Irwin Hoffman has appeared as a guest in concerts of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra almost every year since 2007. Born in 1924, but with a youthful vigour and energy that belies his age, he is a conductor whose worldly wisdom renders his performances authentic and always true to life. A musician with an experimental spirit, he has presented works unfamiliar to Hungarian concert-goers on more than one occasion, but always manages to win over his audience. Although he has chosen two frequently p...erformed and popular works, he will surely introduce a new interpretation of the music once again.
Mozart's final symphony - the 41st in all - represents a summation of all that the great composer achieved in the field of symphonic music. It is a perfect masterpiece, to which posterity rightly attached the name of the chief deity of Roman mythology. Brahms's Symphony No. 1 is a no less wonderful work, only here we encounter not a summary of a life's oeuvre but one of the key works of the composer's mature creative period. It is well known that Brahms felt profound respect and humility towards his composing predecessors - among them Beethoven - and so it was that his first symphony spent some 20 years in gestation. The result is a magnificent work which unmistakeably bows before Beethoven, and yet is a piece of Romanticism through and through.
Presented by: MÁV Symphony Orchestra Foundation
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