive games and performances, the students have the opportunity to transport themselves to Bruckner's time. Inspired by Bruckner's works, they dance, sing, play and puzzle. The mysterious world of the organ is explored in the parish church.

School of Music St. Georgen an der Gusen

Elementary school St. Georgen an der Gusen

School of Music St. Georgen an der Gusen

Verein Kurmusik - 29th International Music Summer Bad Schallerbach 2024

Johannes Hiemetsberger | Choirmaster

Cons. Peter Gillmayr | 1st violin

Kathrin Lenzenweger | 2nd violin

Judith Bik | Violoncello

Roland Wiesinger | Double Bass

Peppone Ortner | Clarinet, Saxophone

Oksana Kuzo | Piano

A folk music concert with pieces by and around Anton Bruckner. Volker Derschmidt will also present his new songbook.

Landesmusikschule Grieskirchen

Ensembles of the Landesmusikschule Grieskirchen and Neumarkt am Hausruck

Volksmusikensemble | Volker Derschmidt

The Kunstverein Traun ART, in cooperation with the city of Ansfelden, gives artists from the fields of painting, sculpture and collage the opportunity to produce their own works in Ansfelden and at the other Upper Austrian sites of Anton Bruckner - and if possible, beyond - over several days and then bring them to the exhibition.

Vernissage
28.06.24 at 19:00 in Ansfelden (exact place to be announced)

Exhibition and final event
13.07.24 in Ansfelden, with awards for the exhibited works.
(The amount of the awards for the works will be announced in time).

Conditions of participation:
Artists from the fields of painting, sculpture and collage are invited to participate. The number of participants depends on the possibilities of the workplaces.
Registrations possible until 31.03.24 at:
traxman@aon.at

For more information on the conditions of participation, see: Details & Tickets

Kunstverein TraunART in cooperation with ABC Ansfelden

The Upper Austrian Landes-Kultur GmbH is working under the leadership of Dr. Klaus Petermayr on a Bruckner-biography, in an easily readable and appealing format. The presentation of the finished book will now take place in November in the Barocksaal of the parish of Ansfelden, with Governor Thomas Stelzer in attendance.

OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH

The evening brings two very different cinematic approaches to the artistic personality Anton Bruckner

"The Unrecognized Genius" is a documentary that gives numerous interpreters of Bruckner's music a chance to speak.
The feature film "Anton Bruckner's Decision" is about his decision to give up the position of cathedral organist in his familiar Linz in order to work in Vienna in the future as a professor at the Conservatory and court organist.
In both films, much space is given to Bruckner's original music.

"The Misjudged Genius" is also offered as a morning performance for students.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Students and teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf an der Krems

Anton Bruckner entertained people as a country fiddler during his time in Kronstorf and was supported in many ways by farmer Michael Fördermayr. The Kronstorf cider sommelier Robert Brandner (Mostschänke Sacher) presents the Anton Bruckner cider suitable for the anniversary year 2024 and one or the other unusual "Bruckner note" is brought closer to a wide audience in the context of the cider tasting.

Local farmers association Kronstorf, music association Kronstorf, market town Kronstorf

In the course of concerts for the "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen," Arnold Schönberg initiated the creation of a version for chamber ensemble of Bruckner's 7th Symphony by commissioning three of his students (Hans Eisler/Erwin Stein/Karl Ranke). This version has an astonishingly transparent sound of fascinating clarity. The music theorist and organist Matthias Giesen has created a similar version with Bruckner's 6th Symphony.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Students of the ABPU

Theresia Helm, Anton Bruckner's mother, was born in Neuzeug in 1801 at Theresia-Helm-Strasse 28.
Theresia grew up in a rich parental home in Neuzeug.
Her parents owned a lot of land and the income from her father as an official administrator of the Gschwendt estate,
as well as the income from the inn and they also had the Messerer and Verlegergerechtigkeit.
So Anton Bruckner on his mother's side is a real 'Sierninger - Neuzeuger'.
Later, Anton Bruckner repeatedly stayed at today's Landhotel Forsthof and once dedicated the song Die Rose (The Rose) to the daughter of the house, whom he greatly admired.
He was also a founding member of the Liedertafel Sierninghofen-Neuzeug, which is still at home in the Gasthof Landerl and holds weekly choir rehearsals - if able to sing.
Anton Bruckner was also the author of their motto.

The opening of the exhibition with the Hausruckviertler Kunstkreis takes place on
04.10.24 at18:00 clock takes place.

2 guided tours are offered:

- Sierning: on the traces of Anton Bruckner, his love and his contemporaries in Sierning
- Sierninghofen/Neuzeug: on the traces of Theresia Bruckner (née Helm) and his friends in Neuzeug

Registrations and appointments via the market town Sierning under:
Registration

Market Town Sierning Culture

Jürgen Bley | Artist

Beate Praxmarer Mag. Phil. | Artist

Anneliese Schinagl | Artist

Monika Steiner | Artist

Erwin Brunmayr | Project Management

Günter Rosatzin | Project Management

When Anton Bruckner applied for a position as Kapellmeister in Vienna at the age of fifty, he proudly wrote that he had "grown up with church music". There is hardly a symphonic concert hall in which the F minor Mass or the Te Deum have not been heard, hardly a church choir that does not have the Ave Maria, the Christus factus est or the Locus iste in its program. But a large part of his sacred work is unknown. Who knows that Bruckner set the Ave Maria and the Christus factus est to music three times each, in different phases of his life and in different styles? Who knows Bruckner's German-language choruses for weddings, funerals and name days? To this day, his music lies buried under clichés - that of the 'pious' and 'deeply religious' organist or that of the composing professor who, with his Catholicism, seems to have fallen out of time and world. This work guide offers for the first time well-founded information on Bruckner's complete sacred works, critically and with a fresh eye. All works are described against their social, religious, and liturgical backgrounds, combined with practical performance advice.

Müry Salzmann Publishing House

Presentation comic book within Nextcomic Festival 2024

A comic book and silent exhibition on sound and space in comics and illustration. The occasion for this anthology is the 200th anniversary of the composer Anton Bruckner. A compilation of international and local comic artists will present a zine published by Atelierhaus Salzamt that reflects on Anton Bruckner's biography and work as part of the Nextcomic Festival.

Duration of the exhibition:
15.03.2024 - 22.08.2024

Performers are the Max Reger Vokalensemble from Ulm: Andreas Weil (conductor), Bernhard Prammer (organ); the program includes male choirs by Anton Bruckner as well as organ works by E. L. Leitner and B. Preinfalk. First performance Ernst Ludwig Leitner, "Dialogue with Anton Bruckner", 2023 Bernd Preinfalk, "Troger", 2023 Presentation of the artwork "Vierklang", originanlly from Michael Kienzer and played by Prof. Dr. Martin Hochleiter, Director of the Museum Salzburg

Brucknerbund for Upper Austria

Following Bruckner's footsteps spatially, an elementary school, a special school and a Neue Mittelschule in Ansfelden, Linz and Vienna are the venues where young and very young people grapple with the musical language of the two-hundred-year-old Mr. Bruckner.
Only to make it their own in a new way: To this end and in the process, pictures are painted, collages are made, and sounds are transformed into words and poetry.
The overall exhibition of the resulting works will take place at ABC Ansfelden, on 20 June 2024 at 19.00 clock is invited to the vernissage.

Nina Fountedakis

The Ballot Quintet plays: M. Haydn - Quintet in C major, P. 108 A. Bruckner - Intermezzo in D minor, WAB 113 A. Bruckner - Quintet in F major, WAB 112.

