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Paavo Järvi with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
Paavo Järvi (Foto: Kaupo Kikkas)
Paavo Järvi with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Paavo Järvi Music Director
Julia Kleiter Sopran
Wiebke Lehmkuhl Alt
Maximilian Schmitt Tenor
Christof Fischesser Bass
Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Philipp Ahmann Einstudierung
Paavo Järvi Music Director
Julia Kleiter Sopran
Wiebke Lehmkuhl Alt
Maximilian Schmitt Tenor
Christof Fischesser Bass
Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Philipp Ahmann Einstudierung
Ludwig van Beethoven «Missa solemnis» D-Dur op. 123
Einführung
23. May 2027, 16.15 Uhr
Kleine Tonhalle
Prices CHF 170 / 135 / 110 / 85 / 40
Beethoven's "Missa solemnis" was first performed (in part) in Vienna's Kärntnerthortheater in 1824, on the same evening that his Symphony No. 9 was premiered. Even today, this work is performed almost exclusively in concert halls: although it is a solemn mass, it goes beyond the liturgical framework. Although Beethoven studied the mass text and older settings intensively, he did not compose this work for a pious community, but for the Viennese public. He wanted to use all the means at his disposal to "awaken religious feelings and make them last", as he put it in a letter. The fact that one reviewer subsequently hailed his "divine musical art" is perfectly fitting.