Where the world revolves around Schumann
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Robert Schumann House Entering the house on Zwickau’s market-place where Robert Schumann was born, visitors discover an extensive collection of valuable documents and objects from the life and work of the composer and his wife Clara. The biggest treasure is the memorial room with furniture and the grand piano of Schumann’s later wife, Clara Wieck. Visitors from all over the world admire the Research and Memorial Center as an international institution for the nurture of Schumann’s legacy. In the stylish concert hall, music by Schumann and his contemporaries is regularly performed. Tickets:
Summer Swing with Schumann Dates: The composer looks down amicably from his monument on Zwickau’s market-place, at whose base fans of Schumann and others meet for the third time this year for Summer Swing. Light swing music and other jazz is accompanied by traditional and hearty food. Summer Swing is a small but demanding event and an insider’s tip that is no longer just for insiders. Information:
German Standard Dance ChampionshipsDate: The oldest dancing club in eastern Germany, TSC Silberschwan Zwickau, celebrates its 60th anniversary by holding the German Standard Dance Championships in Zwickau. The ‘Stadthalle’ event hall will host its first top-class dance gala, featuring competitive dancing, shows and entertainment.
Zwickau Music Festival: A festival for Robert SchumannDates: The event takes place against the backdrop of the musical instruments of Robert Schumann, who was born in Zwickau in 1810: piano, cello and flute. The Robert Schumann House in Zwickau has the largest collection of exhibits connected with Robert and Clara Schumann in the world, including several important historical keyboard instruments, such as the grand piano that the nine-year-old Clara Wieck played at her debut in Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Concert Hall in 1828. The event opening the festival is a concert on 8 June given by Plauen-Zwickau Theater and the Robert Schumann Conservatory. The highlight of the festival is Schumann’s Piano Concerto op. 54 played on historical instruments and featuring hammer clavier specialist Tobias Koch. Tickets:
European Festival of Wind MusicEvents The European Festival of Wind Music of the Miners Band of the Spa Town of Schlema, with renowned orchestras from all over Europe and even the USA, takes place in the spa town of Schlema, which, as if by a miracle, has risen again in a new radiance after years of destructive uranium mining. The spectrum and quality of this musical event are considered unique in the whole of Europe. 2007 sees two big stages with 60 concerts featuring 20 orchestras over three days. Tickets: Central Saxon Theater The theater presents five operas from five centuries in Freiberg, in Saxony’s oldest civic theater building, and in Döbeln. The highlight of the season is Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s ‘Medea’, an operatic rarity from the French Baroque. It is performed as part of the St Nicholas Festival from 30 June to 12 July 2007. Ore Mountains Christmas in the Aue Culture House Dates: Not only does Saxony have the oldest Christmas market in Germany, the Dresden Striezel Market, it also has the Ore Mountains with their many Christmas traditions, which are rooted deeply in mining. People wanting to spend Advent in the home of nutcracker and other Christmas decorations will enjoy the Ore Mountains Christmas in the Culture House of the town of Aue. The Ore Mountains Ensemble of Aue manages to conjure up all of the traditions on stage. But Christmas is also a special experience elsewhere in the Ore Mountains. Tickets:
ArtmontanDates: In 2007, artmontan continues to fulfill musical dreams in extraordinary locations influenced by mining. In February Dixieland can be heard under ground in the pumped storage works of Markersbach. March sees symphony music from the Ore Mountains Philharmonic and thunderous drum-beats from the Taiko-Formation Tentekko in Aue, celebrating the world of Japanese cherry blossom festivals, while in May the power station in Schwarzenberg features the group Apparatschik as a reminder of the White Nights of St Petersburg. September features Indian Summer at the horse-capstan of Johanngeorgenstadt with Canadian music, and in December the polar lights are lit with the music theater Zenga in Schwarzenberg. Tickets:
Freiberg Bach Festival and Gottfried Silbermann Competition Dates: Freiberg Bach Festival: 21–30 September 2007 The historical town of Freiberg, whose silver resources founded the wealth of Saxony, hosts the 82nd Bach Festival in September 2007. The festival intends to trace the connection between such pioneers of music-making in the 16th century as Christoph Demantius and Andreas Hammerschmidt, via the wedding of Baroque music and Johann Sebastian Bach, right up to the modern era. The 2007 Gottfried Silbermann Competition also follows this basic tenet, and finishes on the evening before the Bach Festival. Gottfried Silbermann, the famous instrument-maker from Saxony, built his organs and over 200 other keyboard instruments in his workshop in Freiberg. Information: Festival of Early Music in the Ore MountainsDates: The Ore Mountains with their many traditions also have a rich musical power. Outstanding composers, singers, conductors and instrumentalists have found their way from here into the world of music. The Festival of Early Music in the Ore Mountains leads these artists back to their homes, and its events have been entertaining the inhabitants of the Ore Mountains and visitors from all over Germany and beyond since 1995. Plus: they unite music with the beauty of the Ore Mountains landscape. Tickets:
Symphony Concerts in the New World This series of concerts takes place in the most beautiful Art Nouveau concert hall in Saxony, the 1903 ‘New World’ Concert and Ball House in Zwickau. In 2007, internationally acclaimed soloists are performing a total of eight concerts. The highlight within the framework of the Zwickau Music Festival takes place on 14 July 2007 with the eighth symphony concert featuring the pianist Andreas Pistorius and works by Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Tickets:
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