Village Renewal Association Bad Kreuzen

Ballot Quintet

French conductor and violinist Rémy Ballot has formed an ensemble with musicians with whom he regularly works in orchestras. An acclaimed debut concert at the 2020 St. Florian Bruckner Festival resulted in a CD of Anton Bruckner's String Quintet and String Quartet, released on the Gramola label. Through this project the fixed core of a regular ensemble, the Ballot Quintet, developed.

Municipality of Steyr / Culture

Rémy Ballot - 1st violin

Iris Ballot - 2nd violin

Stefanie Kropfreiter - 1st viola

Liliya Nigamedzyanova - 2nd viola

Liina Leijala- Violoncello

The program contains mainly pieces from Bruckner's environment, by composers whom Bruckner will have known or by whom he may have been influenced. Due to the unusual instrumentation, the works are performed extremely rarely and promise an exciting listening experience in any case. The ensemble plays exclusively on original instruments from the 19th century.

Anton Bruckner Centrum Ansfelden & Brucknerbund Ansfelden

With BrucknAIR, the music of Anton Bruckner is to be transmitted from the festival halls in St. Florian to the public space and made accessible to a broad public.
Experience a live sound broadcast of the Bruckner Orchester Linz conducted by Markus Poschner with Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor on the market square in St. Florian.
More details to follow.

Parish St. Florian

An artistic processing of the impressions of the person and life of Anton Bruckner - atmospheric images, taken from life, etc. by the artists of the association TraunART. Duration of the exhibition: 18.01.-03.03.2024

Anton Bruckner Center

TraunART

More information will follow!

St. Florian Bruckner Days

St. Florian Music Society

Franz Falkner | Management

Josef Auer | Moderation

An artistic processing of the impressions of the person and life of Anton Bruckner - atmospheric images, taken from life, etc. by the artists of the association TraunART. Duration of the exhibition: 18 January to 3 March 2024

Anton Bruckner Center

At the age of 17, Bruckner was not that much older than the students and was sent to Windhaag in the Bohemian Forest as a trained school assistant, where he enjoyed hitherto unknown freedoms - but also had to fulfill and perform a wide range of tasks and services, which was associated with privations.
An information room in the old school, which is only semi-public but open to the public, is a reminder of this. This is Bruckner's workplace in Windhaag, which, at the instigation of owner Irmgard Quass, is now a Bruckner-place of learning and remembrance in one, and whose exhibition room is to be redesigned by Anton Bruckner in 2024.

Event period: from autumn 2024

Verein Anton Bruckner Salon Windhaag bei Freistadt

Irmgard Quass | Management

Rémy Ballot: Paris-born violinist and conductor Rémy Ballot has established himself internationally through his interpretations of Bruckner's symphonies. Considered by some to be the best Bruckner conductor of his generation, his eight live recordings of Bruckner symphonies to date at the Bruckner Festival St. Florian serve as reference recordings and have won numerous awards.

Anton Bruckner Center

Felix Metzger | Musician

Stephan Deinhammer | Musician

What you always wanted to know about Anton Bruckner....
The Master and humor:
Hilarious and bizarre facts about the composer's life and personality,
with music and text examples...in a relaxed coffee house atmosphere!
Furthermore, the book presentation of the Bruckner biography by Klaus Petermair will take place.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Klaus Petermair

Teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf an der Krems

The 7th Symphony by that composer, who regularly came to Bad Ischl for the birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph I and liked to call himself "the emperor's organist", will conclude the KIRCH'KLANG Festival 2023.

Martin Haselböck and his Orchester Wiener Akademie have been internationally renowned for many years for their interpretation of romantic orchestral works in their original sound.

2:30 pm in the Trinkhalle: Norbert Trawöger discusses with Martin Haselböck

KIRCH'KLANG Festival Salzkammergut

Orchester Wiener Akademie | Artists

Martin Haselböck | Conductor

The inhabitants of the 72 Brucknerstreets, alleys, paths and squares throughout Upper Austria receive a visit. From David Wagner, who travels the famous destinations by cargo bike, completely unmotorized. Not without the sheet music of the nine Bruckner symphonies in his luggage. And not without his helmet camera, which he needs to record the encounters with the people at his destinations on video.
For these are asked for audio donations of 15-second motifs from the 9 Bruckner symphonies - from which David Wagner then creates a 9-minute film with Bruckner's 9 symphonies in the interpretation of a more or less random cross-section of the Upper Austrian population. Plus another cinematic 9-minute film documenting his 24 outings. One as well as the other can be seen in the fall of 2024.

Tour dates:
Thu, 04/11: Linz-Peuerbach
Fri, 12.04.: Peuerbach-Schärding-Mühlheim
Sat, 04/13: Mühlheim-Braunau-Mattighofen-Ried/I.
Sun, 14.04.: Ried/I.-Linz

Wed, 04/17: Linz-Linz
Thu, 04/18: Linz-Attnang
Fri, 19.04.: Attnang-Schwanentadt-Stadl/Paura-Lambach
Sat, 20.04.: Lambach-Pichl-Wels
Sun, 04/21: Wels-Schleissheim-Weisskirchen-Linz

Thu, 04/25: Linz-Linz
Fri, 04/26: Linz-Luftenberg-Schwertberg
Sat, 27.04.: Schwertberg-Pabneukirchen-Perg
Sun, 28.04.: Perg-Grein-Naarn
Mon, 29.04: Naarn-Linz

Sat, 04.05.: Linz-Asten-Enns-St. Florian
Sun, 05.05.: St.Florian-Kronstorf-Wolfern-Steyr
Mon, 06.05.: Steyr-Sierning-Bad Hall
Tue, 07.05.: Bad Hall-Kremsmünster-Kirchdorf-Micheldorf
Wed, 08.05.: Micheldorf-Gmunden
Thu, 09.05. (F): Gmunden-Bad Ischl
Fri, 10.05.: Bad Ischl-Schörfling-Seewalchen
Sat, 11.05.: Seewalchen-Lenzing-Laakirchen-Vorchdorf
Sun, 12.05.: Vorchdorf-Sattledt-Neuhofen-Linz

Thu, 16.05.: Linz-Grieskirchen
Fri, 17.05.: Grieskirchen-Gallspach-Bad Schallerbach-Wallern-Fraham
Sat, 18.05.: Fraham-Oftering-Hörsching-Kirchberg-Thening-Linz

Thu, 05/23: Linz-Ansfelden-Linz
Fri, 05/24: Linz-Rohrbach
Sat, 25.05.: Rohrbach-Windhaag-Freistadt
Sun, 05/26: Freistadt-Linz

Wed, 05/29: Linz-Linz
Thu, May 30 (F): Linz-Traun-Marchtrenk-Steinhaus
Fri, 31.05.: Steinhaus-Timelkam-Vöcklamarkt
Sat, 01.06.: Vöcklamarkt-Frankenburg-Vöcklabruck

www.alles-wagner.at

David Wagner

On 25000m2 in the Kronstorf corn maze you can walk through long labyrinths, put your sense of direction to the test, solve tasks about Anton Bruckner in a playful way, find hidden stamps and much more.

Event Period:
07/10/2024 - 09/20/2024, all day.

Kronstorf corn maze - Martin and Daniela Forstner

The fact that you can pull art like chewing gum, condoms, drinks, snacks and tobacco out of a vending machine is no longer entirely new. In contrast to the art vending machine, which its inventor Helene Huemer has equipped with all kinds of sculptures, medals, scrolls and comics in the Bruckner style.
Now it is going on tour throughout Upper Austria - and demands to be filled again and again by people eager to create.

