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24 February – 3 March 2012, Vienna/Austria
Organized by
the "Joseph Haydn" Institute for Chamber Music and Special Ensembles of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in cooperation with the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt.
Preface
In this year 2012 the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition will take place for the fifth time – and hereby celebrates it’s first jubilee!
We are delighted that we may celebrate this anniversary at one of Vienna’s most beautiful historic venues:
For the first time the final rounds of the competition will in 2012 be held at the historic “Schlosstheater” of Schloß Schönbrunn.
This theater not only offers a beautiful setting for our finalists and our audience, but is also steeped in history:
as a choirboy Joseph Haydn once sang here for the empress Maria Theresia and in 1777 conducted the guest-performance of the orchestra and opera-troupe of the Esterházy court in Schönbrunn.
This international competition sets up a memorial to the unique personality and oeuvre of Joseph Haydn, one of the great Austrian composers and the father of chamber music.
In choosing the repertoire for the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, we have consciously placed great emphasis on chamber music from both the First and the Second Viennese School.
Importance is to be laid not only on a timely consideration of these periods and the bridge between them, but, even more significantly, upon the challenge of composing new music of high quality.
Therefore we also encourage young composers of our University to enrich the contemporary chamber music repertoire by commissioning them to compose new works.
May I express my special thanks to all our loyal as well as our newly found partners and supporters and especially to our University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna – they all make it possible to offer a stage to young, aspiring ensembles in Vienna, the city of music, as well as to give an initial-aid for the beginning of their international careers!
My cordial thanks to my colleagues from the organising committee for the wonderful collaboration and to the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, who has been a strong and trusty partner from the first competition in 2001!
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Vienna and to an exciting musical competition 2012!
o. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Avedis KOUYOUMDJIAN
Dean for instrumental studies of the University of Music und Performing Arts Vienna
President of the Jury
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