7. Sinfoniekonzert

In the organizer's words:

. Symphony concert

THE DREAM OF THE ORIENT
Music for emperors and sultans, or how Europe and the Ottoman Empire created their counterparts.

For a long time, the Ottoman Empire represented a direct military threat to the European powers. It was only after this danger had been defused with the end of the siege of Vienna in 1683 that the West was able to use the East as a mirror image, projection screen and counterpart for artistic creations and political and philosophical counter-models. Sarband and the Oldenburg State Orchestra travel to the imaginary and the real Orient with orientalist occidental works, such as Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", but also authentic Ottoman musical tradition from the Sultans' Seraglio in Istanbul. There they find the waltz dreams from the pen of the "Turkish Beethoven" Dede Efendi, which yearn for the western counterpart and encounter the orientalist "German Dances" by Mozart and Beethoven in a musical hall of mirrors.