Le Salon de musique

“My Prague people understand me...,” famously boasted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of his Czech audience. Transcriptions and paraphrases from the pens of Czech composers, intended for performance in music salons, also served to popularise the works of this peerless genius and visionary. For example, the arrangement of The Marriage of Figaro for string quintet was very likely performed in the castles of the Clam-Gallas family. And it was from a manuscript from the Count’s library that the Polish cellist Jarosław Thiel chose two pieces for the concert at Strahov Monastery.
 
Under his artistic direction, the soloists of the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra will perform a quintet by another unrivalled great – Ludwig van Beethoven. The highlight of the programme will be a string sextet composed by a representative of Polish musical romanticism, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński. Critics of the time wrote that the composition “is one of the best works of its kind”! The composition, interwoven with national elements, takes full advantage of the sound and technical possibilities of the instruments and its brilliant finale gives all the musicians the opportunity to showcase their virtuosity.