festival

Encounter II

Vienna at the Center: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Culture, 1762–1938
with Ara Guzelimian

Friday, July 30, 7:30 p.m.
Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $42 adult; $20 student

For nearly two hundred years, Vienna was at the very center of musical life in Europe, peaking first with the confluence of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert and then again in the early twentieth century with Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. At the season’s second Encounter, Ara Guzelimian explores the many fascinating intersections of culture and society underlying this dominance, as well as the twilight of that influence in the tragedy of World War II.

Prelude Performance*
5:30 p.m., Stent Family Hall
Free Admission

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Image: Fritz L’Allemand (1812–1866). Court Banquet in the Gardens of Schönbrunn Palace on the Occasion of the Anniversary of the Military Order of Theresa, 1865. Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria/The Bridgeman Art Library