The Sächsische Staatskapelle is honoring the longstanding Dresden General Music Director Ernst von Schuch on his 175th birthday with a special concert in the Kulturpalast.
The Austrian Franz Welser-Möst will return to the orchestra's podium on November 6, as the Staatskapelle announced on Tuesday.
Von Schuch had shaped the Dresden Opera and the Royal Chapel for more than 40 years.
Dresden - He was born in Graz on November 23, 1846 and died in Dresden on May 10, 1914.
In Dresden he founded the Strauss tradition.
Richard Strauss and Schuch were friends of artists.
Strauss (1864-1949) maintained a close relationship with the Semperoper and the former court orchestra.
He had nine of his 15 operas premiered in Dresden, and he dedicated his “Alpine Symphony” to the court orchestra.
A work by Strauss will now be heard at the special concert - the tone poem “Don Quixote” with Norbert Anger and Sebastian Herberg as orchestral soloists.
In the second part, waltzes and dances of the Viennese Strauss dynasty are performed.
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