WIEN MODERN 36
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
MARIA GSTÄTTNER: FANFARE
Concert
ERÖFFNUNGSKONZERT WIEN MODERN
PETER JAKOBER: SAITENRAUM IIGEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS: 11.000 SAITEN
MARK ANDRE: RWH· 1–4
FESTIVAL
New music for the city
With around a month of events at countless locations all over the city, Wien Modern is the biggest festival for contemporary arts music in Austria and one of the biggest of its kind worldwide. It was founded in 1988 at the initiative of Claudio Abbado, conductor and the general music director of the city of Vienna at the time. Since then, it takes place every year in November in Vienna.
Exactly what is to be expected from "contemporary arts music" and from a festival with the name "Wien Modern", which is at odds with all the clichés of Vienna?