“Our Baсhiana” is a chamber music festival that continues the “Bach-Marathon” annual project
The Lviv National Philharmonic organizes this festival during the celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday. Commonly, most of the world celebrates his birthday on March 21, according to the old calendar, because the Protestant Church in Germany embraced the Gregorian calendar in 1700, with the agreement that until 1699 all dates remained valid.
1890. In a small Hungarian gymnasium, Ernő Dohnányi, a composer and pianist, performed his first solo concert. Now his music confidently emerges through the new world.
1930, Tokyo. Toru Takemitsu, the first famous Japanese composer and stubborn avant-garde artist, was born.
1942. German concentration camp. Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, who is returning from oblivion only nowadays, died of tuberculosis.
1943. Paris. During this time, the patriarch of contemporary Hungarian music, György Kurtág, wrote his opus No. 1, the String Quartet, which marked his recovery from severe depression.
1944. Lviv Philharmonic. During the war in the centre of Europe, we have the opportunity to listen to the music of a famous contemporary, Yurii Laniuk from Lviv.
What had happened before all these clearly unrelated events?
1685. In the town of Eisenach in Germany, the youngest of a large family of city musician, the outstanding and famous Johann Sebastian Bach, was born.