Event period: from spring 2024

Helene Huemer

with citizens, artists and associations

The Ennser Singkreis will perform Bruckner's Requiem in D minor in concert in the venerable Basilica of Enns-St. Laurenz. Advance tickets available at the Citizens' Service Office of the Municipality of Enns, from choir members and online at: www.ennser-singkreis.at

Enns Singing Circle

Hannes Schörghuber | Choirmaster/Conductor

The brass players of the ABPU on historical instruments and with the Hard-Choir. In cooperation with the Brass Institute, the Hard Choir and the Schwanthaler Trumpet Consort. The program contains mainly choruses by Anton Bruckner, with brass players on original instruments providing the surprisingly homogeneous sound balance. Due to the unusual instrumentation, the works are rarely performed and promise an exciting listening experience.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Students of the ABPU

Hard-Chor

The Upper Austrian Horn Players Celebrate Anton Bruckner

After the flash mob "Spiel AnTon!" in the pedestrian zone, there will be an open air concert in the castle garden. A nationally assembled orchestra of more than 100 horn players under the direction of Prof. Raimund Zell will perform, among others, the "Funeral Music on the Death of Richard Wagner" from the second movement of Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony, a suite with themes from his 8th Symphony and a commissioned work by Thomas Doss. This concert will also commemorate Prof. Erich Pizka, who would celebrate his 110th birthday on December 10, 2024. He was solo hornist with the Bruckner Orchester Linz, professor at the Bruckner Conservatory (today Anton Bruckner Private University) and is considered the "father" of the great horn family. A real "cloud of sound" awaits you - certainly a special experience in this ambience!

In case of bad weather, the event will take place in the town parish church.

Oö. Landesmusikschulwerk

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Pupils from the Upper Austrian Landesmusikschulen

Teachers from the Upper Austrian music schools

Horn players from Austrian professional orchestras

interested horn friends

The Upper Austrian Horn Players Celebrate Anton Bruckner

A nationally assembled orchestra of more than100 horn players under the direction of Prof. Raimund Zell will perform, among others, the "Funeral Music on the Death of Richard Wagner" from the second movement of Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony, a suite with themes from his 8th Symphony and a commissioned work by Thomas Doss. This concert will also commemorate Prof. Erich Pizka, who would celebrate his 110th birthday on December 10, 2024. He was solo hornist with the Bruckner Orchester Linz, professor at the Bruckner Conservatory (today Anton Bruckner Private University) and is considered the "father" of the great horn family. A real "cloud of sound" awaits you - certainly a special experience in this ambience!
In case of bad weather the concert will take place in the Stadthalle Wels.

City of Wels

Horn students of the Upper Austrian Landesmusikschulwerk

Horn teachers of the Upper Austrian Landesmusikschulwerk

Horn players of Austrian orchestras

Music universities and conservatories

2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Anton Bruckner. For the Vienna Brass Connection this is more than a reason to celebrate and so there will also be a Bruckner focus in the versatile concert program to honor this powerful music accordingly. The ensemble plays selected music that reflects the whole spectrum of life: sometimes loud, sometimes soft, sometimes cheerful and sometimes sad, sometimes high, sometimes low, sometimes Bruckner, etc.

Verein Kurmusik - 29th International Music Summer Bad Schallerbach 2024

Vienna Brass Connection

The Bruckner Ball will take place, with Wolfgang Brunner at the piano, at 19:30 in the Marble Hall.
Before that, at 17:00, you have the opportunity to participate in a dance class.

St. Florian Bruckner Days

Wolfgang Brunner | Piano

"With no other composer has the world taken less notice of his idiosyncrasies than with Bruckner. Hardly anywhere else is the biographical material as meager as in the case of this solitary great," Göllerich stated. That is why the Bruckner-Resonanzen invite us to come closer to the man Anton Bruckner in words & music. Original texts by and anecdotes about Bruckner are congenially combined with his compositions and arrangements for organ as well as sound creations in resonance with the giant.

Verein Musica Sacra in Kooperation mit dem Dommusikverein Linz

Cathedral organist Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Rudigier organ

Manuel Klein | Recitation

Talking and Bruckner bring people together. Norbert Trawöger, the artistic director of the Bruckner Year, holds salon discussions on site about Bruckner, his music, God, the world and our present.
For this purpose, he invites guests from the localities, brings along experts and surprise guests. You can expect to hear all kinds of things about Bruckner! Talk with us!

All dates at a glance:

10.02.24 in Wels (following "Dark Matter" by Lucas Norer)
18.04.24 in Enns

more dates to follow!

Upper Austria KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Dance, bob along, immerse yourself: After various sound artists have laid their hands on Bruckner's music at the Remixpult, his symphonies & Co are presented in a contemporary and danceable way in a moving and contemporary sound garment. Sometimes in the form of sound installations in club format, sometimes as silent interventions, sometimes as remixes or in the course of sound and listening experiences between late evening and early morning. And at least once also during a live performance with organ sounds by E:K:V.

Event period: in the summer months 2024

www.transitheart-productions.com
www.holyhydra.at

Transitheart Productions coop Holy Hydra

with E:K:V and other live acts

TheaterSpectacel Wilhering

Karin Peschka | Author

Rudolf Jungwirth | Composer

Joachim Rathke | Director

The collegiate basilica of St. Florian is inscribed with a Bruckner aura that cannot be found in any other place in the world. Therefore, performances of Bruckner's music in this magnificent church space become an event in themselves. In St. Florian, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Markus Poschner also devote themselves decidedly to the later symphonies, which seem to be particularly aware of a transcendent mystery.

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 (1881-83)

Bruckner Orchestra Linz

Markus Poschner | Conductor

The sound researcher Dr. Richard Eigner, who has attracted international attention with his project "Die Entlärmung des Lärms," takes interested people of all ages on an acoustic voyage of discovery back to the sphere of sound with which Anton Bruckner was confronted at his places of education, encounter and influence.
Using highly sensitive recording equipment such as small-diaphragm condenser microphones, hydrophones (suitable for underwater listening) and solid-borne sound transducers, participants will jointly approach those sounds that shaped Bruckner's natural soundscape on a daily basis. How has this changed since the composer's time of activity?

Dr. Richard Eigner

A saltworks is a place for the extraction of salt. There is no better place to get a taste for the crystalline basic structures of Bruckner's music. In the vastness of a production hall of the Ebensee salt works, many choirs of Upper Austria, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Markus Poschner gather for a unique Bruckner event of a special kind. Expect motets, symphonic parts, improvised and unexpected in a distinctive space.

An event by Capital of Culture Bad Ischl - Salzkammergut 2024 in cooperation with Anton Bruckner 2024

Choirs of the Upper Austrian Choir Association

Alexander Koller

Conductor Bruckner Orchester | Linz

Markus Poschner | Conductor

Concept: OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH | Operation: OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Anton Bruckner has already made history, while the quantum physicists working in Austria are currently doing so. The fact that significant contributions to quantum physics mechanics and quantum computing come from the Alpine Republic has been recognized at least since Anton Zeilinger was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
BruQner is one of the first attempts worldwide to work artistically with real quantum effects. In the process, quanta meet fifths, so to speak: Striking passages from Bruckner's work are made audible in a new way to make the workings of a quantum computer tangible.
Austrian-based research is leading the way in the development of quantum technology. A sensual symbiosis of music, visuals and modern science is created. Marvel with us and hear the future potential in Bruckner's music!

