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Anton Bruckner: dream and nightmare

Otto Lechner and music student Samuel Lonsing rehearsing the work.

(Bild: Josef Lichtenberger)

To be honest: for many, Bruckner is a nightmare! But you can turn him into a modern dream. The Linz Music School dares to experiment: young soloists perform a major concert in the Brucknerhaus together with the music school's symphony orchestra.

"Bruckner's music is unplayable for most music students, even young people find it difficult to listen to a symphony - it's a nightmare for them," says Christian Denkmaier, musician and director of the Linz Music School, frankly and honestly. But in the anniversary year of the great composer, the music school wants to turn this "nightmare" into a dream.

This is to be achieved with new compositions that have been commissioned - we have reported on them. These will now be performed at the concert "Anton Bruckner. Dream and Nightmare" on Thursday, June 27, at the Brucknerhaus in Linz (tickets 15 euros).

Tanja Glinsner (left) with Riccarda Fuchs at the organ

(Bild: Josef Lichtenberger)

Reviving Bruckner's music
Young soloists and the music school's symphony orchestra will perform works by Tanja Glinsner, Julia Lacherstorfer, Johanna Doderer and Kurt Schwertsik.

The well-known accordionist Otto Lechner also composed for the concert in the Brucknerhaus, he says: "A delightfully risky task. In terms of content, my symphonic poem refers to a text by Franz Kafka called 'Der Jäger Gracchus', a character who cannot be dead and cannot be alive. This is a parable for the difficulty of dealing with past artists, dreams and nightmares."