Revolutionary in word, image and sound – Courier

W he celebrates his birthday a conductor? Of course, on the podium and with music. Two time passes Nikolaus Harnoncourt this weekend the Concentus Musicus Vienna Musikverein, because a life without music was and is unthinkable for the original sound pioneer.

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On the set: Harnoncourt scrolls in the family album – Photo: ORF / Werner Kmetitsch

What kind of music but also the militant (“A Maestro is an Italian barber.”) has shaped conductors have influenced his life sustainably which events showing a new documentary by ROMY Prize winner Günter Schilhan. “Nikolaus Harnoncourt – The Music of My Life” is a very personal, about 45 minutes portrait of the artist, which is part of a large Thread gravity

Berlin, Graz, Vienna, the encounter with his wife, Alice, the way the orchestra of the Symphony Orchestra as a cellist, the local exit, the establishment of the Concentus, the initial success, the hostility, the battle with authorities, the conducting engagements, the hymns, the legends – all this has discussed with Harnoncourt and dressed in beautiful, partly unknown images Schilhan; To see witty statements of the conductor included.

For the first time the documentary today, Saturday, around in 3sat to ORF 2 follows the film at 21.20 clock Sunday at 9.05 clock, ORF III then takes over on December 7 at prime time at 20.15 clock. Where ORF III the whole sunday excluding Nikolaus Harnoncourt dedicated. As part of “experience special stage” it starts at 9.30 clock; in addition to a documentary about the rehearsals for Mozart-Da Ponte cycle in 2013 at the Theater an der Wien are with “Cosi fan tutte”, “Bluebeard”, “L ‘Orfeo”, “Nozze di Figaro” and “Idomeneo” is equal to five . to see opera records

A pioneer

ORF II shows again on Sunday nor the documentaries “Mission Mozart” (9. 55 clock) and “Nikolaus Harnoncourt – World Star with Styrian Note “(18.25 clock); Radio E 1 starts on Saturday a center of gravity is irregularly continued until 10 January 2015. And in the Residenz-Verlag is a new book recently published: “Nikolaus Harnoncourt, it was always about music…”

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