Event period: from autumn 2024

Philipp Haslinger, Richard Küng, Martin Ringbauer, Clemens Wenger

Clemens Wenger | Musician

Enar de Dios Rodríguez | Artist

Martin Ringbauer | Scientist, University of Innsbruck

Martin van Mourik | Scientist, University of Innsbruck

Milena Guevara-Bertsch | Scientist, University of Innsbruck

Claire Edmunds | Scientist, University of Innsbruck

Christian Marciniak | Scientist, University of Innsbruck

Johannes Kofler | Scientist, Johannes Kepler University Linz

Richard Küng | Scientist, Johannes Kepler University Linz

Philipp Haslinger | Scientist, Vienna University of Technology

More information will follow!

St. Florian Bruckner Days

Chameleon Orchestra

Christian Wirth | Management

Program:
ANTON BRUCKNER OVERTURE IN G MINOR
RICHARD WAGNER OVERTURE TO THE OPERA TANNHÄUSER
ANTON BRUCKNER MASS IN D MINOR

As the former artistic director of the Wiener Sängerknaben and der Wiener Hofmusikkapelle for many years, Uwe Christian Harrer wants to establish the connection to Anton Bruckner, in addition to his hometown of Leonding, also through the performers and the selection of the music program.
Bruckner had regular dealings with the then k. k. Hofkapellknaben, today's Wiener Sängerknaben, as court organist; he worked with them and wrote his third mass for them, that in F minor. After the great success of the D minor Mass in Linz, this work was performed for the first time in Vienna in February 1867 in the Hofburgkapelle.
The Overture in G minor stands as an example for those compositions that were written before the turn of 1863, while the D minor Mass, with its closeness to Bruckner's progressive symphonic language, stands for those works that are to be counted after the "acquittal," i.e., after the celebration in Leonding am Kürnberg.
With Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhäuser", Bruckner became acquainted with the daring modernity of the musical theme and the dimensions of bold architecture under his teacher Otto Kitzler. The overture to this mystical medieval material shows the interesting field of tension in the history of music in the second half of the 19th century.

Leonding Symphony Orchestra

The space and sound installation Dark Matter deals with a historically special as well as particularly delicate performance practice of Bruckner's works: Around the dark concerts during the Nazi era, for which the Vienna Konzerthaus was completely darkened. Hearing Bruckner in this way was promoted as a pseudo-religious and transcendent experience in the spirit of National Socialism.
85 years after the first of these lightless concerts, Dark Matter transforms the Minoritenkirche in Wels into a darkened space and sound setting. The staging of the location and the aesthetic in which Bruckner's 7th Symphony is heard, however, deliberately refers not to fascism but to the drone music happenings of the 1960s. As a result, Bruckner's music once again undergoes a reinterpretation that frees it from its Nazi reference against its will.

Lucas Norer

After the early death of his father, Bruckner was sent by his mother to the nearby monastery of Sankt Florian as a choirboy. Following the family tradition, he decided to pursue a career as a teacher. As a school assistant in the village of Windhaag, conflicts soon arose with his superior, which eventually led to his transfer to Kronstorf: Bruckner had composed too much. You can hear what Bruckner composed during this time in this concert.

Association for the promotion of the Landesmusikschule St. Georgen an der Gusen

Pupils of the Upper Austrian Music School St. Georgen an der Gusen

Teachers of the Upper Austrian Music School St. Georgen an der Gusen and guests

The performance will include the Mass by Frank Martin, polychoral wind settings by Gabrieli, and the Mass in E minor by Anton Bruckner in original instrumentation for choir and orchestra.

School of Music Stadl-Paura/Steinerkirchen

Ensemble Wohlsang | Georg Leopold

Anton Bruckner Wind Consort | Hubert Gurtner

In keeping with the spirit of the anniversary, Die Phantastische brings the work of Anton Bruckner to a young audience. By means of analog, digital and performative interpretations, montages and transformations that reflect and establish relationships with pop cultural forms such as the music video or social media phenomena like TikTok. The resulting structural film itself is part of a performative screening at the Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz.

Sigi Fruhauf and Jutta Strohmaier

with students from the departments of Art and Design and Time-Based Media at the Linz University of the Arts

Piano quartets by F. X. Mozart, G. Mahler and J. Brahms: Andreas Eggertsberger is an expressive pianist from Ansfelden. Sabine Reiter, born in Linz, graduated from the music high school there under the influence of the wonderful musician Balduin Sulzer. Peter Aigner is artistic director of the "International Chamber Music Days St. Marien" and chairman of the Brucknerbund Ansfelden. Lisa Kilian teaches at the OÖ Landesmusikschulwerk and is a regular member of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz.

Anton Bruckner Centrum Ansfelden & Brucknerbund Ansfelden

Andreas Eggertsberger | Musician

Sabine Reiter | Musician

Peter Aigner | Musician

Lisa Kilian | Musician

A house full of music presents itself in a new guise: the versatile musician Mira Gregorič visits Anton Bruckner in his music kitchen. It sizzles and bubbles there, wonderful sounds and melodies can be heard everywhere. What does it take to conjure up this special musical stew? Together with the audience and young musicians and dancers from the Upper Austrian Landesmusikschulen, the sound ingredients are collected and "processed" into a great sound dish.

Brucknerhaus Linz, Oö. Landesmusikschulwerk, Oö. Streichervereinigung

Pupils from the Upper Austrian Landesmusikschulen

Mira Gregorič | Violin, Moderation & Concept

Ida Leidl, Ilja van den Bosch, Anna Dürrschmid, Malina Meier | Concept

The concert is a joint project of the Institute of Composition, Conducting and Computer Music and the Institute of Keyboard Instruments. The idea is to build a bridge between the music of Anton Bruckner and the new works of the students of composition.

Piano works and songs by Anton Bruckner - New compositions by students of the composition class Carola Bauckholt in different chamber music instrumentations with accordion

Anton Bruckner Private University

Students of the ABPU

Reading with music, from letters by and to Anton Bruckner with piano and string quintet with music by Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner Center

Aigner Peter and friends

Anton Bruckner through the eyes of our students!
Bruckner also served as a model in the visual arts time and again:
There are painted portraits, photographs, caricatures, statues etc.
During the anniversary year, the composer and his musical world will also serve as a model for our students. The results of this work will fill this year's Advent calendar.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Students and teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf an der Krems

In Kronstorf, as a 19-year-old school assistant, he felt "as if he were in heaven" and described himself as a composer for the first time. The market town has restaged Bruckner's former living room as a museum on the occasion of the Bruckner-Year and will celebrate the reopening of the world's smallest Bruckner-museum on 28.01.2024 at an original place of residence as a school assistant.

Market town Kronstorf

In Kronstorf, as a 19-year-old, he felt "like in heaven" and described himself as a composer for the first time. Framed by artistic pictures of Anton Bruckner, the artistic director of the OÖ KulturEXPO 2024 Norbert Trawöger will present exciting facts about Bruckner. The Kronstorf "Bruckner-Geige" (violin) will be played officially for the first time after being set in value. An exceptionally well preserved instrument, a complete history, a very special Kronstorf personality.

Market town Kronstorf

More information will follow!

St. Florian Bruckner Days

European Brass Collective

Daniel Perpinan | Management

Benefit for the restoration of the Georgibergkirche Micheldorf

The Schiffler family, as a trombone quartet and vocal ensemble, performs classical motets and chorales, various works by Bruckner, as well as unconventional, contemporary, experimental, and thought-provoking pieces.
Norbert Trawöger leads through the program - with appropriate texts, letters, anecdotes and stories.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Schiffler family

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the consecration of St. Mary's Cathedral, the Diocese of Linz celebrates a festive service. Bruckner's Mass in D minor is the musical focus of the service.

Diocese of Linz - Cathedral Music

Cathedral Choir Linz

Choir of the Conservatory of Sacred Music Linz

Soloists and Orchestra of the Dommusik Linz

Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Cathedral organist

Andreas Peterl | Cathedral conductor

155 years after its premiere, Bruckner's Mass in E minor is heard in a festive service in St. Mary's Cathedral.

