Concert of the prestigious Haydn Orchestra of Trento and Bolzano conducted by maestro Alessandro Bonato.
Couples dancing in ecstasy with their bodies in close contact instead of the modest minuet performed on tiptoe by the aristocracy; dizzying raptures instead of stylized appearances. At the beginning of the 19th century, the waltz conquers the ballrooms, and in the winter of 1814, during the Congress of Vienna, it also reaches the upper class. “In the Viennese waltz, one sees the man accompanying the woman in time, lifting her in dizzying leaps while she surrenders to the sweet and vertiginous enchantment, with an expression in her eyes that enhances her beauty. However, one also perceives the power exercised by the waltz. It only takes a few measures for faces to light up, eyes to sparkle, and a joyful tremor to flow through all present,” reports Count Auguste Louis Charles de La Garde-Chambonas. The couple dance spins the legs and heads of the Viennese. Johann Strauss (son), the star of the New Year's concert, makes the waltz the popular music of the 19th century – and himself a superstar. Among the most famous waltzes is the catchy “The Blue Danube,” the quintessence of the lightness of the Viennese waltz that will also excite late Romantic composers. Brahms is said to have commented on the orchestral version of the “Danube Waltz” with the terse phrase: “Unfortunately, it is not mine.”
TICKETS
Full: € 20
Over 65: € 15
Under 30: € 8
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