Chamber music always played an important role in the Mendelssohn family. And from the very beginning: Even the seven-year-old Felix was trained in ensemble playing by the Parisian violinist Pierre Baillot, and Mendelssohn’s earliest compositions include several pieces for violin and piano as well as a series of scholastic fugues writt…

The attunement for people with dementia will take place at this matinee. More infos here. Chamber music always played an important role in the Mendelssohn family. And from the very beginning: Even the seven-year-old Felix was trained in ensemble playing by the Parisian violinist Pierre Baillot, and Mendelssohn’s earliest compositions …

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was undoubtedly a child prodigy. And from an early age, so to speak: The 13-year-old’s compositions caused such a sensation in the Viennese music world that Gustav Mahler declared him a genius without further ado. Later, forced into exile in the USA following Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany, he becam…

The violoncellos of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester: Heiner Reich | Samuel Niederhauser | Sebastian Diezig | Joachim Müller-Crepon | Beat Feigenwinter | Jonas Vischi | Ruth Eichenseher | Tiphaine Lucas So far and yet so close. The cellists of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester will take you on a sound journey around the globe. When eight cellos …

This matinée is traditionally performed by the academy members of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. In the 2024/25 season these are: Mátyás Holló: percussion Rosa Roquéz Lopez: double bass Sara Cuadrado Pérez: viola Tiphaine Lucas: violoncello Ulysse Othenin-Girard: oboe Maurin Jenni: horn Philomène Michel: Violin in the company of: José Bati…

One might almost think that Mozart invented the genre of the piano quartet, as there were hardly any models worth mentioning at the time. Accordingly, audiences in Vienna were little prepared for such a work, and somehow this still seems to be the case today: In any case, the two piano quartets occupy a rather special position in MozartR…

Giovanni Bottesini, whose 200th birthday was in December 2021, is probably the most famous double bass player in music history. After training on the violin and viola, he entered the Milan Conservatory at the age of 13. However, as there were only places available for bassoon and double bass, the talented boy was forced to switch from the v…

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1887, Heitor Villa-Lobos is considered the father of Brazilian music. Depending on how you count them, he wrote between 800 and 2000 works, of which the large cycles became the best known: his “Brazilian Bachiana” (Bachianas Brasileiras Nos. 1 to 9) on the one hand, and Choros Nos. 1 to 14, his homage to the street…

The sixth Chamber Music Matinee of the season brings together Baroque drive, Classical elegance, tango-infused lyricism and the sharp wit of 20th-century music. Musicians of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester present a varied programme featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, W. A. Mozart, Astor Piazzolla and Dmitri Shostakovich. At the heart …

Like the entire season, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester’s chamber music matinées are dedicated to the Beethoven year. The theme “Beethoven’s Vienna” nevertheless allows for numerous connections to other composers across a wide time span. This begins in 1792, when the 22-year-old Beethoven moved from Bonn to Vienna. His patron Count Waldstein…