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Beethoven completed the symphony in 1812. The premiere 1813 at the height of the wars of liberation was a patriotic event and an enormous success. Wagner’s bon mot of this Symphony as the “apotheosis of dance” is legendary. Thae fusion of the symphony with a dance performance would certainly have been in the spirit of the grand master of this Gesamtkunstwerk. 

“Currentzis compares the 7th Symphony to classical, ancient architecture […] the original sound orchestra musicAeterna plays with an almost exemplary transparency.” Deutschlandfunk

Gustav Mahler himself, being one of the most influential conductors of the 20th century, redefined this role in the performance process. Conducting his own compositions, Mahler the conductor created them as much as Mahler the composer. Anyone who stands at the conductor's podium and opens the score of a symphony recreates this musical cosmos anew. Teodor Currentzis and the musicAeterna orchestra have been performing Mahler's symphonies on various stages for many years, and the Fifth Symphony has become one of the most prominent musical phenomena in this series.

Alongside Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Alexey Retinsky's composition "Anaphora" will be performed. It was written for the same orchestral lineup and is part of a new musicAeterna project in which contemporary composers engage in a dialogue with the great masters of the past. Retinsky is the first composer-in-residence at the House of Radio in St. Petersburg, a graduate of the Zurich University of the Arts, and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (under the guidance of Professor Beat Furrer). Retinsky's works are frequently performed in concert halls in Russia and Europe.