Im Auftrag der Zarin - Musikfest Bremen

In the organizer's words:

Final concert with the
participants of the music festival atelier "Katharinas Hofmusik"
Chamber choir of the Stadtkantorei Jever (conductor: Klaus Wedel)
Alfredo Bernardini and Alessandro Quarta Conductor

Program:
Works by Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Paisiello, Vincenzo Manfredini, Domenico Cimarosa, Giuseppe Millico and Niccolò Piccinni
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 55 in E flat major Hob. I:55 ("The Schoolmaster")

As the closest relative of the extinct Anhalt-Zerbst line, Tsarina Catherine II was formally sovereign of the dominion of Jever from 1793. In distant St. Petersburg, where she ruled as an enlightened absolutist autocrat from 1762, she also specifically promoted the arts in order to make the still young residence equal to other European capitals. Music was of central importance for the staging of court life according to the Western model. For Catherine the Great, only the best were good enough. In 1765, she released Baldassare Galuppi from his prestigious contract at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, and later other important composers such as Giovanni Paisiello and Domenico Cimarosa were also lured to her court. In continuation of last year's program, a new selection of arias, duets and choral works will be prepared with the atelier participants and the chamber choir of the Stadtkantorei Jever, showing how the Tsarina used Italian opera to turn the city on the Neva into a cultural center of European standing.

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