Veranstaltungen Bruckner-Jahr 2024

Upper Austria's greatest composer is celebrating his birthday - and we're having a party, too!

In 2024, the Brucknerhaus Linz has two reasons to celebrate: the 200th birthday of its name patron Anton Bruckner and its own 50th anniversary. This anniversary will be celebrated with a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which will perform Bruckner's 7th Symphony under Zubin Mehta - as it did exactly 50 years ago, albeit with Herbert von Karajan at the podium. At the time, Karajan summed up his impressions of the architecture and acoustics of the Brucknerhaus with the words: "An experience of intoxicating beauty.

However, not only the Brucknerhaus Linz is participating in the program for Bruckner's 200th birthday, but also the other houses of LIVA, i.e. the Posthof Linz, the children's cultural center Kuddelmuddel and LIVA Sport are contributing exciting projects, thus guaranteeing diversity and unusual approaches to Bruckner.

The Posthof Linz is embarking on a search for Next Bruckner in its own concert series among young songwriters, has commissioned the famous São Paulo Dance Company to enter into a dialogue with Bruckner's music, and is premiering Paulus Hochgatterer's commissioned work Der schlafende Wal (The Sleeping Whale).

Also a commissioned work is Der merkwürdige Herr Bruckner, a puppet theater piece that the Kuddelmuddel Children's Cultural Center at the Brucknerhaus Linz hopes will introduce children to Bruckner the man.

Sports enthusiasts will not miss out either - LIVA Sport and the Linz Danube Marathon invite you to an enjoyable run on the Anton Bruckner running course on September 15, starting at the Alter Dom and finishing at the Brucknerhaus Linz! Following the competition, the newly designed running course will be opened to the public as a unique, free-to-use, permanent "symphony of running."

In the Brucknerhaus itself, the New Year's Concert of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz on January 1 will kick off the Bruckner Year 2024. Highlights of the International Bruckner Festival 2024 will be concerts by the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst on Bruckner's birthday in Ansfelden (September 4) and by the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann (September 19) in the Brucknerhaus. In addition, all eleven Bruckner symphonies will be heard in their original sound in a cycle - an experience that only the Bruckner city of Linz can offer.

Tip: For all events of the Brucknerhaus*, early bookers can save 15 % up to and including March 31, 2023! Reserve your tickets for the 2024 jubilee year online now - the price will be reduced automatically in the ticketshop.

You can find all other program items for the Bruckner Year 2024 at anton-bruckner-2024.at

 

*except for the New Year's Concert on January 1, 2024 and Birthday Concert on March 23, 2024.

 

Mo 1 Jan 24
16:00 Main Hall Brucknerhaus Linz

BRUCKNER YEAR 2024

New Year's
Concert 2024

To start the Bruckner Year, Markus Poschner conducts in a dance programme with compositions by Bruckner and others

Sa 23 Mar 24
19:30 Main Hall Brucknerhaus Linz

BRUCKNER YEAR 2024

Zubin Mehta &
Vienna Philharmonic

At the festive concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Brucknerhaus Linz, Bruckner's 7th Symphony will be heard - as it was at the opening of the house in 1974.

Tu 10 Sep 24
19:30 Main Hall Brucknerhaus Linz

BRUCKNER YEAR 2024

Philippe Herreweghe &
Orchestre des
Champs-Élysées

Exaggerating - Bruckner's 8th Symphony in its original form

Th 12 Sep 24
19:30 Main Hall Brucknerhaus Linz

BRUCKNER YEAR 2024

Jordi Savall &
Le Concert
des Nations

Experimenting - Bruckner's "Annulled" Symphony (the so-called "Nullte") in its original form

Th 19 Sep 24
19:30 Main Hall Brucknerhaus Linz

BRUCKNER YEAR 2024

Christian Thielemann & Vienna Philharmonic

Mendelssohn's 3rd Symphony, the "Scottish", and Bruckner's 'First' in the "Viennese version" guarantee great symphonic music.

Th 26 Sep 24
19:30 Main Hall Brucknerhaus Linz

BRUCKNER YEAR 2024

Pablo Heras-Casado &
Anima Eterna Brugge

Appropriating - Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in its original form

Fr 4 Oct 24
19:30 Main Hall Brucknerhaus Linz

BRUCKNER YEAR 2024

Kent Nagano &
Concerto Köln

Transfiguring - Bruckner's 4th Symphony in its original form

Su 6 Oct 24
18:00 Main Hall Brucknerhaus Linz

BRUCKNER YEAR 2024

Jérémie Rhorer &
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie

Liberate - Bruckner's 7th Symphony in its original form

Th 10 Oct 24
19:30 Main Hall Brucknerhaus Linz

BRUCKNER YEAR 2024 

François-Xavier Roth
& Les Siècles

Deifying - Bruckner's 9th Symphony in its original form