Diocese of Linz - Cathedral Music

Cathedral Choir Linz

Wind ensemble and choir of the Musikgymnasium Linz

Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Cathedral organist

Andreas Peterl | Cathedral conductor

More information will follow!

St. Florian Bruckner Days

Florian Choir Day

Faroe Islands Choir

Around 80 young musicians will be given a unique opportunity as part of the Bruckner-Year 2024: they can work and make music with Franz Welser-Möst. The Oö. Jugendsinfonieorchester of the Upper Austrian Landesmusikschulwerk will play a total of four concerts from March 31, 2024, conducted by Maestro Möst.

The four concerts of the Upper Austrian Youth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst will take place on:
1. March 31, 2024, Jahnturnhall Ried im Innkreis
2. April 1, 2024, Toskana Kongress Gmunden
3. April 2, 2024, Stadttheater Wels
4. April 3, 2024, Donausaal Mauthausen

The Oö. Jugendsinfonieorchester of the Upper Austrian Landesmusikschulwerk has existed for around 25 years and is made up of the best young musicians in the state. It is an offer for young musicians who like to make music together and want to get to know the world of symphonic orchestra music.

In honor of St. Francis de Sales, we play an orchestrated version of the Kronstorf Mass by Anton Bruckner during the service.

High school Dachsberg

Christian Grüneis | Conductor

7 artists print lithographs from the stone and create an individual reference to Anton Bruckner.

In contrast to earlier times - in the inventor Senefelder's time in the 18th century, when there were only male artists and printers - or even in Anton Bruckner's lifetime, printed matter was printed by men. Only later, as the only exception among the artists, Käthe Kolwitz became an artistic role model with a strong statement in her lithographs.
So today, even in physically heavy, elaborate, old printing techniques, as it is especially the lithography after Senefelder, the women artists are now even the majority.
This beautiful special technique is without digital simplification of the press nevertheless not obsolete.

7 artists print lithographs from the stone and create an individual reference to Anton Bruckner.

In contrast to earlier times - in the inventor Senefelder's time in the 18th century, when there were only male artists and printers - or even in Anton Bruckner's lifetime, printed matter was printed by men. Only later, as the only exception among the artists, Käthe Kolwitz became an artistic role model with a strong statement in her lithographs.
So today, even in physically heavy, elaborate, old printing techniques, as it is especially the lithography after Senefelder, the women artists are now even the majority.
This beautiful special technique is without digital simplification of the press nevertheless not obsolete.

During the symposium, from August 15 - 25, 2024, you can look over the shoulder of the artists every day.

1st presentation of the symposium results:
31.08.2024
in Laakirchen in the Papiermachermuseum (lower level)

2nd presentation "Printing Bruckner":
09/17/2024 at 7:00 p.m.
CDB, Club der Begegnung, 1st floor, Kulturquartier Linz

Renate Moran

Monika Breitenfellner

Mariam Chikava

Olga Djomina

Inga Hehn

Helene Huemer

Georgina Lovelady Krausz

As HerStory in opposition to History, Für Theresia directs attention to the women in Bruckner's life. One of the few constants alongside his sisters and the housekeeper Kathi Kachelmaier is Mother Theresa, who also gave the traveling exhibition its name. Für Theresia not only paints a picture of Bruckner's relationships with women, but also asks about female roles during Bruckner's lifetime and opens up many a fresh perspective on his life and work. On International Women's Day 2024, the show will make its first stop on its tour with the Poxrucker Sisters at the Brucknerhaus Linz.

Zoe Goldstein

The Upper Austrian Police Department invites you to its annual concert highlight at the Brucknerhaus in Linz. Led by Kapellmeister Robert Wieser, the policemen and policewomen of the Police Music of Upper Austria will present you with a varied program. The musicians of the police music form the barrage of public relations and thus contribute to the positive image of the Upper Austrian police. Look forward to a demanding concert evening, in which of course Anton Bruckner will not be missing. Tickets are available at the Brucknerhaus Linz as well as online.

Upper Austrian Provincial Police Headquarters

The musical kick-off will take place on Saturday, January 6, 2023 at 5 p.m. in the festival hall of the Ritzlhof Horticultural School with a birthday concert. The Anton Bruckner Birthday Orchestra, specially assembled for this occasion with the most talented young students of the Linz-Land district, will play works by Anton Bruckner and music from all the countries that our "genius loci" has traveled to, under the direction of Peter Aigner. The concert will be moderated by LAbg. Renate Heitz.

Brucknerbund Ansfelden, Municipality of Ansfelden, Oö. Landesmusikschulwerk

200 years of Anton Bruckner plus 250 years of the Upper Austrian State Library - a round occasion for shared joy and harmonious celebration! On three evenings, musicians of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz will bring unusual and precious chamber music to the stage of the Upper Austrian State Library as part of the "Mosaic" series. One hour before the concert, the audience can take a look at exquisite old manuscripts and prints and browse through literature about Anton Bruckner and his time.

20.01.24 17:00
16.03.24 17:00
11.05.24 17:00

Free entrance!

Oö. Landesbibliothek and "Mosaik" Kammermusikreihe by musicians of the Bruckner Orchester Linz

Hallucination is a new production of Anton Bruckner's 1868 composition Erinnerung that combines artificial intelligence, live music, performance, song, holographic laser projections, and light - to create a new, sensory level of perception that blends classical, contemporary art, and avant-garde.
The resurrection of this Bruckner work in a musical-performative-visual dream world is provided by artist, composer, singer and music producer Crystn Hunt Akron together with intermedia artist Chris Noelle-who designs the visualization-and Ali Nikrang, who works as a composer, artist and key researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
The art makes use of artificial intelligence: it generates a piece that represents a kind of memory of memory and is rearranged and remixed.

Christine Hinterkörner aka CRYSTN HUNT AKRON/Singer, Composer, Sound- and Performance Artist | Artistic Direction & Idea

Chris Noelle/Intermedia Artist | Visualization

Ali Nikrang, Ars Electronica Futurelab/Key Researcher, Composer, Artist | AI Music

Artists:inside from Linz and Upper Austria | Live performance

A concert with a historically documented program by Leopold von Zenetti, teacher of Anton Bruckner.

Collegium Ennsegg

Christoph Bitzinger | Director of the Orchestra Collegium Ennsegg

The kick-off event in May 2024 at the area of the airport or the barracks should be a great spectacle and represent the beginning of the Bruckner activities in Hörsching. At the same time, an outlook on activities and events in Hörsching on the topic of Bruckner will be given. "Bruckner Höhenflüge" is the main theme. More information will follow!

Stadtgemeinde Hörsching

In October we dedicate ourselves musically once again to Bruckner. On Saturday, small concerts around the Brucknerplatz invite you to linger, and on Sunday there will be a mass.

Stadtgemeinde Hörsching

Chamber music from Schubert to Bruckner on historical instruments/under the perspective of historically informed performance practice.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Students of the ABPU

Teachers of the ABPU

Guest lecturer

What culinary preferences might Anton Bruckner have had on a Sunday morning during Advent?
This year, the students and teachers of the Jazz/Pop/Rock classes of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf will explore this question. There will be music appropriate to the season, but not only ... and perhaps a Christmas song by Bruckner ... jazzed up? One may be curious!

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Students and teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf an der Krems

Already for the 13th time the Kirchdorfer Jazztage take place in the castle Neupernstein.
In the meantime, they have become a fixture in Kirchdorf's cultural life.
Up-and-coming artists from the region, teachers from the Provincial Music School and Austrian scene musicians will be heard, and perhaps also one or two international guests. Musically, it will be colorful: from traditional jazz to many pop and groovy influences to electronic music in the context of Anton Bruckner.

