MAHLER FESTIVAL: Chamber orchestra concert

Tscho Theissing & Co.
Gerald Preinfalk, clarinets and saxophone
Lorenz Raab, trumpet and flugelhorn
Bettina Gradinger, violin
Natalija Isaković, violin
Ernst Weissensteiner, double bass
Maria Reiter, accordion

During his lifetime, Mahler was repeatedly accused of adopting trivial musical gestures in his symphonic works. Marches, operettas, fairground music, military calls, waltzes and ländler are all conspicuously frequent. Today they are a trademark of his style, but back then they irritated a society that was unfamiliar with Mahler's broad integration of different musical genres as an expression of the diversity of life. What did these original genres sound like? How did Mahler adapt them and how do we interpret them today?

The Viennese theater musicians, who have been shaped by their many years of collaboration with Michael Heltau and are known for their musical approach to music of all genres, will address these questions with visual and audible pleasure under the direction and in the arrangements of Tscho Theissing.

10th Gustav Mahler Festival in Steinbach am Attersee: The 3rd Symphony
The Gustav Mahler Festival 2026 in Steinbach am Attersee takes place from June 21 to 28, 2026 and revolves around the composer's third symphony.
Further information: www.mahler.steinbach.at