Innsbruck University Orchestra

The Innsbruck University Orchestra once again invites you to its end-of-semester concert with a thoroughly romantic programme. With the "Sphärenklänge Walzer" by Josef Strauss, the younger brother of the famous Johann Strauss (Junior), the concert begins with a lyrical introduction that represents the spherical music that gives the programme its title, before the waltz develops in a lively Viennese style. The programme continues with Georges Bizet's famous LʼArlesienne Suite No. 2, which originated from the incidental music for the play of the same name and draws in part on Provençal melodies. The stormy Farandole, the final piece of the suite, became particularly well known. In the second part of the concert, the orchestra will perform Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony, which he himself called the "Spring Symphony". Schumann sketched the symphony in a "creative frenzy" in just four days in January 1941, during the happiest time of his life - finally married to the pianist Clara Wieck, whom he had adored for years and whose father had prevented the marriage for years. This thoroughly romantic symphony reflects this happy mood of optimism in Schumann's life.