The Big Band of LMS Kirchdorf plays arrangements of pieces from the album Deference To Anton Bruckner by the Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra.
Bruckner Remixed is a project of the music production classes at the Upper Austrian State Music School, which is being designed especially for the Linz STREAM Festival and will be performed at the Kirchdorf Jazz Days in 2024.

In case of bad weather, the event will take place in the Pernsteinsaal.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Students and teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf an der Krems

Big Band of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf

Bigtime feat. Helena May & Ricarda Maria

The Militärmusik Oberösterreich, the rock group Camouflash, a choir, soloists and an organist will rock the church.

Stadtmarketing Freistadt and Military Command Upper Austria

The Militärmusik Oberösterreich, the rock group Camouflash, a choir, soloists and an organist will rock the church.

City of Wels & Military Command Upper Austria

The Militärmusik Oberösterreich, the rock group Camouflash, a choir, soloists and an organist will rock the church.

Stadt RIED & Militärkommando Oberösterreich

Experience the interplay of the Militärmusik Oberösterreich, the rock group Camouflash, a choir, the organ and soloists.

Stadt Steyr & Militärkommando Oberösterreich

Masterful recordings of Anton Bruckner's symphonies and choral works

Experience and enjoy the wonderful music in the park of the castle, surrounded by the unique panorama of the Kremsmauer and our beautiful landscape of Kirchdorf.

Event period:
Every Wednesday from 10.07.2024 - 04.09.2024.
(on the last day there will be a small birthday party for Anton Bruckner).

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

The Orchestra Ennsegg plays an open air concert in the wonderful rose garden at Ennsegg Castle with arrangements of works by Anton Bruckner.

Collegium Ennsegg

Christoph Bitzinger | Director Orchestra Collegium Ennsegg

Only accessible on foot, the mysterious sound forest for Anton Bruckner hides in a fairy-tale clearing. There, it remarkably combines the experience of nature with an artificial experience of art. To the amazement of old, young and the whole family, Bruckner's works resound embedded in the crackling of branches, the rustling of leaves and the chirping of birds.
But not in their usual form, but stretched through repetition and elongation to create a month-long continuum of sound: an artful skeletonization or mummification, if not homeopathic potentization, of Bruckner's music.

Experience the Sound Forest in Kürnberg Forest from February 13 to November 10, 2024.

Peter Androsch

In the anniversary year 2024, people from Upper Austria, together with musicians from the ABPU, will send a birthday greeting to Anton Bruckner. For this purpose, people will be interviewed who are connected to Anton Bruckner by an everyday situation, an activity or a specific interest. After intensive research and preparation, the students of the university course Music Education conduct a total of eight interviews and combine them into musical collages.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Students of the ABPU

Experts of everyday life

The Composition Workshop: Composing at HEAVENLY HEIGHTS aims to be a place that offers young composers space for exciting sound experiments in and with Austria's largest church. On the occasion of the anniversaries "100 years of St. Mary's Cathedral Linz" and "200 years of Anton Bruckner", this project offers the extraordinary possibility of an intensive exchange between young composers and professional music makers as well as an exciting experience for the (sound-)artistic career.
At least one invited competition will also take place in the program architecture of Anton Bruckner 2024: At the invitation of St. Mary's Cathedral and the Diocese of Linz, between five and seven young composers born in 1998 and later.
The competition is for a composition for a vocal ensemble and up to eight voices, which is to find its place beyond the premiere in church services and concerts in Austria's largest church.
As a prelude to the composition work - for which the airy Türmerstube of the cathedral is available - cathedral organist Wolfgang Kreuzhuber, cathedral conductor Andreas Peterl and sound artist Sam Auinger will introduce the musical facets of Anton Bruckner.

Bishop Rudigier Foundation in cooperation with Dommusik Linz

Johann Hintermaier | Chairman of the Jury

Sam Auinger | member of the jury, workshop leader

Cordula Bürgi | Member of the Jury, Artistic Director of Cantando Admont

Cathedral organist Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | member of the jury, workshop leader

Domkapellmeister Andreas Peterl | member of the jury, workshop leader

Helēna Sorokina | member of the jury, ensemble member of Cantando Admont

Kreuzen Castle Foundation

Nicolas Radulescu

On Holy Thursday the choir Ad Hoc sings a mass by Bruckner in the parish church of Hörsching.

Town Parish Hörsching

The 20-year-old Anton Bruckner felt like he was in heaven in Kronstorf as a school assistant. There were people here who recognized and encouraged his talent. He was thus able to devote more time to his music and composed, among other things, the Kronstorf Mass.

Parish of Kronstorf & Voices of Kronstorf

Voices of Kronstorf under the direction of Bruno Weinberger

The KUVA Art Symposium is a format in which the curators are looking for six to seven visual artists who are willing to set up their studios on the premises of the museum for several days and to work publicly on the given theme around Anton Bruckner.
Visitors to the museum will have the opportunity to observe creative processes during the working days and to exchange ideas directly with the artists.
The works created during the symposium will be presented in the special exhibition "Anton between the worlds".
As part of the symposium and in cooperation with "Anton Bruckner 2024", a colorful afternoon will also take place in the museum garden, called "TINGEL TANGEL" for short.

KUVA ART SYMPOSIUM | CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSION | 01.09.-31.10.2023
JURY MEETING | 17.11.2023

KUVA ART SYMPOSIUM | WORKDAYS + TINGEL TANGEL
WORK DAYS | 11.-14.04. and 18.-21.04.2024
TINGEL TANGEL | 19.04.2024 | 2:00 - 8:00 pm

KUVA ART SYMPOSIUM | SPECIAL EXHIBITION
OPENING | 26.04.2024 | 7:00 pm
SPEECH | Norbert Trawöger
DURATION | 27.04.2024-26.01.2025

KUVA Leonding

The string quartet led by French violinist Rémy Ballot performed for the first time at an acclaimed debut concert as part of the St. Florian Bruckner Days 2020. As a prelude to the Bruckner Year 2024, the ensemble will play Bruckner's Quartet, which was composed during Ballot's apprenticeship years in Linz. With Kropfreiter's fist String Quartet, a work by the Florian master will be heard on the 20th anniversary of his death on September 26.

The string quartet led by French violinist Rémy Ballot performed for the first time at an acclaimed debut concert as part of the St. Florian Bruckner Days 2020. As a prelude to the Bruckner Year 2024, the ensemble will play Bruckner's Quartet, which was composed during Ballot's apprenticeship years in Linz. With Kropfreiter's fist String Quartet, a work by the Florian master will be heard on the 20th anniversary of his death on September 26.

The program idea for this concert came from a suggestion by Johann Kropfreiter, the nephew of Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter. Johann Kropfreiter served the Ballot Quartet until his unexpectedly untimely death on June 29, 2023. The commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Augustinus Franz's death thus unexpectedly also becomes an In Memoriam for Johann Kropfreiter.

Office of the Provincial Government of Upper Austria; Department of Culture

Ballot Quartet

The Ballot Quintet plays - in addition to a string quintet by Michael Haydn - the String Quintet by Anton Bruckner as well as the Intermezzo for String Quintet originally conceived for this work, offering a special insight into the history of the string quintet.

