Lwówek Śląski in the arms of the muses. The activity of prince Constantin Hohenzollern’s private orchestra in the period of 1852–1869.
Journal Title: Notes Muzyczny - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 9
Abstract
Prince Constantine (Friedrich Wilhelm Constantine) of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, a great music lover, aimed to create a good orchestra at his court. In the 1840s, he had already had a decent ensemble conducted by Thomas Täglichsbeck, which gave regular concerts in Hechingen. Villa Eugenia, the prince’s palace at that time, hosted numerous prominent figures from the world of music, first of all Franz Liszt; this acquaintance had a great influence on Constantine. After he abdicated and moved to his dominions in Silesia, in 1852 the prince decided to build a little palace with a concert hall for three hundred people in Lwówek Śląski (then German Löwenberg in Schlesien). Free weekly performances of the orchestra in the winter season (from November to April) in a provincial town of five thousand dwellers were something unheard of, so they soon attracted attention of music lovers. The artistic life of Lwówek was frequently described in the press in Wrocław, Leipzig and Berlin, it was also mentioned in foreign magazines. People praised the excellence of the orchestra, which achieved the peak of its capacities under the new chapelmaster Max Seifriz. He worked systematically on new repertoire and was particularly eager to perform compositions by young composers of the so-called New German School. The ensemble’s fame was consolidated by concerts whose guest conductors were the stars of the world of music of that time, i.e., Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner. The activity of the orchestra and the time of musical glory of Lwówek came to a sudden end when prince Constantine died in 1869.<br/><br/>
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Aleksandra Milcarz
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