Office of the Provincial Government of Upper Austria; Department of Culture

An evening with music around Anton Bruckner

Not a whole symphony, but music that has to do with Anton Bruckner: From his models, contemporaries, students - including himself! - and his sounds as a source for new things....
Moderation: Norbert Trawöger

Opening exhibition, 6:30 p.m. - Foyer
"Bruckner Inclusive" - pictures of sound and color, directed by Manfred Schöller

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf an der Krems

The Parzival Dome in the ice caves of the Dachstein in Obertraun is one of the most remarkable auditoriums in the world, which, beyond its atmosphere and ambience, also impresses with its acoustics. In the two concerts initiated by Bad Ischl pianist Peter Brugger, it is a Schimmel glass grand piano that plays the main acoustic role amid the ice and rock formations.
For both performances, compositions will be commissioned: One under the motto Locus iste, the other in a collaboration with Ars Electronica and for a piece that incorporates electronic instruments and is accompanied by a visual staging.

International Master Classes Bad Goisern

Bill Fontana | Sound artist

Ars Electronica | Artistic Presentation

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) were two profoundly different people whose lives crossed paths several times. One became world-famous as a conductor and opera director, the other was celebrated more as a genius in his homeland. Both had their struggles to assert themselves as composers during their lifetimes. We celebrate Bruckner's 200th birthday with concerts, presentation, and a walking tour in a festival dedicated to the paradox of an ambivalent relationship.

Details follow!

ARGE Gustav Mahler Festival Steinbach

On the occasion of the anniversary year, five male choirs from the Kirchdorf district have come together to form a project choir.
Well-known works and rarities are brought to the audience's ears to remind them of their several visits to the Kremstal.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Jägerchor Inzersdorf

Kirchdorfer Liedertafel

Micheldorfer Jagag'sang

MGV Pettenbach

MGV Liedertafel Schlierbach

When Anton Bruckner visited Neufelden by carriage, the Mühlkreisbahn had just been completed and neither the Danube nor the Große Mühl were dammed.
In the now massively changed landscape between Linz and Neufelden, the coda from Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, also known as The Romantic, resounds on July 7, 2024. However, not as usual. Instead, it will be based on a score by the artist Pisaro: he has arranged this moving piece of music for the hundred or more wind musicians who will form the BrucknerBläserBrücke between Neufelden and Linz, point by point.

HEIM.ART® cultural association

Joachim Eckl | Management & Idea

Michael Pisaro-Liu | Composition

Musica sacra: J. S. Bach: High Mass in B minor BWV 232 - Collegiate Basilica Ad-libitum Choir, Ensemble Barucco, cond.: Heinz Ferlesch

St. Florian Bruckner Days

Ad libitum cho ir | choir

Ensemble Barucco

Heinz Ferlesch | Management

A cozy and fun evening for all the senses!

With zither and dulcimer music, with Anton Bruckner's favorite drink, the must and the vernissage of an exhibition on the theme of "atmosphärische FARB - TON - KLÄNGE".
The Kirchdorf Regional Music School and cider sommelier Manfred Lungenschmied present different varieties of our local cult drink. The painter KAROline Kornek walks with your pictures on the traces of Anton Bruckner in the Kremstal.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Students and teachers of the Landesmusikschule Kirchdorf

The New Year's Concert with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under its principal conductor Markus Poschner at the Brucknerhaus Linz is a good old tradition. In this country, however, tradition and innovation often go hand in hand. That's why this concert celebrates not only the local jubilarian Anton Bruckner, but also Smetana, Janáček, Schoenberg and Ives, all of whom are celebrating round birthdays. The anniversary year will be officially opened with a dance program of a special kind.

The traditional New Year's concert of the Orchester Collegium Ennsegg kicks off the Bruckner Year in Enns.

Collegium Ennsegg

Felix Hornbacher | Conductor

Folk music is young and dynamic. You can see this for yourself at the 5. Oberösterreichischen Volksmusikwettbewerb (5th Upper Austrian Folk Music Competition). Young musicians from Upper Austria show their skills and impressively prove the living further development of our traditional music. In doing so, they are also following in the footsteps of Anton Bruckner, who was actively associated with folk music in his younger years as a country violinist and dance floor musician.
On April 27, 2024, the 5th Upper Austrian Folk Music Competition will take place in Kirchdorf an der Krems. This competition sees itself as a meeting place for musicians from Upper Austria who are dedicated to traditional alpine folk music and its lived further development. The focus is on the musical experience, the joy of making music and the great variety of locally and regionally different styles and styles of playing.
The award ceremony with performances by the award-winning ensembles will take place as part of the folk music evening "5/4 hat s'Landl - Bruckner und die Volksmusik", beginning at 7:30 pm.

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Oö. Landesmusikschulwerk

Music school Kirchdorf

Pupils from the Upper Austrian Landesmusikschulen

Adalbert Stifter and Anton Bruckner have long been regarded - with alternating complementary third parties - as Upper Austria's artistic-cultural "triumvirate". For more than a decade (from 1855 to 11868), Bruckner and Stifter lived in Linz in similar circles, even in close proximity; encounters between the civil servant and poet and the organist and composer or references to each other are unusually not documented.

StifterHaus

The commemorative year of Anton Bruckner was taken as an opportunity to hold this year's Police Music Festival in Upper Austria. All nine police bands of the provincial police directorates will participate in this unique festival. On Wednesday, 05.06.2023, the respective provinces will be guests in various districts and thus bring our province to sound. The following day, on Thursday, 06.06.2023, the main square in Linz will be the venue for a unique highlight. All of Austria's police bands will march into the main square and form the highlight of the festival with a joint concert. Admission to this major event is, of course, free.

Landespolizeidirektion Oberösterreich

More information will follow!

St. Florian Bruckner Days

Martin Zeller | Management

Radio FRO, from January to the end of December 2024, at least once a month on a Thursday.
Radio FRO's 65+ department has chosen the 200th anniversary of the Genius Loci as its annual project. And it has set itself the task of illuminating the Ansfeldner from all perspectives: From the musical as well as literary, satirical, anecdotal as well as artistic. With reports and features on Upper Austria's Bruckner-places, including the memorials and museums. As well as on all possible and impossible events from all quarters of the state and in cross connection to the European Capital of Culture 2024 taking place in parallel in the Salzkammergut.

Broadcast period: January to December 2024, at least once a month on a Thursday

FRO Senior Radio, Manfred Pilsz

Three large comic projects are planned for 2024 that deal directly with the composer Anton Bruckner. More than 60 artists will deal with the experience of sound and space in comics. The comic skilfully exploits its literary affinity with written language in order to represent sound and noises pictorially. Sound words they are a typical visual feature to experience noises and sounds in a visually appealing way.
The opening will take place on 15.02.2024 at 19:00.

NEXTCOMIC Festival 2024

Katharina Acht | Curator

Gottfried Gusenbauer | Program Advisory Board

Information will follow!

Gallery and community of artists DIE FORUM Welswel

This lecture series will focus on learning and teaching in the life of Anton Bruckner. Torn between art and science, profession and vocation, theory and practice, six lectures by internationally renowned theorists and musicologists will shed light on this field of tension in Bruckner's career and teaching career and present new findings in a representative way at Bruckner University.

Anton Bruckner Private University

Music theorists and musicologists from Anton Bruckner Privat University and other universities

The installation combines organ playing and an ensemble of converted playground equipment to create a collective musical instrument in public space. By rocking and seesawing together, different organ pipes are operated - a sound space unfolds on the organ playground that makes Anton Bruckner audible and tangible in both an abstract and playful way.
The installation and composition will be developed in a processual manner over the coming months and will be set up in various locations with a Bruckner-connection in 2024.

Event period: from spring 2024

Upper Austria KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024

Online lecture: Anton Bruckner is considered one of the great musicians and composers of our homeland. Professionally, Bruckner started as a teacher like his grandfather and father. Starting from the general school development, the school situation at the time of Anton Bruckner as a pupil and as a school assistant in Windhaag bei Freistadt, in Kronsdorf bei Steyr and St. Florian will be examined in more detail: His education, his tasks and duties, the teaching conditions, his merits.
The online event will take place via Zoom. After registration the link will be sent.

Academy of folk culture

OStR. Wilhelm J. Hochreiter, Bakk. BEd. | cultural mediator, local historian, book author

Nowhere can one immerse oneself so directly in the world of Anton Bruckner's life as in Ansfelden and St. Florian. The symphony hiking trail, which has been popular for almost thirty years, connects the places of his childhood - through the forest, over the hills, on paths that Bruckner also walked. A new educational concept expands the sensory experience with the help of excitingly designed stations, playful approaches for young hikers, in-depth and remarkable, digital and analog - and lots of music.
Details will follow from spring 2024.

Gemeinde Ansfelden & Gemeinde St. Florian

The Stadtkapelle Kirchdorf cordially invites you to an atmospheric summer night concert at the Rathausplatz Kirchdorf.

In the wonderful late-evening ambience of the town hall square, the Stadtkapelle Kirchdorf once again offers its visitors a brass band concert at the highest musical level. In addition to traditional and modern philharmonic wind band literature, this time the music of Anton Bruckner will be given a very special place.
Immerse yourself in the wonderful world of music with the Stadtkapelle Kirchdorf under the musical direction of Kapellmeister Arnold Renhardt and experience an unforgettable evening under the open sky full of sonic masterpieces.

In case of bad weather the event will take place in Stadthalle (town hall).

Municipality Kirchdorf

Market community Micheldorf

Community Schlierbach

Music school Kirchdorf

Linz city center

The program revolves around the organ and the theme of improvisation at 8 venues in downtown Linz. Concerts, DJs, live performances and talks will be offered at the two-day club festival during the day and at night. Opulent musical experiences, exuberant dance sounds and a relaxed club atmosphere: STREAM CLUB traces the musical legacy of Anton Bruckner in an unconventional and fun way.

Linz Culture, Municipality of Linz

Symphony Concert Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor with the Final Fragments Moderation: Prof. Dr. Felix Diergarten, Freiburg/D Altomonte Orchestra Rémy Ballot

St. Florian Bruckner Days

Altomonte Orchestra

Rémy Ballot | Conductor

Prof. Dr. Felix Diergarten | Moderation

The striking similarity between a recurring theme from Bruckner's Fifth Symphony and a guitar riff by the White Stripes - in the song Seven Nation Army - is the godmother of this ten-piece electric guitar ensemble. In the field of tension between high culture, popular culture and avant-garde, the collective dedicates itself to that very riff. In essence, this is less a "stealing the stolen" or an act of appropriation, but rather understood in the sense of a recuperation. Experimental sound surfaces meet pointed repetitions of the Bruckner riff in variations and subtle shifts. This in a monstrous sound aesthetic, a hybrid of Anton Bruckner, White Stripes and the loud electric guitar symphonist Glenn Branca.

Event period: in the summer months 2024

Symphony No.5 Guitar Ensemble

°Com°Pose° consists of the students' own compositions and choreographies that focus on the theme of chain compositions. The idea of chaining refers to Anton Bruckner's extensive tonal exercises as a prerequisite for his creative work. After completing his studies with Simon Sechter, Bruckner reportedly "felt like a chain dog, breaking free from the chain." How does the concatenation of practice and composition relate to the practice of dance and music today?

Anton Bruckner Private University

Students of the ABPU

Hello dear elementary school children!
When Anton Bruckner was your age, he was already playing the organ. The organ is called the queen of instruments. On our journey of discovery you will learn why this is so. Together we will build a small "mini organ" and play it "tone by tone". In this way you will experience how an organ works and what sounds it can produce. Our organist Ulli will enchant us with her organ playing and thus bring us a little closer to heaven. Registration will take place from March 2024.

Parish Kronstorf & Gesunde Gemeinde Kronstorf (Power-Maxis)

Ulrike Prinz | music teacher and organist

The Bruckner year begins to vibrate already in December 2023. Bruckner composed his valid first symphony in 1865/ 66, when he was cathedral organist at Linz Cathedral (Alter Dom in Linz).

In 1868, Bruckner's first Symphony was premiered in the Redoutensaal. At this original venue, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and its principal conductor Markus Poschner will set a tremolo for the Bruckner-Year. Not only will the "First" and "Zeroth" symphonies be heard, there will be a diverse day for families, but also special educational programs that can only be experienced at the origin.

On New Year's Day 2024, the world-famous New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra can be experienced in the beautiful Sala Terrena of St. Florian Abbey.
A common going into the New Year in which also the Florian Boys' Choir will play a role.
You will find more details about this event at a later date.

Parish St. Florian

The exhibition invites you to follow Bruckner's traces in Steyr and to get to know his acquaintances. It shows how Bruckner was #HEARD in his quest for recognition and has always been celebrated in Steyr. The visitors meet the composer and #LISTEN to his works. Interactive music installations and contemporary compositions take visitors into previously unknown worlds of sound. The exhibition traces the person Anton Bruckner in Steyr and tells UN#HEARD stories.

Exhibition duration:
13.04.2024 - 30.12.2026

Stadtmuseum Steyr

Martin Ludwig Fiala | Curation

Sandra Föger | Curation

Music and dance are two arts that, despite being closely interwoven, often only come close to each other on the surface. SILK Fluegge undertakes an attempt at translation that has something else in mind: To experiment with dancers until all of Bruckner's basic musical elements have found a physical equivalent and his play of forms and rhythms has been systematically transposed into human movement.
In this way, Bruckner's 9th Symphony becomes readable on a performative level - and in this unfamiliar difference, a repetition can arise for all those familiar with his music. The goal: not to dance to Anton, but with him.

Event period: from spring 2024

SILK Fluegge

In 2024 Anton Bruckner celebrates his 200th birthday. For Upper Austria, this musician has genius status. How this genius cult has always been worked on is shown by his hairdresser Josef Stöger in Steyr, who collected the few hairs of Anton Bruckner's head already during his lifetime in the hope of being able to convert them into money as a valuable cultural asset. He probably did not succeed in doing so, but Bruckner's hair ended up in several glass medallions, which can be found in the Museum Nordico in Linz and the Stadtmuseum Steyr, among other places.

In the animated film by artist Ingrid Gaier, the hair escapes from its museum place. They dance to the music of Italian composer and sound artist Isabella Forciniti in front of a young visitor and play tricks on Anton Bruckner's bald head.
The film poses questions about collective memory, which mementos shape it and why. Who determines what is handed down and what is deleted and forgotten? How is the male-occupied concept of genius handed down and anchored? What blossoms does the culture of memory produce? And how do we change it?

Ingrid Gaier

Isabella Forciniti | Composer

Bruckner's friend and hairdresser Josef Stöger in Steyr collected Bruckner's hair, which ended up in glass medallions that can be found in the Nordico Linz and the Stadtmuseum Steyr, among other places. In the animated film by artist Ingrid Gaier, the hairs escape their museum place. They dance to the music of Italian sound artist Isabella Forciniti and play tricks on Anton Bruckner's bald head. The film poses questions about collective memory and which mementos shape it. On July 5, 2024, the Italian sound artist Isabella Forciniti plays a concert.

Prevenhuber Haus - Association for the promotion of cultural activities in Weyer, Upper Austria

Isaella Forciniti | composer, musician

Vernissage on the theme of Bruckner with the Lohnzeichnergilde in the course of the Next Comic Con Festival.

Anton Bruckner Center

Lohnzeichnergilde | Artists